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 amber is one of the mainthemes of Kurt Vonneguts novel Slaughterhouse-Five orChildrens Crusade. Tom Stoppards bit 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 twoliterary works similar in, then? It is the central theme. Bothworks orient that we are physic exclusivelyy stuck in this world, our futureis already given, and we have no way of escaping our destiny.Both writers provide a little room for their charactersimagination which is, in my opinion, crucial item of bothliterary works. In this paper I will try to use Kurt Vonneg uts novel tohelp me point out the study theme of Rosencrantz and Guildensternare Dead and to explain and clarify the themes meaning and mainmessage. The main theme of Slaughterhouse-Five is expressed severaltimes throughout the novel. One of the examples is the modulationwhich 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, always haveexisted, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at allthe different moments just the way we can look at a stretch ofthe Rocky Mountains, for instance. (Vonnegut27) Another passage of the novel describes the theme more directly.It is the break-dance when the Tralfamadorians kidnap 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