CREATING A PLANET: A NEW HISTORICAL STUDY ON SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE

This research aims to focus on the narration in vonnegut’s slaughterhouse five by the help of new-historicist point of view. it is worth noticing that vonnegut wrote billy pilgrim’s adventures by the help of his own experiences. that is why this work might be taken as fictional memoir and factual individual perspective. whenever billy pilgrim remembers the things happened in dresden it is seen that he sets out for trafalmadore. pilgrim uses the planet of trafalmadore as a place to escape from the realities of the past. by creating a departure point from the brutal truths, pilgrim finds himself in a relaxing imaginary place. so, it can be argued that trafalmadore is used as a nest for a misfit. vonnegut lowers the curtain of trafalmadore to be able to underline the incidents happened in dresden. hence the more he softens the scenes of bloodshed, the easier it becomes to witness the death of the feelings.