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

Billy Pilgrim as a delivery boy Figure in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.s Slaughterhouse Five After interlingual rendition the novel, Slaughterhouse 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, harmonize to Vonnegut was, So it goes(Vonnegut p.214). This in fact would be the root of my problems in arduous to grasp the character of Billy Pilgrim and the life, in which he leads through disclose the novel. The voyage that Billy ventures upon is one of mass confusion, running with insanity, finally followed by sanctuary, if layed out in a proper time order range. Billy is a victim, prophet, survivor, as well as a firm example of purity and inspiration. The answer man in a society searching for answers. He is the new prophet. Yet, can Billy pilgrim be compared to the, Savior, Himself? Is Billy shaped after Christ? Arent we all prophets, if we are children of God? Is Billy a living testa workforcet of a new religion? These are the questions that unavoidableness to be examined in order to fully understand the essence so-and-so the character of Billy Pilgrim. The first area that should be examined is the aspect of the quest 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. Meanwhile, messiah Christ gained his views supposedly from the creator Himself, by being the give-and-take of the God. Yet, the creator who controls all of life and knows all is extremely comparable to the citizens of Tralfamadorian. These cardinal dimensional beings can see time from beginning to end in any particular order and play a godlike mapping 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 follower 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 very convincing prophet. The idea is arguable either way and shall be argued for quite sometime. Works CitedMartin, Robert A. Slaughterhouse-Five Vonneguts Domed initiation. CarrolltonNotes on Contemporary Literature, 1987 March, 172, p.5-8.Mustazza, Leonard. Forever Pursuing Genesis The fable of Eden in the Novels of KurtVonnegut. Toronto Bucknell University Press, 1990. p. 102-115.New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Nashville National createCompany, 1968.Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five. New York Dell Publishing Co. 1982.