Slaughterhouse Five MAdness

Throughout The Slaughter House Five numerous signs of delusion and “madness” arise
in the emotional twists and turns of the main character, Billy Pilgrim. If we go into the
state of mind that Billy is in and journey to the absolute core of his “madness” we can
then begin to unravel this madness and really start to realize it is not madness yet the
shallowness of a race that cannot accept anything other than what they can emotionally
and physically encounter.

Billy, the novel’s protagonist, has become “unstuck in time,” and he travels
between moments of his life, unable to control his time travel. His first occurrence of
time travel begins in World War 2 just before his capture by the Germans in the Battle of
the Bulge...