THE TRAGIC HERO WITH TWO FACES: CAMPBELL IN VONNEGUT’S MOTHER NIGHT
THE TRAGIC HERO WITH TWO FACES: CAMPBELL IN VONNEGUT’S MOTHER NIGHT

Summary/Abstract: Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night, written in 1962, shares with its readers the war experience as seen by the author. Therefore, the action of the novel is narrated by Howard W. Campbell Jr., as the main character of a very complex war story. The hereby paper aims at the internal struggle within the protagonist which is gradually dramatized, making the reader ask himself if Campbell pretends only to be a Nazi or he is one and at Vonnegut’s special way of addressing other aspects of World War II, such as the power of words, rather than the power of bombs, to support the Nazi war effort in a war narrative where light and darkness are hard to distinguish.

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