Free Will In Vonnegut's

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The plot of the story, are the events that took place in Howard W. Campbell Jr’s life, from when he was a Nazi propagandist and American double agent up to his imprisonment in Israel. In prison, he tells about his time as a dual agent and the troubles he went through trying to live a double life. Which is one of the main plots of the Novel, if one lives as two people for too long, which one is the true self? Or maybe the character was not uncomfortable with the situation because if you are two separated beings, you’re half one and never complete, which means unconsciously you never feel one hundred per cent attached to anything thus being able to justify even the most stupid or cruel acts done. Campbell in the novel was a playwright, so he was used to manipulating whatever he needed in order to achieve a more suitable end, as a writer manipulates his story for a better end. The irony of the situation was that Campbell himself is manipulated throughout the book just like the characters in his stories are; first by the Nazi, then the Americans, and then again by the Russians. As in most of Vonnegut’s works, a common idea that can be found is the concept of free will (or the absence of it). Some of the major characters in Vonnegut’s stories struggle with their own choices and the dilemma of accepting fate,…show more content…
Vonnegut says that “Everything that happens Must happen”, and there’s nothing men can do to stop it, the book still goes on by saying that it is pointless to write a “Anti-war” novel as it is to write a “Anti-glacier” novel; it is impossible to avoid the
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