Billy Budd

On August 5, 1962 movie actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was was found lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. The cause of Marilyn Monroe death is an overdose on a drug called barbiturate poisoning, and a psychiatric team did the investigation termed its probable suicide. The investigators say that she drunk then of depression, She have been none for doing pills and drinking alot. She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in…

Slaughter house-five is a book about the life of a man named Billy Pilgrim. After his childhood, Billy goes to school to study to become an optometrist so that he could work for his fathers business. He ends up becoming drafted into the military and is sent to Germany. He returns and suffers 3 traumatic events. First of all he suffers from nervous collapse, then he gets into a plane crash and is the only one to survive, and finally while he is recovering from his crash his wife passes away.…

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model., Marilyn was famous for playing a “dumb blonde” characters in T.V shows and movies. Maryland died in 1962 and half a century later she is still a loved and inspirational icon. On the 15th of September 1954, a photographer named Sam Shae shot a worldwide known famous photo on Marilyn Monroe when her skirt flew up it was known as the “flying skit” photo. Sam idea was to use a picture from the movie theatre scene as a logo to promote an oncoming…

country. This glorification essentially leads to the popular belief and craving to become just like a ‘war hero’. However, this glamorization is highly inaccurate and distorts the truth of war. Through the usage of Edgar Derby’s, Roland Weary’s and Billy Pilgrim’s characterization, Vonnegut reveals the deception of glorifying the image of a courageous and masculine war hero, despite, the reality of war’s indiscriminate deaths and incompetent soldiers.…

from his father’s last breaths to solemn reminders of his father’s uncelebrated death, Wiesel demonstrates that the sadness of witnessing his own family’s death has stuck with him for decades. Finally, the trauma of war might be best exemplified by Billy Pilgrim, who suffers from PTSD caused by World War II. His most vivid memory is the brutally unnecessary firebombing of Dresden. He recalls, “When…

Vonnegut 's book, the main character, Billy Pilgrim goes through many hardships in World War Two. As Bill is thrown around in his travels in the great war, we get some insight into the horrific stories that he endures. Billy 's story really starts at the Battle of the Bulge where his newly assigned regiment was destroyed leaving Billy dazed and wondering behind enemy lines. There Billy found a squad that kept him alive while his sense of well being was becoming as Billy says “unstuck”. As they…

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is a great hostile to war novel that presents the character Billy Pilgrim who is a wannabe in the novel. Billy Pilgrim gets himself lost in the wake of battling in World War Two when his mental solidness is diminishing. Billy recounts the tale of being stole to an unusual planet and meeting Tralfamadorians, the planet's life. These outsiders know each minute that their life will experience; in this manner, they are with the exception of their destiny. Through…

Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros written in 1959 is one of his most famous works forming a part of the Post War Avant-Garde Drama of the Theatre of Absurd. Rhinoceros demonstrates Ionesco’s anxiety about the spread of inhuman totalitarian tendencies in society. Inspired by his personal experiences with fascism during World War II, this absurdist drama depicts the struggle of one man to maintain his identity and integrity alone in a world where all others have succumbed to the beauty of brute force…

experiences of Billy Pilgrim through the Dresden firebombing, and his life afterwards. Throughout the book, one can follow the theme of the devastation of war by examining the negative effects the war has had on Billy. The theme shows itself through Billy’s sleeping patterns and mental state, his “time traveling,” and the symbolism of the phrase “So it goes.” After becoming a prisoner of war during World War II, Billy returned to the United States and became a practicing optometrist. However,…

Instead, Vonnegut decides to explore the life of Billy Pilgrim, and in doing so, criticizes the banality of the war through the banality of Billy’s ensuing trauma. Vonnegut primarily does this by switching between two locations, one of the hopelessly lost world that Billy actually inhabits, and that of the Tralfamadorians, that embodies the escapism that Billy relies on to get through the sludge of his daily life. Earth is dark in Slaughterhouse-five. Billy rarely finds joy in it, and even in…