Theme Of Freedom In Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast Of Champions

Freedom can be described as free-will or the option to do whatever the self wants without an impediment. In Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut illustrates the question of controversy through the two characters, Kilgore Trout, and Dwayne Hoover. Vonnegut makes the reader question whether or not they have free-will by making Dwayne Hoover challenge his own possession or dispossession of freedom. Through the example of Dwayne Hoover and his belief that he is the sole person on Earth whom obtains freedom, it displays how while people might all think that they are individuals and obtain freedom themselves they really do not. Vonnegut presents the notions of freedom through his creation of language and words in the novel. In the novel, he says that he puts certain sentences or words in the text because he feels like it or, because he wanted to. This
Through the examples of Vonnegut writing phrases like “felt like it” and his telling of creation in the text, Vonnegut displays his power of freedom through words in language. Similarly, at the end of the novel it reveals the limitation to freedom and how it can not also be used to one's wants. Vonnegut traces freedom through Dwayne Hoover and his revelation that he is the only one on the Earth with free will. Though, this revelation does end up backfiring through further thinking. This is true because through Dwaynes revelation, the reader starts to believe that they are the only person with free will but, as there are a multiplicity of readers they all are seen as the same as all believe and think the same way as the other. The whole novel of Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut deals with free will and the power of freedom questioning if one has it or does not. From creation and language, freedom is widely explored in this comedic yet insightful view on whether or not humans posses