Once in a while, literary work is created that stirs up many minds, seems to never go away. Those books usually speak out about something that is deeply rooted in society; Evil, they speak out against it. One of those works is Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It is a masterpiece of modern writing. As the story in the book unravels, there are several recurrent themes, stated through a variety of literary techniques.

The most striking theme is self-righteousness versus evil. Amazingly enough, Vonnegut, reveals self-righteousness as a force for evil. In the name of justice, a glorious end to a war, man commits injustice; bombing of Dresden. By the same means the author uses the feeling of nationalism. Nationalism makes people ... Showed first 120 words of 2124 Size (words) ...

... Continuing with another 115 out of 2124 Size (words) ... Just as disillusioned as Stern was another critic and author, Michael Crichton. In his review in new republic (April 26,1969), he reports same mixed feelings that Stern had. He finds that Vonnegut is one of the few writers being able to examine the garbage of society and humorously examine the contents, but tends to get to serious and heavy at times. This is the reason for which some people may find Vonnegut to tough to read, his tone implies that he himself found Vonnegut to be a difficult reading at the least.

Vonnegut is a writer that seems to be very disillusioned and ass such he may find a wide ...Essay still continues 100 more words...