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Themes and Analysis

Slaughterhouse-five, by kurt vonnegut.

Within ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ Kurt Vonnegut taps into a number of interesting themes, uses a few quite memorable images, and asks important questions about war and free will.

Article written by Emma Baldwin

B.A. in English, B.F.A. in Fine Art, and B.A. in Art Histories from East Carolina University.

Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death solidified Vonnegut’s career and established his reputation as an anti-war author, celebrated for his use of satire and symbolism . 

Slaughterhouse-Five Themes

War, and its destructive power, is one of the most important themes readers can find in Slaughterhouse-Five . The firebombing of Dresden is one of the most important moments in the novel and is arguably, the event that shatters Billy’s mind and allows him to experience what he sees as jumps in time.

It should be noted that for a time, Billy seemingly forgot about Dresden and everything he’d experienced during WWII. He lived a good, prosperous life, what many would call the American dream. But, suddenly, that’s all destroyed when he remembers what he’s experienced. Beneath his exterior is someone who has still not recovered from what he saw in Dresden. When spending time with the Tralfamadorians, Billy learns about their views on time and death. This could be if one considers the entire experience a hallucination, a way of reconciling the deaths Billy saw. No one, he learns, is truly dead. 

Along with war, free will is certainly one of the most obvious and important themes at work in Slaughterhouse-Five. One of the pivotal moments of the novel occurs when Billy while speaking with the Tralfamadorians, learns that they have no concept of free will. In fact, one of them tells him, of all the planets they’ve visited, Earth is the only one where they’ve heard people talking about the concept. It’s something that’s considered completely absurd. They have an acceptance of their fate that aligns with their views on time (everything is happening at once, non-linearly). 

Billy is repeatedly faced with conflicts that test his belief in free will . He learns more about life and starts to believe that there’s nothing he can do to change where he’s going or what death he’s going to experience in the end. 

Truth 

Kurt Vonnegut , as a writer and narrator, is an important part of this novel. He announces in the first pages that he’s trying to write about Dresden in a way that people can understand. He’s attempting to convey the chaos and horrors of way, and it’s only through his non-linear novel that he’s able to do so. Readers will likely spend many pages of this novel questioning what’s real and what’s not. Did Billy really get abducted by aliens? Did he really see what he saw in Dresden? And does it matter if he did or did not?

The Tralfamadorians play an important role through their revelations of truth. Without the information about time and the fourth dimension Billy gets from them, he wouldn’t have had a way to come to terms with his life, death, and the deaths of so many others. 

Analysis of Key Moments in Slaughterhouse-Five

• The character Billy Pilgrim is born in New York and attends a semester of college before being drafted for WWII. 
• Billy fights at the Battle of the Bulge before being taken prisoner. He shifts in time for the first time. 
• He arrives at a POW camp and has a breakdown. 
• Billy and the other prisoners are sent to Dresden to manufacture malt syrup. 
• Allies attack Dresden and he takes shelter in a meat locker. 
• Billy is discharged from the military, finishes school, and marries the daughter of his school’s founder. 
• He commits himself to the hospital and gets sick treatments. 
• After his daughter’s wedding, he is kidnaped by the Tralfamadorians and put in a zoo.
• He’s in a plane crash that kills everyone onboard except for him. 
• Billy writers a letter to the town’s newspaper about the Tralfamadorians. 
• He reveals his alien experience on a talk show. He also talks about non-linear time. 

Style, Tone, and Figurative Language 

Slaughterhouse-Five is written with sparse sentences, many of which are declarative, absurd statements. Overall, the paragraphs are short and concise. Vonnegut does not use any flowery language to make war seem more interesting, romantic, or horror-filled than it already is. He, presumably, tells things exactly as it happens, and he has the authority to do so considering how many of Billy’s experiences mirror his own. For example, consider quote from Slaughterhouse-Five : 

It was a movie about American bombers in World War II and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this: American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.

Vonnegut breaks down Billy’s experiences during WWII in reverse, demonstrating, simply and directly, what war is. 

In regard to the tone used in Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut goes back and other between mocking the events he’s describing and the people experiencing them while also speaking about them in a detached manner. He describes war as it is without getting overly emotional about it. There is a great deal of humor in Vonnegut’s writing, but a lot of it is related to dark subject matter that makes it hard to take any joy in it. He takes this satiric approach to the story as a way of further defining how absurd and pointless war is. 

