Billy Pilgrim as a Christ Figure in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.s Slaughterhouse

nightstick Pilgrim as a Christ Figure in Kurt Vonnegut jr.s carnage Five After reading the novel, Slaughterho intake Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., I found my self in a sense of blankness. The question I had to ask myself was, Poo-tee-weet?(Vonnegut p. 215). Yet, the answer to my question, according to Vonnegut was, So it goes(Vonnegut p.214). This in fact would be the root of my problems in trying to grasp the character of Billy Pilgrim and the life, in which he leads throughout the novel. The pilgrimage that Billy ventures upon is one of mass confusion, racecourse with insanity, fin completelyy followed by sanctuary, if layed out in a proper conviction order sequence. Billy is a victim, prophet, survivor, as well as a firm example of innocence and inspiration. The answer man in a society searching for answers. He is the advanced prophet. Yet, can Billy pilgrim be comp atomic number 18d to the, Savior, Himself? Is Billy molded after Christ? Arent we all prophets, if we a re children of divinity fudge? Is Billy a living testament of a new religion? These are the questions that need to be examined in order to full understand the essence behind the character of Billy Pilgrim. The first airfield that should be examined is the aspect of the pursuit of the acquired knowledge of being. Billy, who believes in the concept of destiny, without the use of free will, received this lesson from the aliens on Tralfamadorian. Mean piece of music, Jesus Christ gained his views supposedly from the manufacturing business Himself, by being the Son of the divinity fudge. Yet, the creator who controls all of life and knows all is extremely comparable to the citizens of Tralfamadorian. These four dimensional beings can see eon from beginning to end in any particular order and laugher a godlike role in existing by seein... ... Billy was to keep the time sequence of the universe in stable order. God touched the two men Jesus led by the Creator, while Billy was a follow er of science and time. Which god is the true God and from that which man is the Christ? Vonneguts Christ is of the modern gospel and is a actually convincing prophet. The idea is debatable either way and shall be argued for kinda sometime. Works CitedMartin, Robert A. Slaughterhouse-Five Vonneguts Domed Universe. CarrolltonNotes on Contemporary Literature, 1987 March, 172, p.5-8.Mustazza, Leonard. invariably Pursuing Genesis The Myth of Eden in the Novels of KurtVonnegut. Toronto Bucknell University Press, 1990. p. 102-115.New volition of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Nashville National PublishingCompany, 1968.Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five. New York Dell Publishing Co. 1982.