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Analysis Of Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano

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Paul ever thinks about the evil things that erases humanity in men. At that time a light suddenly has flashed. He sees his face in the mirror which is framed by fluorescent lamps. In that, “Over the mirror was the legend, THE BEST MAN IN THE WORLD FOR THE BEST JON IN THE WORLD” (221).Kurt Vonnegut’s main intention is to express his view about machines and according to him human beings are more valuable than machines. Many characters in the novel express the view of their own experience against machines. Kurt Vonnegut likes to kindle humanity among the members in the society as he strongly believes thatthere is no free will for humans. Here he compares human beings in the society with lack of freewill to the machines which are controlled …show more content…

For that Vonnegut criticizes the extreme faith in lawless technological progress rather than modern technology. Without any technological progress the society cannot develop.Hence more machines are introduced which erases the traces of humanity among men. This is the indication of defeated society. Kurt Vonnegut expects to create a good society and through his novel Player Piano he tries to prevent the defeated or less competent individuals in the society. According to Paul …show more content…

Everybody in the world is money minded.Materialistic people destroy the human feeling which is clearly depicted in the novel Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut.He calls their atrocity as an offensive act and this idea is articulated by his character Paul on his trial. Through the character Paul, Kurt Vonnegut tries to convey the idea that people are not goods or machines without feelings or emotions. He adds that human beings are different from machines. They have a family to be maintained. Machines are destroying the happiness of their family and killing the humanity. Society acts as per the dictum of a fewwhich can be considered as a mechanical drama and a gestural reproduction of mass ideology. The dreadful play is forced by the engineers who sit at the meadows business conference. Their aim is not to improve the standard of life of everyone in their society but the people from the upper class which is a very dangerous sign for

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