Throughout the novel, readers can also find examples of figurative language. These include similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and more. For example, early on in the novel, Vonnegut writes the following line: “The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the zipper on the fly of God Almighty” and “He was like a poet in the Parthenon.” These are great examples of similes. There are also metaphors like “He was a roaring furnace under all his layers of wool and straps and canvas.” 

Analysis of Symbols 

The bird .

The bird that says “poo-tee-weet” is a clever and important symbol in the novel. It doesn’t have the words to express what war is or what the future of the human race is going to be. It’s the only thing that anyone says, though, after the massacre at Dresden and therefore becomes a symbol of the unintelligible and absurd. It’s one great example of the existentialist elements of this novel and how Vonnegut is trying to find a way to define war and death despite its senselessness and purposelessness.

The novel ends with the bird using the same phrase. It’s left without an answer, meaning that neither Vonnegut nor Billy has been able to come up with a reason for war, or specifically how Dresden could’ve happened. 

Jesus and the Cross 

This impactful symbol appears numerous times throughout the novel. Religion and its purpose is addressed in a book written by Kilgore Trout, an allusion to the role he played in history. Just as Billy moves through time, and in the end, tries to act as a messenger conveying the Tralfamadorian view on life and time, so too does Jesus. This can also be related to the fact that Billy is well aware of how he’s going to die, as Jesus was .

The Slaughterhouse 

The slaughterhouse in which Billy and his fellow POWs work is an important part of the novel. It’s there that they shelter from the firebombing of Dresden. It shelters him at that moment, but after, he’s as fragile as he’s ever been. The symbol of the slaughterhouse is broader, though. It relates to the theme of war and the deaths of the men, women, and children in Dresden. It was a slaughterhouse at that point in the war. 

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On Slaughterhouse-Five , the “Ultimate PTSD Novel”

Tom roston considers the ongoing popularity of kurt vonnegut’s classic.

“Rereading Slaughterhouse-Five taught me two things about the novel: how great it really is, and what it’s really about. It’s not about time travel and flying saucers, it’s about PTSD,” wrote William Deresiewicz, an author and critic, in The Nation magazine in 2012.

Readers have been looking at the book through the psychological trauma prism since the novel first came out. In 1974, literary critic Arnold Edelstein wrote, “‘So it goes’ . . . is earned at a price terrible enough to be psychologically consistent with the horror of Billy’s experiences. The only way he can live with his memories of his past and his fear of the future and find meaning in both is to withdraw from reality into a pleasant but neurotic fantasy.”

In 2019, writer Salman Rushdie gave a talk commemorating the 50th anniversary of the novel and said, “It is perfectly possible, perhaps even sensible, to read Billy Pilgrim’s entire Tralfamadorian experience as a fantastic, traumatic disorder brought about by his wartime experiences—as ‘not real.’ Vonnegut leaves that question open, as a good writer should. That openness is the space in which the reader is allowed to make up his or her own mind.”

The 50th anniversary, which was celebrated with the launch of a special hardcover edition and a series of appreciations in the media, was a moment to reflect on the significance of the book. The New York Times framed the novel as “a self-help manual for psychic pain at a time when many young Americans needed it most.” Fifty years ago, the Vietnam War was cleaving at the American soul. The plight of the nearly three million veterans who fought it helped define that era. Today, the same number of men and women, 2.7 million, have served in recent conflicts in the Middle East. And with the COVID-19 pandemic killing hundreds of thousands of Americans and upending all our lives, we are going to need as many self-help manuals for psychic pain as we can get.

Approximately 125,000 copies of Slaughterhouse-Five were sold in 2019. Across the country people were giving it a first, second, or tenth read. And those sales didn’t represent a spike because of the anniversary; throughout the 21st century so far, about that same number of copies have been sold every year. It’s impossible to track, but those numbers must be dwarfed by the dog-eared, used copies of the book that are lent, borrowed, and stealthily lifted from living room shelves or sold through secondhand bookstores.

