Vonnegut’s Crusaders

About Vonnegut’s Crusaders

Podcast discussing issues found in Slaughterhouse-Five and relating it back to modern day issues.

Publisher

Matt Durkin

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Mar 2021

Latest episode

31 Mar 2021

Latest episodes

3 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Mar 2021

   The Mentality and Perception of Life After War

   In this episode we will be discussing the perception in the novel, how military and war experiences, and the similarities with the mentalities of Billy Pilgrim and Kurt Vonnegut.

2. 

   21 Mar 2021

   The Trauma and Reality of War

   In this episode will we be discussing Billy’s time jumps and how the novel seems to be written from an outside perspective that examines society, soldiers and people who have been through trauma and how they can recover from it, and reasons why soldiers like Lazzaro enlist along with soldiers today.

3. 

   15 Mar 2021

   The Mental Effects of War

   We will be focusing on the topics of ptsd, how different types of people react to war, and periodic hallucinations in Slaughterhouse-Five and we will relate it back to how all these topics are still very prevalent today.