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    Kurt Vonnegut once said, “We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” In this case, Vonnegut pretends to be science fiction writer, when in reality, he is writing about a million other things - kindness, peace, hope, religion, the human spirit - in which he has no obligation to be careful about who he pretends to be. Vonnegut’s work goes far beyond the traditional realm of a fiction writer, propelling him to be a form of a legend within the literary world. Kurt

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    themselves in risky situations where they have to make a tough choice. Most people aren't daring enough, and they wouldn’t gamble with their safety. Risk, and the process of making decisions, is a strategy that is prevalent in Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut uses this strategy to show the conflicts and decisions that characters in his stories had to make. The use of conflict and decisions are used in the stories A Long Walk to Forever and Next Door Doing this reveals an aspects of the

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    conditions. This often involves a leader who silences people by restricting their power and limiting them to a lifestyle that is unsatisfactory compared to the elite in society. Through the novel 1984 and short story 2081, authors George Orwell and Kurt Vonnegut introduce readers to the idea of inhumanity by means of mentally incapacitating citizens and holding them at equal rankings through means of oppression. In Orwell’s 1984 and Vonnegut's 2081, inhumanity is imposed on the citizens by the

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    awareness and at the same time give an alarm to the society. Kurt Vonnegut tries his level best in imprinting the evils of scientific development and warns what is to be done to improve the life of mankind better. The advancement

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    analyse the relationship between physical and psychological escape as reflected in Su Tong’s “Fleeing in 1934”, Yu Hua’s “1986”, and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Textual analysis reveals that Su Tong’s delineation of escape is external but the influence becomes internal as villagers’ morality has been lost as a result of the escape, whereas Yu Hua and Kurt Vonnegut’s representation of escape emphasises the psychical escape when both protagonists in the novels look for derangement as a means

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    A Streetcar Named Desire is a modern play which was written much ahead of it’s times. The protagonist Blanche Du Bois is “moth-like” and “incongruous to (the) setting”. A moth and its delicate nature give us a clue to the kind of person Blanche is. Blanche is a southern belle who has lost everything a person would hold dear. She has lost her family home Belle Reve, lost her job as a school teacher and has also lost her husband whom she found to be homosexual. Each loss seems to have taken Blanche

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    this form of poststructuralist psychoanalysis can do is explain someone’s behavior by deconstructing their experiences while in their developmental phase. I will apply this to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five to explore the cause of Billy Pilgrim’s actions and ways of thinking. It shouldn’t be new that American author, Kurt Vonnegut,

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    Do movies shape the way we see things? “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut has had an impact on the dystopic genre and has gone on to influence many movies, books, and other forms of media. However, for such a prolific work of literature, there only seem to be two movie adaptations of Vonnegut’s short story. The first movie adaptation was Harrison Bergeron, made in 1995, and directed by Bruce Pittman (this will be referred to as Harrison Bergeron 1995). The other movie adaptation was 2081 directed

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    By juxtaposing thought-like text that reads as an internal voice with telegraphic and candid statements, George Saunders’ language in Pastoralia remains rather structurally consistent; however, works to convey various sentiments through dictional and contextual differences. Whether the sentiment be darkly humorous, hopefully despairing, or regretfully reflective, George Saunders depicts the malaise of everyday life as dystopian. With a minimalistic science fiction setting, the idea that our current

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    Comparing Old to Modern Everyone must do as I say at once (Vonnegut 54)!!”. There are about two fourths of other countries that still live in a dystopian society today. The story Harrison Bergeron and the hungry games are considered an example of one of a dystopian because they basically are owned by an emperor or controlled by a government; they had to do as their ruler say or they could face serious consequences. “Struggling with depression” Harrison and the hungry games are both considered to

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