I spoke with Steve Almond, bestselling author ( Candyfreak , Against Football ), writing professor, and Vonnegut devotee, about why he thinks the book’s readership remains strong. But first, a couple notes about Almond: When I say he’s a devotee, I should be more clear. Vonnegut is in a league of his own in inspiring years and years of obsessive fans who have read all of his books, quote from them until their friends want to throttle them, and litter their yearbook pages with his wisdom. Almond was once one of those fans. Perhaps you were as well. Almond says he read most of Vonnegut’s novels more than six times, in addition to almost everything else he wrote, including his speeches.

Another thing about Almond: I have a distant connection to him and someone I know once pointedly referred to him as a successful writer, making me feel about two feet tall. So, I approached him with mixed feelings of awe, envy, and respect. And a wee dram of hostility.

Almond wrote his college thesis on Vonnegut and he almost wrote a biography of him but instead published a seventeen- thousand-word essay titled “Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt,” which he included in his 2007 collection (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits and Obsessions . In it, Almond astutely writes of Vonnegut: “The evidence was in his books, which performed the greatest feat of alchemy known to man: the conversion of grief into laughter by means of courageous imagination. Like any decent parent, he had made the astonishing sorrow of the examined life bearable.”

It’s a fantastic piece of writing. Almond explains how Vonnegut inspired him to become a writer and helped him endure his own “family beset with sorrow.” So, yes, Almond knows of what he speaks when he tells me that fundamental to Slaughterhouse-Five ’s appeal is that fans seamlessly identify with both the protagonist and his creator because it feels like nonfiction. “This is what it feels to be me,” Almond says of the Vonnegut reader. “This is not just a writer pulling something out of his bag of tricks. He understands me. And it’s a byproduct of his traumatic history.”

The Times article recognized the war trauma of the main character, Billy Pilgrim, which was nothing new. That’s been done in countless classrooms, reviews, and dissertation papers. In the book, Pilgrim stumbles between states of catatonia, crying jags, and childlike befuddlement. He also becomes “unstuck in time” and travels to the faraway planet of Tralfamadore, which can be interpreted as actually happening in the narrative or as only occurring in Pilgrim’s mind as a symptom of his trauma.

But the Billy-Pilgrim-has-PTSD understanding of the book has more recently budded an interpretation that the trauma of the character also mirrors the author’s own. In that New York Times article, Kurt’s daughter Nanette said her father experienced PTSD and that “he was writing to save his own life . . . and in doing it I think he has saved a lot of lives,” meaning that both her father and his readers found healing in Slaughterhouse-Five . I imagine reducing his book to a clinical diagnosis or, perhaps worse, putting it in the self-help category, would make Vonnegut shudder.

In a series of conversations, Klinkowitz, who began writing about Vonnegut in the early 1970s, pushed back on my interest in the PTSD connection to Slaughterhouse-Five . “When Kurt wants to make a literary character, he is not writing a psychological study,” he says. “He is crafting a work of art. In the book he is creating how the world looks to Billy. And it turns out that’s how the world looks to most of us. You can learn all you want by talking to psychiatrists but to find out how a character reacts to trauma, you have to create an imaginary construct.”

I agree. Vonnegut didn’t touch the collective American psyche with a medical text or an anti-war manifesto but with a story spun from his creativity. Although his son, Mark, believes that his father had PTSD and that “you find with combat PTSD that it helps people survive to tell their narrative,” he dismisses the notion that his father wrote Slaughterhouse-Five with a clear purpose or target. “He was incredibly intuitive. I don’t think he had a theory or a strategy,” Mark says. “He knew when he had something right but I don’t think he could have told you how to get there. And he had no clue what people would think of it.”

As it turns out, the book has become what Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers calls a “touchstone” in many peoples’ lives, especially that of veterans. Powers, who wrote the foreword to Slaughterhouse-Five ’s 50th anniversary edition, refers to one of his most harrowing war experiences—he was on a rooftop staring through a 4x scope on his M240B machine gun when his fellow soldiers shot and killed an elderly couple who waved a white flag from their car—as his “moment trapped in amber,” a moment that remains frozen in his mind, a reference to the Tralfamadorian concept of time and free will.

Powers told me that he drew the jumping-back-and-forth structure of his novel, The Yellow Birds , a National Book Award finalist, from Slaughterhouse-Five . He relates to being unstuck in time and sees its function in Vonnegut’s novel “as this miraculous, perfect device that can represent the trauma response that a lot of veterans have.”

