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Mr. Desmond

1 October 2018

Motif in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five – Chapter 3

Vonnegut repeats certain images and words (MOTIFS) to convey themes, ideas, and values about war. In Slaughterhouse Five, these elements are essential to the novel’s coherence, since the plot is nonlinear. Keep track of the following motifs in the reading (examples below from Chapter 3) by providing several incidents that illustrate the motif (Incidents or scenes), then explain how each incident infuses the theme Vonnegut is conveying within the book, about American society, or about war in general.

Motif:

Sight vs. Insight Example: “Frames are where the money is.” (31) But Billy’s chosen profession is Optometry

Incidents or scenes

Examples:

The narrator informs us through a metaphor: Billy, who writes to the local paper and who speaks on late night radio, means to provide “corrective lenses for Earthling souls.” (36)

Explanation/Inference: Many of Billy’s confused experiences on Earth correlate to a more insightful understanding on Tralfamadore.

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Other Motifs:

Colors
Water
Spirituality vs. Materialism
Pictures
Victimizers and Victims

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