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"Slaughterhouse-Five", 2003.
An analysis of Kurt Vonnegut's novel, "Slaughterhouse-Five".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper analyzes how the Tralfamadorian view that all creatures and plants are machines, relates to the central themes in Kurt Vonnegut's novel," Slaughterhouse-Five". It also looks at the main theme of the novel as the absurdity of war and death.
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"Slaughterhouse Five", 2004.
A review of the novel "Slaughterhouse Five" written by Kurt Vonnegut.
1,351 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses the book, "Slaughterhouse Five" written by Kurt Vonnegut , depicting his experiences in World War II. The paper describes Vonnegut's usage of the Dresden bombing as a backdrop to his anti-war novel. The paper examines how the experience of living through this attack turned Vonnegut into a pacifist and motivated him to write this novel.
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"As a member of what has been called the "greatest generation", Kurt Vonnegut set out to write a novel about his experiences in World War II, which would stand as an unsympathetic depiction of the Dresden bombing. He achieved this goal in what is considered his greatest novel. Written in the turbulent year of 1969, it is an account of other turbulent times. The year 1969 sees the United States involved in what has become a very unpopular war. After the Tet Offensive the prior year, public opinion has turned against the war, but the killing will continue for several more years. On the domestic front, the civil rights movement has culminated in a frenzy of political assassinations and riots."
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"Slaughterhouse Five", 2004.
A review of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" and how it relates to Michael Foucault's theory of power systems.
835 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper contends that French philosopher, Michael Foucault's post-structuralist theory uncovers a new dimension of power and domination in modern culture and presents a new literary criticism, which is observed throughout Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five". The paper employs Foucauldian criticism to Vonnegut's book and illustrates the significant and subversive relationship between knowledge and power.
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"Theories about modern society have been significantly influenced by the study of the great French thinker, Michael Foucault. One of his fundamental studies examines modern power systems, of which his most important premise analyzes the relationship between power and knowledge. Foucault introduces to society power's mechanisms and wants us to know how power works on us. He believes modern power is veiled, ubiquitous, and subversive, thus power's efficient operation."
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?Slaughterhouse Five?, 2006.
A critical review of the significance of Tralfamadore in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five".
1,702 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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Kurt Vonnegut's novel, "Slaughterhouse Five", focuses on Billy Pilgrim, a war veteran who uses time and space travel to escape the haunting memories of his experience at Dresden. Pilgrim creates a planet known as Tralfamadore, an imaginary world. The inhabitants of this planet, the Tralfamadorians, introduce him to a deterministic universe. This paper focuses on the impact of adopting such an approach to life with supporting remarks from various critics.
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"Pilgrim, the protagonist, finds the Tralfamadorian's philosophy appealing and adopts a perspective of life where his actions are meaningless in changing fate. This is a passive reaction to life's various problems, issues and events as they free the person of responsibility. The Tralfamadorian's philosophy that "all moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist" is a derivative of Pilgrim's changing mind-set (Vonnegut 27). Because of this philosophy, Pilgrim develops an apathetic characteristic that he uses to shrug off "meaningless" moments. Furthermore, the philosophy brings about the sacrifice of free will that allows him to see the beauty behind a determinist perspective."
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Kurt Vonnegut?s "Slaughterhouse Five", 2003.
Examines Kurt Vonnegut?s "Slaughterhouse Five", or "The Children's Crusade" (1969), as a lesson in geopolitical history.
1,123 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper provides an overview of Kurt Vonnegut and his book, "Slaughterhouse Five", or "The Children's Crusade", from the perspective of its inadvertent contribution to increasing the level of overall geopolitical awareness in America, followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.
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"According to one of his many biographers, Kurt Vonnegut studied at Cornell University before serving in the U.S. Air Force in World War II (Reed 1997). Vonnegut was captured by the Germans, and was one of the survivors of the fire bombing of Dresden, Germany, that took place in February 1945. Vonnegut?s book, Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade (1969) is his attempt to recreate his Dresden experiences in a fictional form; the book uses that bombing raid as a symbol of the cruelty and destructiveness of war down through the centuries using a mixture of dark fantasy and ?numb, loopy humor ?(Giles & Dickstein 2003:11). An interesting benefit that has been realized from this evocative story about an otherwise-horrifying event (particularly one in which the United States did not play an all-that-honorable-role) has been its impact on raising the level of geopolitical awareness among Americans who have read the book. In this regard, Vonnegut has provided a poignant account of an event in history that contributes to this understanding. "
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A Critical Analysis of "Slaughterhouse-Five"., 2003.
This paper analyzes "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut from the view point of the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim.
1,945 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper discusses Kurt Vonnegut's motivation behind writing his novel as well as the aspects of war. The paper also directly links the main character of Slaughterhouse-Five to Vonnegut himself. It shows how Vonnegut uses the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, as a mask for himself. From behind this mask, Vonnegut discusses the destructiveness, inevitability, and absurdity of war and also reveals that people should accept the events in their lives and concentrate solely on the positive moments.
