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End Of The World Kurt Vonnegut
1,408 wordsKurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, one of the century's greatest anthropological works, deals with religion, science, and the end of the world; its major theme involves the symbolic nature of the title of the book. The theme of the cat's cradle is used throughout the book to represent many of the truths, as viewed by Vonnegut, that are found in society. A cat's cradle is essentially a game played by all ages and almost all nationalities; "Even the Eskimos know it" (Cat's Cradle 114). It is a game usi...
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The Role Of Technology In Kurt Vonnegut Writing
1,381 wordsOutline Thesis: Technology is the villain in Kurt Vonnegut's works because of his hatred of corporate insensitivity and his awareness of the destructive social impact of science and technology. I. Kurt Vonnegut has a great awareness of the destructive social impact of science and technology. A. Contraptions that Vonnegut calls social transplants replace contact with the awful real relatives and friends with synthetic ones. 1. Computers minimize human contact even better than TVs and CD players w...
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Slaughterhouse Five Of Time
1,091 wordsMany writers in history have written science fiction novels and had great success with them, but only a few have been as enduring over time as Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Slaughterhouse-Five is a personal novel which draws upon Vonnegut's experiences as a scout in World War Two, his capture and becoming a prisoner of war, and his witnessing of the fire bombing of Dresden in February of 1945 (the greatest man-caused massacre in history). The novel is about the life and times of a World W...
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Huxley Brave New World Kurt Vonnegut
2,869 words... es the oppressive atmosphere of Orwell's police state and the science-fiction anti-utopian model introduced in Huxley's Brave New World. Fahrenheit 451 dramatizes entrapment in a sterile heritage and imaginative life, preserving a barren present without a past or future. It fuses traditional themes of anti-utopia fiction, much like the other authors, to satirically focus on the oppressive effect of a reductionist philosophy translated into social policy. This was written in response to the C...
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Critical Analysis Of Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
1,917 wordsKurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is essentially an anti-war book. The historical context of this book centers around the bombing of Dresden on the nights of Feb. 13 and 14 in 1944 during World War II. Hundreds and thousands were killed at locations like Dresden, which were non-military in nature but served as methods of weakening Axis morale. Vonnegut himself was present at Dresden when it was bombed. This book is his way of releasing emotional turmoil caused by war. Slaughterhouse-Five, much...
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Vonnegut Social Commentary In Cats Cradle
1,252 wordsKurt Vonnegut's science fiction novel, Cat's Cradle, is chocked full of social commentary, satirical humor, and an overall pessimistic view on American Society. Through the fictional religion Bokononism Vonnegut introduces us to John, a young man who is writing a book about the day the atomic bomb was dropped. His research led him to the late Dr. Felix Hoenikker, a brilliant scientist who was deemed the "father of the atomic bomb. " Anxious to learn more about Hoenikker from his surviving childr...
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End Of The World Cats Cradle
1,406 wordsAnalysis of Cats Cradle Kurt Vonnegut's Cats Cradle, one of the century's greatest anthropological works, deals with religion, science, and the end of the world; its major theme involves the symbolic nature of the title of the book. The theme of the cats cradle is used throughout the book to represent many of the truths, as viewed by Vonnegut, that are found in society. A cats cradle is essentially a game played by all ages and almost all nationalities; Even the Eskimos know it (Cats Cradle 114)...
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Poo Tee Weet ' Vonnegut Weet ' Vonnegut War
626 wordsIt is hard to ignore a writer such as Kurt Vonnegut. His works, described by Richard Giannone as comic masks covering the tragic farce that is our contemporary life, hold a mirror to the face of todays society in an attempt to show us the absurdity of the human condition. It is Vonnegut's belief, as is demonstrated by almost every major character of his writing, that people are unable to affect their own lives. However, although his writings are mostly pessimistic, he does not leave us with this...
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr Cats Cradle
622 wordsKurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born in Indianapolis in 1922. His father was an architect, his mother a noted beauty. Both spoke German, but wouldnt teach Kurt the language because of all the anti-German sentiment following the first World War. While in high school, Vonnegut edited the schools daily newspaper. He attended Cornell for a little over two years and wrote for the Cornell Daily Sun. In 1942, he was drafted into the U. S. Army. In 1944, his mother committed suicide and he was take...
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr Three Main Characters
2,074 wordsKurt Vonnegut, Jr. is a contemporary American author whose works have been described by Richard Giannone as comic masks covering the tragic farce that is our contemporary life (Draper, 3784). Vonnegut's life has had a number of significant influences on his works. Influences from his personal philosophy, his life and experiences, and his family are evident elements in his works. Among his comic masks are three novels: Cats Cradle, The Sirens of Titan, and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Throughout...
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1,090 wordsKurt Vonnegut's War Experiences And Its Effects Kurt Vonnegut's War Experiences And Its Effects On The Barnhouse Effect Kurt Vonnegut's War Experiences how it contributes to my understanding of the Barnhouse Effect Kurt Vonnegut's war experiences had a great impact on his life, which greatly contributes to the readers understanding of the Barnhouse Effect. His war experiences are reflected quite vividly through his writing of the Barnhouse Effect. This short story reflects the human horrors duri...
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World War Ii Kilgore Trout
8,561 wordsTHE NOVEL THE PLOT Billy Pilgrim, like Kurt Vonnegut, was an American soldier in Europe in the last year of World War II. If you come to know a combat veteran well- a veteran of that war, of the Korean War, or of the war in Vietnam- you will almost always find that his war experience was the single most important event in his life. The sights and scars of war remain with the soldier for the rest of his days, and his memories of death and killing help to shape whatever future career he may make. ...
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Sacco And Vanzetti Kurt Vonnegut
1,090 wordsPolitically Correct? Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut presents political opinions, historical events, philosophy, government dissatisfaction accompanied by other various topics. Vonnegut's novels can be distinguished by his underlying political themes and focus on philosophical issues. In this book Vonnegut emphasizes destiny and how a series of events can explain the different types of destiny that effect everyday life all the time. He uses this novel to touch on political and moral issues in our time...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol Theme Of The Book
1,816 wordsThe Themes of Slaughterhouse-Five The first theme of Slaughterhouse-Five, and perhaps the most obvious, is the war and its contrast with love, beauty, humanity, innocence etc. Slaughterhouse-Five, like Vonnegut's previous books, manages to tell us that war is bad for us and that it would be better for us to love one another. To find the wars contrast with love is quite difficult, because the book doesnt talk about any couple that was cruelly torn apart by the war (Billy didnt seem to love his wi...
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Psychological Treatment Mental Disease
1,014 wordsSchizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency, the disorder often appears earlier in men, usually in the late teens or early twenties, than in women, who are generally affected in the twenties to early thirties. Available treatments can relieve many symptoms, but most people with schizophrenia continue to suffer some symptoms throughout their lives; it has been estimated that no more than one in five individuals...
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