“I would argue that this book is among the most humane works of art ever created. It is concerned with and dedicated to the alleviation and prevention of human suffering in the face of its inevitability, and I can think of no braver moral position to take than that one,” Powers wrote in his foreword. “You can have Job. I’ll throw in my lot with Billy Pilgrim.”

Alex Horton, an army infantryman in 2007, carried Slaughterhouse-Five to his guard posts in Baghdad and to stations in the Diyala River valley, where he shared it with other soldiers. The book was like a “talisman” for Horton, who could not have then articulated why it was so meaningful to him but later came to realize that the book demonstrated that “this thing that is happening to you right now, these days, will be just as important to you twenty years from now or when you’re 80 years old,” Horton says. “These things are going to spiral through your life and they are going to attain different meaning as you grow older.” When he got back from Iraq, Horton’s feelings of hurt and regret were mitigated by Vonnegut’s story, which he turned to for “solace.” Horton says that the book was essentially “a blueprint on how to get from Billy Pilgrim to Kurt Vonnegut.” And although he didn’t specifically try the novelist’s path, the Texas-born veteran became a successful Washington Post staff writer, covering mostly military matters, committed to the “daily reporting grind.” Without such a blueprint, the imprint of war can often be overwhelming.

Many veterans are unable to assimilate their memories of their deployment. Indeed, a lifetime of wrestling with PTSD symptoms has plagued this new generation of soldiers engaged in the “endless wars” of the Middle East. About one in four soldiers has or has had mental health issues. Since the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders designation of the diagnosis in 1980, there’s been increasing awareness and understanding of the ravages of wartime PTSD, a national tragedy that hasn’t diminished despite decreased engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. A total of 6,435 US veterans killed themselves in 2018. And the increase of suicides over the past decade by younger vets, aged 18 to 35, has been significantly higher than that of non-veterans. It’s shocking: Veterans kill themselves at a rate that is two times higher than that of all Americans.

But the legitimacy and growing acceptance of combat PTSD has been tarnished and subsumed by the twin veils of popularization and skepticism. Several factors have contributed to the weakening of the validity of the PTSD diagnosis. It doesn’t help that its defining characteristics include that it can be fluid, multifaceted, and lacking in physical properties (although improved brain scans are beginning to reveal more of how PTSD can directly impact neurons).

In the 21st century, it feels like anyone can get it. And so, conversely, it seems like no one has it. PTSD has transformed from being a clinical diagnosis to a grab-all description of past pain. I just stepped away from writing these very words and listened to a podcast in which a pundit and a journalist bemoaned their shared “PTSD” from the 2016 election victory of President Trump. The term has become shorthand for anything distressing. When singer Alanis Morissette or actor Keira Knightley claims to have PTSD from the detrimental effects of fame, or actor Shia LaBeouf says he has PTSD from past familial suffering to help explain his bad behavior, however legitimate their pain may be, it dilutes the diagnosis. Furthermore, in a litigious, me-first society, claiming PTSD can translate into financial rewards, which further complicates our understanding of it.

The National Institute of Mental Health ranks PTSD as the third most common mental illness in the United States. In any given year, there are eight million people who suffer from it. Whether or not these numbers are real, inflated, or suppressed almost doesn’t matter anymore. This millennium began with the trauma of the September 11 attacks, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, mass shootings, climate-change-fueled natural disasters, and now COVID-19. Trauma has come to define us as a nation.

Of course, it would be fatuous to suggest our pains are all we are or that they supersede that of previous eras. Without even getting into the genocide of Native Americans and the scourge of slavery, there have always been wars, hard times, and the ravages of disease. But what differs now is that previous generations of the modern era experienced trauma and then, rightly or wrongly, moved on. It was almost like a collective amnesia. Each major war of the 20th century introduced Americans to the affliction of war trauma anew. Today, PTSD, in its accurate and conflated form, overused or blindly rejected, looks to be settling over us like a permanent haze.

But Vonnegut provided us with a beacon that has time-traveled, unscathed, from the past. The author’s two-decade struggle to write a book that depicts the trauma of war truthfully, without cheapening it, anticipated the PTSD diagnosis. “ Slaughterhouse-Five is the ultimate PTSD novel,” says Duke University professor and psychiatrist Harold Kudler, who was the chief consultant for mental health for the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from 2014 to 2018. “It is a fully rendered metaphorical exploration of what it means to be ripped out of your own person, relationships, place and time written by a man who had actually experienced this.”