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"The themes of Slaughterhouse-Five do not revolve solely around the institution of war, however. In addition to its war-related themes, acceptance is another major theme that emerges from his novel. Vonnegut reveals this theme in a number of ways. When he twice includes the Serenity prayer in his novel, for example, ?God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference? (209). According to William Bly, Billy Pilgrim finds comfort in the Tralfamadorian belief that people who are dead in one moment are alive and well in many other moments and, Bly further states, that this concept of life can be interpreted as Vonnegut telling his readers that they, too, should be consoled when someone dies, because the dead live on in people?s memories (27). The theme of acceptance is further evidenced when Vonnegut writes, after every mention of death in the novel, the phrase, ?So it goes? (214). This phrase appears one hundred and six times throughout the novel and gives it a cyclical quality that implies that life goes on. Reflect on the happy moments in life, Vonnegut teaches, and all will be well. "
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"Slaughterhouse-Five", 2002.
Historical, biographical and Marxist themes in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This te essay examines the themes and subject matter of Kurt Vonnegut's novel, "Slaughterhouse Five", from a historical, biographical and Marxist point of view.
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?Slaughterhouse-Five?, 2002.
An analysis of the science-fiction novel ?Slaughterhouse-Five? by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
1,580 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 51.95
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The paper discusses Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s use of time and place as part of his narrative strategy in "Slaughterhouse-Five", a novel with a science-fiction format. The paper shows how the main character is carried back and forth through time as well as space because time is a thematic subject in the novel.
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"Not being stuck in time does not mean complete freedom, however. On the one hand, the novel seems to reflect the thematic sense that Billy's life is determined and that he has no control over it. This is because no matter how many times Billy moves through his life, appearing first in one place and then another, the outcome is always the same. Time travel does not mean the ability to change time. Indeed, since the Tralfamadorians experience all time at once, time must be unchangeable. Vonnegut offers a deterministic and even pessimistic view of life and the passage of time and also emphasizes that we live in moments in our lives that were of dramatic impact for good or ill but that can also never be changed no matter how many times we relive them or how much we want to change them when we do."
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"Slaughterhouse Five", 2007.
This paper analyzes the violence in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five - Or the Children's Crusade", one of the most widely known works in modern American literature.
2,165 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper explains that Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" has been deemed too violent by certain schools to allow children to read it. The author points out that this novel draws upon Vonnegut's own experience in World War Two, when as a very young infantry scout, he was captured in the Battle of the Bulge and quartered in a Dresden slaughterhouse where he witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden. The paper concludes that Vonnegut keeps on repeating and repeating the theme of the absurdity, stupidity and uselessness of war, which makes understanding this novel even more important. The paper includes several quotations.
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"While the author has experienced a time in his life when violence was a daily occurrence, he, like Billy Pilgrim experiences them sporadically, as those who suffer with Post Traumatic Syndrome do, except that the author has chosen these flashbacks carefully. Some believe the narration is linear, as Billy's life is told in one long line. But the line of narration is broken by the recall of violent events of the war, each time taking up the narrative at the point where the previous war story ended. The war permeates the thought and storyline, in spite of Vonnegut's trying to escape its power."
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"Slaughterhouse-Five", 2005.
A discussion of the book, "Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death," by Kurt Vonnegut.
1,857 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper discusses the nature of reality in the book, including the issue of Tralfamadore and why Vonnegut chose to write the novel as a science fiction piece. Reality is a difficult concept to find in this novel because it follows the story of Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist who survived the firefight of Dresden and kidnapping by alien beings. It explains that Billy's reality is far different from the "normal" view of reality, but that is one of the things that makes this novel so interesting. It is difficult to tell where reality ends and fantasy begins, just like many occasions in real life.
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"Kurt Vonnegut's classic anti-war novel, "Slaughterhouse-Five" is part science fiction and part autobiography. Vonnegut served as a scout in World War II, and just like the hero of the novel, Billy Pilgrim, he survived the hellish bombing of Dresden, which killed more people than both the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Huber). Thus, there are certainly parts of this novel that Vonnegut saw first hand, and felt the compulsion to put down on paper. One critic notes, "The autobiographical element here, of course, is in the fact that Vonnegut, too, had been a P.O.W. in a camp in an area liberated by the Russians, and that he too had wandered from the camp and witnessed the flight of refugees" (Reed 60). Perhaps that is one reason he chose to create the novel as a science fiction fantasy that travels back and forth in time. What he experienced must have seemed like science fiction to him, and so, he felt the need to recreate it in this format."
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"Slaughterhouse-Five", 2004.
Discusses the anti-war message in Kurt Vonnegut's novel.
