A time-travel through history and war : representing trauma in Kurt Vonnegut’s slaughterhouse-five

• Main Author: Tan, Klara Hui Wen
• Other Authors: Richard Alan Barlow
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::American
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62766
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

“You were just babies in the war—like the ones upstairs!” (Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five 18). A statement which drives home questions of the ethical foundations of war, Mary O’Hare’s poignant outburst is perhaps one of the most memorable lines in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1965). Vonnegut’...