Stoppards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five :: comparison compare contrast essays

Stoppards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern argon Dead and Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five That we, people, are bugs in gold is one of the mainthemes of Kurt Vonneguts novel Slaughterhouse-Five orChildrens Crusade. Tom Stoppards play Rosencrantz andGuildenstern are Dead is, in my opinion, very similar to thisbook. While Slaugterhouse-Five is an American novel, a mixture ofthe authors Second World War experiences and science fictiongenre, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is a British playset into William Shakespeares Hamlet. What are these bothliterary work similar in, then? It is the central theme. Bothworks show that we are physically stuck in this world, our time to comeis already given, and we rent no way of escaping our destiny.Both writers provide a little mode for their charactersimagination which is, in my opinion, crucial item of bothliterary works. In this paper I will try to use Kurt Vonnegu ts novel to assist me point out the major theme of Rosencrantz and Guildensternare Dead and to explain and clarify the themes meaning and mainmessage. The main theme of Slaughterhouse-Five is expressed several(prenominal)times throughout the novel. One of the examples is the passagewhich shows (from the view of the Tralfamadorians -- alienbeings) that the future is given and that one cannot change it. All moments, past, present, and future, eer haveexisted, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at allthe different moments besides the way we can look at a stretch ofthe rocklike Mountains, for instance. (Vonnegut27) Another passage of the novel describes the theme more directly.It is the part when the Tralfamadorians bunco Billy Pilgrim andhe asks why?. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this