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Theme Of War In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

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The novel Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut dictates the many issues of war. One issue is war robs human beings of its morality; this is so unavoidable that war traps people until it has stolen their final shred of decency. Throughout the novel the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, is trapped and forced to endure awful situations. He is figuratively “trapped in amber” (77), stripped of his clothes put on display, and enclosed in a slaughterhouse with the dead carcasses of animals. A few of these times his only hope for survival is to stay in these tiny spaces and tolerate the inhuman circumstances. This re-enforces the idea the war imposes horrible situation on to people that are hard to stay morally correct in. When Pilgrim is kidnapped
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