Post-war Insanity
"This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of
tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from." Insanity is
a major theme in Kurt Vonnegut's life and in turn his novels tend to be a release
for his thoughts of mental illness. Vonnegut's characters tend to embody him
or at least characteristics of himself. His characters generally suffer from mild
insanity and therefore hints that Vonnegut himself is possibly mildly insane. In
each of his novels there are characters that are highly related to Vonnegut such
as Kilgore Trout, Billy Pilgrim, and Eliot Rosewater. Each of these characters
appear in different novels to help develop the plot and continue the relative
theme. The theme of insanity is what dominates the novel Slaughterhouse-Five,
and is what ties all aspects of the tale together.
In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five there is a character that is identical to......
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