풍자가로서의 Kurt Vonnegut : Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade = Kurt Vonnegut as a Satirist

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Kurt Vonnegut(1921) reasserted the solid worth of human life, in his fiction, Slaughterhouse Five(1969). His Dresden experience was the quintessence of the absurd and the meaningless of life, and this gave his personal trauma experience. But he paradoxically emphasizes an universal significance of human being, by suggesting the means of curing his trauma. He shows good faith in future through the character, Billy Pilgrim who travels through time Vonnegut's writing contributes to the humor and human wormth, by countering the coldness of an alien world. His narrative technique to appeal human belief relates to humor and satire in the world of illusion and absurdity. This paper will show human condition and its existence in Tralfamadore and suggest good faith of human being predicted in Vonnegut's humor.
Vonnegut shows human stupidity and the human condition as the two chief obstacles to the achievement of the highest good Human stupidity leads men to kill, impinging upon the freedom of men to work out their own novel ends. The human condition on makes it impossible to arrive at any satisfactory fulfillment. For Vonnegut the symbol of human stupitity in Slaughterhouse Five is war in general and Dresden in particular. War makes animals out of the defeated and cruel tyrants out of the triumphant Vonnegut said hiself that "the Dresden atrocity, tremendously expensive and meiculously planned, was so meaningless."
The horror of war brings Eliot Rosewater and Billy pilgrim to the conviction that life is meaningless, and both try "to reinvent themselves and their universe " The means for the reinvention is the myth embodied in the fiction Vonnegut's humor that treats the pains of twentieth century existence is the humorous implicit of the existential absurd, and implies a degree of confidence. American humor tends to be short on such confidence, implying if not hopeless then a great deal of pessimism. For American humorist is feeling and expresses a compassinate concern for the human condition Behind such comedy is the vision of a society willing itself to its own inevitable destruction of man as a pawn in incomprehensible world. His absurd world is all used to make the point that even in a absurd universe we can learn to be kind, as Eliot Rosewater says. In a sense, Vonnegut's appeal is not the pretentious one of a social revolutionist, but a faithful appeal to look at the world afresh, to trust one's own senses and one's own reason In Vonnegut’s satire, one can throughly recognize the dangers and the foolishness of persisting the destruction, like in Dresden.
Vonnegut also sees himself as a funny writer What he presents as funny is often the irrational inhumanity of man the crazy meaninglessness of the universe. That is why much of his comedy acts not as comic relief, but as a poignant intensification of the tone of pain, weariness and indignation which permeates his fiction. This intensification of suffering reacts to a futuristic vision in which one can predict a better life. The bird's call reinforces the pattern of imagined happiness projected against the backdrop of slaughter Especially, springtime and massacre are linked in a never ending cycle of Imagination and death, regeneration and destruction. Spring has come to the ruins of Dresden, and when Billy is released from prison the trees are in leaf.
He finds himself in the street which is deserted except for one wagon. That composite image of generation and death summarizes all there is actually to see in the external world.
The fiction's one word conclusion "Poo tee weet?" becomes especially moving, for they bring about symbolic affirmation of life. One can recognize a moment of balance in Vonnegut's own life, when Vonnegut finds himself capable of dealing with the intense pain of his Dresden experience and ready to go on with the delicate business of living. Thus Vonnegut suggests a vision of good faith, like the reason why Eliot Rosewater is interested in science fiction the most in this sense, Vonnegut seems to offer a remedy for the past destruction and provide knowledge of the world and visions of the future which we need in order to survive in good faith. This lesson lies in Billy who eventually learns to look at all human effort, life and death, from weary eternity, seeing the passion of our planet as cosmically insignificant. Therefore, Kurt Vonnegut is satirist who predicts good faith in illusion and absurdity with humor and satire.

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