An Exploration of Postmodern Aesthetics in Kurt Vonnegut’s
Slaughterhouse – Five
V. Balamurugan Dr. D. Shanmugam
PhD Research Scholar Associate Professor
Department of English English Wing, DDE,
Annamalai University Annamalai University
Abstract
The aim of this research paper is to expose the postmodern aesthetics in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Postmodernism first gained its popularity in America and it become rich and varied in the hands of the American writers and critic. Kurt Vonnegut’ also one of the postmodern writers of the 20th century, his use of different narrative technique in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five renders the novel an extraordinary one. Vonnegut here employs almost all the technique and device of postmodern time. In Slaughterhouse-Five he experimented …show more content…
One such example identifies with the synopsis execution of the elderly Edgar Derby by the German strengths for plundering a tea pot from among the ashes of Dresden after the Unified fire-bombing of the city. In the midst of all that repulsiveness, demise and devastation, time is taken to punish one person. Another example of human foolishness, as recorded in Vonnegut’s novel, shows itself in the outcome of the Dresden firebombing which was “utter destruction” and “butchery inconceivable”. Vonnegut views that the remaining parts of the city took after the surface of the moon and that the Germans set the surviving POWS to work, breaking into storm cellars and reinforced hideouts to assemble bodies for internment, while German regular folks reviled and tossed rocks at them (9). Vonnegut additionally includes “There were too many corpses to bury. So instead the Germans sent in troops with flamethrowers, All these civilians’ remains were burnt to ashes” (10). Billy considers, that a lot of accentuation upon “time” and “action” has prompted to
Slaughterhouse – Five
V. Balamurugan Dr. D. Shanmugam
PhD Research Scholar Associate Professor
Department of English English Wing, DDE,
Annamalai University Annamalai University
Abstract
The aim of this research paper is to expose the postmodern aesthetics in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Postmodernism first gained its popularity in America and it become rich and varied in the hands of the American writers and critic. Kurt Vonnegut’ also one of the postmodern writers of the 20th century, his use of different narrative technique in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five renders the novel an extraordinary one. Vonnegut here employs almost all the technique and device of postmodern time. In Slaughterhouse-Five he experimented …show more content…
One such example identifies with the synopsis execution of the elderly Edgar Derby by the German strengths for plundering a tea pot from among the ashes of Dresden after the Unified fire-bombing of the city. In the midst of all that repulsiveness, demise and devastation, time is taken to punish one person. Another example of human foolishness, as recorded in Vonnegut’s novel, shows itself in the outcome of the Dresden firebombing which was “utter destruction” and “butchery inconceivable”. Vonnegut views that the remaining parts of the city took after the surface of the moon and that the Germans set the surviving POWS to work, breaking into storm cellars and reinforced hideouts to assemble bodies for internment, while German regular folks reviled and tossed rocks at them (9). Vonnegut additionally includes “There were too many corpses to bury. So instead the Germans sent in troops with flamethrowers, All these civilians’ remains were burnt to ashes” (10). Billy considers, that a lot of accentuation upon “time” and “action” has prompted to