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“God Damn It, You’ve Got to Be Kind”: War and Altruism in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut
Rachel McCoppin
- pp 47-65
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The anti-war message in many of Vonnegut's novels was expressed in the Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) as discussed by the authors, which states that it is pointless to write an antiwar book because wars are as easy to stop as glaciers.Abstract:
World War II is a central component in many of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels; he uses the topic of war to advocate altruism. As stated in Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Vonnegut understands that it is pointless to write an antiwar book because wars are “as easy to stop as glaciers,” yet, arguably, many of his novels still impart an antiwar message.read more
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The Economy of Desire in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors of the Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) novel reveal the repressive micropolitics underpinning not only the modern war machine but an entire social order as well.
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The Painter and the Muse: On Archetypes, Complexes and the Anti-Jungian Quest for Mother in Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard
Ankit Raj,Nagendra Kumar +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the main characters, mostly women, in Vonnegut's Bluebeard, in a psychoanalytic framework based on the studies on archetypes and complexes by Carl Jung, Robert Moore, Douglas Gillette, and Joseph Campbell.
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