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Kurt Vonnegut?s "Slaughterhouse-Five" is the tale of a World War II veteran/soldier, Billy Pilgrim, whose wartime experiences and their effects lead him to the conclusion that war is unexplainable. The paper shows that to portray this effectively, Vonnegut presents the story in two dimensions. as history and science-fiction. and the irrationality of war is emphasized in each dimension by contrasts in its comic and tragic elements. The historical seriousness of the Battle of the Bulge and the bombing of Dresden are contrasted by many ironies and dark humor; the fantastical, science-fiction-type place of Tralfamadore is, in truth, an outlet for Vonnegut to show his incredibly serious fatalistic views. The paper shows that the surprising variations of the seriousness and light-heartedness allow Vonnegut to show effectively that war is absurd, making the story an anti-war novel.
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"As a result of the trauma of Billy's war experience; he faces an inability to deal with reality later in his life and the fantastical Tralfamadore is a planet where Billy escapes to when he feels life's stresses; however mad Billy seems to have become, Tralfamadore doubles to reveal Vonnegut's earnest fatalistic views. Tralfamadore is the epitome of all that is right in the universe and points out all that is wrong on Earth. The Tralfamadorians tell Billy that, although Earth is corrupt, there is nothing he can do about it: "Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly what he does? (Vonnegut, 146). Just as Billy was destined to go to war, decided on by a "higher being", the government was forced to go to war by a "higher being" than they, and the war was predestined and this idea of fatalism attempts to justify the irrationality of war."
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"Slaughterhouse Five", 2006.
A review of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughter-House Five".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This argumentative essay presents the argument that the use of the science fiction Tralfamadorians in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughter-House Five", does not take away from the anti-war influence of the book but, in fact, reinforce the apathy that often perpetuates the cycle of violence associated with warfare.
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"The impact of war is negatively portrayed in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-House Five. However the author provides the alien perspective of the science fiction characters of the Tralfamadorians in the novel who have a perception ..."
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Predestiny in "Slaughterhouse 5", 2002.
Examines the theme of accepting the inevitability of death in Kurt Vonnegut's novel.
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This paper shall explore the concept of "predestiny" in the classic novel "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut. Here, "predestiny" is associated with the futility of war and the inevitability of death.
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Science Fiction, 2005.
This paper compares Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" and Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris" as examples of the science fiction genre.
1,310 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper explains that perhaps the best definition of the distinct genre of science fiction is human morality and technology in a dialogue, projected into the human future. The author points out that Huxley critiques not genetics so much as human fears of unhappiness and the fear of not being able to experience perfect pleasure at all times; and Vonnegut satirizes not so much the technology of modern war, but the institutions that human beings have developed around the new technology, such as the military industrial complex. The paper relates that "Solaris" contains elements of science fiction, such as the projected use of present day technology into a probable future, and a wrestling with its possible moral implications for humanity.
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"This coolness of tone is one reason why readers seldom feel the same emotional investiture in the characters of science fiction as they do in characters of other genres. Bernard Marx of "Brave New World" is as close to a hero as Huxley's novel is willing to have, and Marx is callous, clever, and mainly interested in bedding the main female protagonist, even though he occasionally questions his society's values. In "Slaughterhouse Five", the novel's initial setting depicts the main protagonist in 1968, where he is married and has two children. Although it gradually becomes clear that he is injured, and that his wife is dead, the reader does not care so much as merely appreciate the irony that, despite all that Billy has gone through, he may die by accident, even after having survived Dresden."
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Kurt Vonnegut, 2008.
An analysis of the life, works, character and unique contribution to American fiction of Kurt Vonnegut.
1,202 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses how Kurt Vonnegut's novels such as "Cat's Cradle" and "Slaughterhouse Five" have a reputation both as great literary classics and great works of underground fiction. It looks at how "Slaughterhouse Five" is his most famous novel and also regarded his most personal, as it was based on his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany during the Allied firebombing of Dresden in 1945. It also discusses how Vonnegut is credited with helping to elevate the genre of science fiction, once considered a staple of pulp magazine racks, to that of high art and how "Cat's Cradle" tells the tale of scientists trying to create 'ice-nine,' a crystal that could turn all water solid and thus destroy all life on earth.
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"Vonnegut is credited with helping to elevate the genre of science fiction, once considered a staple of pulp magazine racks, to that of high art. Cat's Cradle tells the tale of scientists trying to create 'ice-nine,' a crystal that could turn all water solid and thus destroy all life on the earth. In 1963, Cat's Cradle slowly developed a readership as Cold War Americans were increasingly receptive to a book that showed the dangerous potential of science and technology to develop faster than ethics and morality ("Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84," CNN.com, 2007, p.1) The novel, takes its title from an Eskimo game in which children try to snare the sun with string (Smith, 2007, p.1). Although its first printing sold only 500 copies, it has become a staple of English classes all over America today (Smith, 2007, p.1)."
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