Themes show the subject or main thought of a story. In the book, Welcome to the Monkey House, the author, Kurt Vonnegut uses many themes that show the most important ideas in the short stories. For example, the author uses the themes of humanity, technology, friendship, warfare, money, and more. From these many themes, the two major ones I chose are fate and technology, because the author shows them more than just a few times and mentions them many times throughout the book, which makes me think that they have great meanings to him.
The first major theme is fate. Fate is the theme of several stories in the book. For instance, in a story called “EPICAC”, EPICAC, a machine, says the following, “I want to be made out of protoplasm and last forever so that Pat will love me. But fate has made me a machine.” (page 304) This quote shows that EPICAC does not last forever because of fate, which made it a machine, not a human. Kurt Vonnegut seemed to write, or treat, it in a way as if fate is something very powerful nobody could change. In another story called “Long Walk to Forever”, two people, a man and a woman, are fated to each other. Reading these two stories, I got the feeling that fate is something very important in the book and maybe …show more content…
For instance, in a story called “The Deer in the Works”, it says, “’Up that, and through the-,‘ Down crashed a hammer. ‘Turn left and keep going until you-,‘ An overhead crane dropped a stack of steel plates.” (page 234). This quote shows how technology drowns out the voice of humans. Kurt Vonnegut sees technology in a bad way, and believes it ruins nature and humanity. I agree and disagree with him at the same time. Technology helps make everyone’s lives easier, such as letting people search up anything they need on the internet. However, technology and machines distract people from the tasks they need to accomplish. I could see the author had big thoughts on the theme of
The first major theme is fate. Fate is the theme of several stories in the book. For instance, in a story called “EPICAC”, EPICAC, a machine, says the following, “I want to be made out of protoplasm and last forever so that Pat will love me. But fate has made me a machine.” (page 304) This quote shows that EPICAC does not last forever because of fate, which made it a machine, not a human. Kurt Vonnegut seemed to write, or treat, it in a way as if fate is something very powerful nobody could change. In another story called “Long Walk to Forever”, two people, a man and a woman, are fated to each other. Reading these two stories, I got the feeling that fate is something very important in the book and maybe …show more content…
For instance, in a story called “The Deer in the Works”, it says, “’Up that, and through the-,‘ Down crashed a hammer. ‘Turn left and keep going until you-,‘ An overhead crane dropped a stack of steel plates.” (page 234). This quote shows how technology drowns out the voice of humans. Kurt Vonnegut sees technology in a bad way, and believes it ruins nature and humanity. I agree and disagree with him at the same time. Technology helps make everyone’s lives easier, such as letting people search up anything they need on the internet. However, technology and machines distract people from the tasks they need to accomplish. I could see the author had big thoughts on the theme of