And even more, his story of fractured identity and trips in time and space provides a navigational tool. Billy Pilgrim is a war veteran unlike any other and yet he is universal. Vonnegut circumvented conventions, labels, and false sentiments. He blew all of that up, and by doing so he put a wedge in readers’ resistance to ambiguity and complexity. Vonnegut’s book, and the way he lived his life, tell us an entirely original story about what it means to be human.

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Excerpted from The Writer’s Crusade by Tom Roston. Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Abrams Books. Copyright © 2021 by Tom Roston. 

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Discuss the use of time as a narrative device in "Slaughterhouse-Five." How does the novel's non-linear structure contribute to its exploration of the absurdity of war and the trauma of the Dresden bombing?

War and Anti-War Themes

Analyze the novel's portrayal of war and its anti-war themes. How does Billy Pilgrim's experiences as a soldier and a time traveler provide insight into the devastating effects of war on individuals and society? Explore the novel's pacifist message.

Tralfamadorian Philosophy

Examine the philosophy of the Tralfamadorians and its impact on Billy Pilgrim's perspective on life and death. How does their concept of time and the idea that "so it goes" shape Billy's reactions to traumatic events and the inevitability of death?

Post-Traumatic Stress and Mental Health

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Irony and Satire

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Free Will vs. Determinism

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Slaughterhouse-Five

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War and Death

Slaughterhouse-Five is an attempt by the author, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., to come to terms with the firebombing of Dresden, which killed over 100,000 Germans, mostly civilians, and destroyed one of Europe's most beautiful cities. He does this through description of his own war experience, and through the narrative of Billy Pilgrim , a fictional character whose path occasionally intersects Vonnegut’s.

Different characters experience war and death in different ways. Vonnegut, in Chapter One, reconnects with…

Time, Time-travel, and Free Will

The first sentence of Chapter Two illustrates the importance of time in the novel: “Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.” Vonnegut attempts one form of time-travel, memory, in his conversations with O’Hare about the war. But they find their memories are incomplete. The novel’s second option, then, is actual travel through time. Billy Pilgrim can do this because he has learned of Tralfamadorian time, where the past, present, and future exist at once.

Science Fiction and Aliens

Vonnegut uses science fiction and aliens as means of knitting together events in Billy Pilgrim’s life, and of enabling philosophical discussions about the nature of time and death. Vonnegut was a science fiction writer early in his career, and Kilgore Trout , a character in the novel who is an obscure and crude writer of wildly imaginative science fiction, might be seen as a caricature of Vonnegut. The author comments that Rosewater and Pilgrim, ravaged…

Money and Success

The novel contains a meditation on the nature of success. Vonnegut and O’Hare are both wealthy in the late 1960s, during the novel’s composition. Vonnegut never expected to have any money, yet he hopes his “Dresden novel” will be a big hit. Kilgore Trout , then, is Vonnegut’s foil, since his books are barely read by the public. But Trout’s ideas, which begin as fictions, are central to the philosophical investigations of the novel.

Witness and Truth

The novel returns, again and again, to a theme of witness and truth. Vonnegut announces in Chapter One that he is trying to write an account of the Dresden firebombing. Vonnegut evokes the disruption and strangeness of war by disturbing the linear narrative of the novel itself, and by increasing the “unreal” nature of the story. The author later follows Billy’s associations of the barbershop quartet to track his memories about the war. Thus the…

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Slaughterhouse-Five Themes

Themes are overarching ideas and beliefs that the writers express in their texts including poetry, fiction , and plays.  Themes make the story appealing and persuasive and help readers to understand the hidden messages in a story or poem . Kurt Vonnegut has inserted various themes in Slaughterhouse-Five , his phenomenal novel . The novel deal with the dilemma of war and its impacts on the victims. Some of the major themes in Slaughterhouse-Five have been discussed below.

Themes in Slaughterhouse-Five

Destructiveness of War

The destructiveness of war is the major theme of Slaughterhouse-Five. The protagonist , Billy Pilgrim and other characters like Paul Lazzaro, Bernard O’ Harry and including the writer suffer from physical as well as psychological devastation caused by the war. Most of the novel revolves around the Dresden Bombing during World War II. The characters, being prisoners in Slaughterhouse witness death and destruction caused by the bombing. This experience becomes the reason for Billy’s permanent sufferings. Even after the war, he remains emotionally and psychologically unstable.

