声明
Acknowledgements
Abstract
摘要
Table of Contents
Introduction
0.1 Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five
0.2 Literature Review
0.3 R.D.Laing and His Theory
0.4 The Structure of the Thesis
Chapter One Billy’s Tragedy
1.1 Interpersonal Disjunction
1.1.1 Childhood and Family
1.1.2 War and Dresden Bombing
1.2 Internal Uncertainty
1.2.1 Billy’s “Ontological Insecurity’’
1.2.2 Billy’s Split Self
Chapter Two Billy’s Mask
2.1 Mental Disease of Billy
2.1.1 Billy’s Mental Breakdown
2.1.2 Billy’s Insanity
2.2 False Self of Billy
2.2.1 A Coward Soldier in War
2.2.2 A “Good’’ Husband in Marriage
2.2.3 Identity-for-others in Society
2.3 Physical Dissociation of Billy
2.3.1 Billy’s Unembodied Self
2.3.2 Billy’s Divorced Body
Chapter Three Billy’s Redemption
3.1.1 Billy’s Hallucination
3.1.2 Science Fiction
3.2 Tralfamadore
3.2.1 A Utopia:an Imaginary Homeland
3.2.2 A Spiritual Pilgrim
Conclusion
Works Cited