he changed totally the concept of realism.
2-Themes of the novel It is noticeable that the novel Slaughterhouse-Five is rich of crucial themes related to the postmodern era which are war, death, time, the existence, the absurd and the free will. This variety of themes shows the author awareness of sensitive issues in the world as it shows the author’s skills in tackling different subjects to shape the thematic structure of the text.
2.1-The absurd: It is a dominant theme in Slaughterhouse-Five. Although the story is about a massacre but the writer succeed in creating the absurd atmosphere in the novel. These are instances from the novel where the absurd appears. “This was only the beginning of Billy's miseries in the metaphor. He was also strapped to a steel lattice which was bolted to a flatcar on rails, and there …show more content…
'Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why’’ (Vonnegut 37) (Highlight is mine)
Billy is questioning about everything to understand his life and his conditions; he wants logical answers for his questions but the answer of the tralfamadorian was 'Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why’’ and this is the amount of the absurd. (Highlight is mine)
2.2-Time: The use of this theme in the novel shows the intellectual dimension of the author toward the scientific and the philosophical issues. Yet, theme of time contributes in creating the absurd situations in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. In order to clarify the idea, these are some examples from the novel.
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only with the electric clocks, but the wind-up kind, too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.
There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling., I had to believe whatever clocks said-and calendars.(Vonnegut 13) (Highlight is
2-Themes of the novel It is noticeable that the novel Slaughterhouse-Five is rich of crucial themes related to the postmodern era which are war, death, time, the existence, the absurd and the free will. This variety of themes shows the author awareness of sensitive issues in the world as it shows the author’s skills in tackling different subjects to shape the thematic structure of the text.
2.1-The absurd: It is a dominant theme in Slaughterhouse-Five. Although the story is about a massacre but the writer succeed in creating the absurd atmosphere in the novel. These are instances from the novel where the absurd appears. “This was only the beginning of Billy's miseries in the metaphor. He was also strapped to a steel lattice which was bolted to a flatcar on rails, and there …show more content…
'Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why’’ (Vonnegut 37) (Highlight is mine)
Billy is questioning about everything to understand his life and his conditions; he wants logical answers for his questions but the answer of the tralfamadorian was 'Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why’’ and this is the amount of the absurd. (Highlight is mine)
2.2-Time: The use of this theme in the novel shows the intellectual dimension of the author toward the scientific and the philosophical issues. Yet, theme of time contributes in creating the absurd situations in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. In order to clarify the idea, these are some examples from the novel.
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only with the electric clocks, but the wind-up kind, too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.
There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling., I had to believe whatever clocks said-and calendars.(Vonnegut 13) (Highlight is