An Analysis of Slaughterhouse-Five with Sartre’s Existentialism
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In Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut uses the techniques of science fiction and postmodernism to describe the painful moments in Billy’s life, exhibiting the absurdity of war, death and life, the loss and alienation of human nature, and helplessness as well as indifference to death. This paper will employ Sartre’s existentialism to explore how to transcend the absurdity of life and overcome severe trauma on the body and mind caused by World War II, in an attempt to find the essence of life and restore confidence in life.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i24.5364
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