Effects of War

Effects of war also uphold thematic significance in the novel both emotional and psychological. Vonnegut shapes this theme through Billy’s character , who “remains unstuck in time.” During that time, he is kidnapped by Tralfamadorians and learns their theories of time and death.  Other characters like O’ Harry and Marry are also the war victims. That is why they do not want to talk about it. Vonnegut himself confesses at the end that “there is nothing intelligent to say about the massacre,” which demonstrates his discontent of the brutalities of the war he witnessed as a prisoner.

Acceptance of Inevitability

Acceptance is another major theme of the novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. The phrase , “so it goes” is repeated with every mention of death in the novel. It represents Vonnegut’s realistic point of view about death that is unavoidable. Throughout the novel, Vonnegut narrates that war is bloody awful, which leads to the triumph of death and violence. Many characters die during the war, and the phrase, “so it goes” reflects that it is something normal. Vonnegut tries to give this message that we cannot control our lives, especially death.

To avoid the bitter realities of war, Billy Pilgrim seeks refuge in escapism. Due to the war and the bombings, like many soldiers, he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among his comrades. The planet of Tralfamadore and Tralfamadorians, temporarily offer him comfort and escape to avoid the memories of deadly events he had witnessed during his imprisonment. Hence, the element of escapism given by the Tralfamadorians removes Billy from the disturbing world of reality and creates a free zone for him where he embraces peace and tranquility.

One of the genres of the novel is science fiction . Vonnegut used the time to portray the life of the main character, Billy. Throughout the novel, the time remains non-chronological. Additionally, Billy mentions several times that he has become “unstuck in time.” Though the main event of the novel remains the Dresden Bombing, yet Billy has seen his death many times and is capable of plunging in the past, the future as well as the present. Thus, time plays a major role in the development of the story.

Vonnegut utilizes Tralfamadorians and Billy Pilgrim’s life to address Free Will. Tralfamadorians, with fourth dimension knowledge, believe that all moments occur and reoccur simultaneously. They have already happened and that no one can change fate. Throughout his life, Billy is forced to be part of the war and similar things against his free will. The moments start from his childhood when his father throws him in the water to teach him how to swim. He was unwillingly drafted into the war. Later, he is kidnapped by Tralfamadorians against his will. Therefore, he realizes that this concept is just an illusion .

Foolishness

Most of the characters in Slaughterhouse-Five are either absurd or foolish. For Example, Billy doesn’t believe in war and is subjected to humiliation and gains enemy due to his belief. Similarly, Edgar Derby, who seems to be an idealistic figure of the novel, is reduced to tears due to the unexpected taste of syrup in his mouth. The novel suggests that it is not the characters that represent foolishness, but the system changes people, removes their sanity and traces of humanity from their mind.

Complexity of Reality

Vonnegut attempts to write down the events of the war he has sighted as a prisoner. He believes that there is no way that he can exactly capture the magnitude of that reality. The time travel in the novel disrupts the reader’s sense of reality and makes the story incomprehensible. The portrayal of Billy as an optometrist who suggests lenses for others to capture the things more vividly is also a case in point. However, he is not sure about his own understanding of what he sees; he provides many views of reality. Moreover, he believes in Tralfamadorians, and their philosophy shows that he has lost the real sense of reality.

Blending Imagination with Reality

Vonnegut has presented a perfect blend of reality, science fiction, satire , metafiction and other literary elements in this novel. He used dark humor to highlight the absurdities of war.  Despite the element of science fiction, the reader is continuously reminded that they are reading a real account of the war incidents, not a fictional story. The author appears several times in the novel to demonstrate that Billy Pilgrim, Tralfamadore and Tralfamadorians are the product of his imaginations. Thus, Vonnegut has successfully employed these imaginary elements in the text to portray real incidents of war and its effects on the victims.

Men and Masculinity

Vonnegut does not glorify war in his writing. Seemingly simple, this book contains many unpleasant, absurd and true realities of the soldiers. Vonnegut portrays the war in its real sense such as countless deaths, hunger and emotional abuse caused by the experiences of war and traumatic experiences. He also discusses all the horrible things that happen to war zones when they undergo stress and stains of wars and consequential emotional trauma.

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