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Slaughterhouse-Five. In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, the author uses the Tralfamadorian philosophy and the protagonist Billy Pilgrim's easy acceptance of it to enhance his anti-war theme. The Tralfamadorians, a fictional alien race from the planet Tralfamadore, see in the fourth dimension, time. They describe their view of time as looking at a stretch of mountains, with the choice to focus on whatever they wish. The entire stretch of time exists simultaneously. Humans, they say, have no control over which moment they see. Vonnegut uses this idea of simultaneity of events and Billy Pilgrim's acceptance of it as a commentary on war and modern society. Vonnegut uses irony to affect the reader throughout the book, but it is most effectively used as a device to convey his anti-war theme. As a Tralfamadorian says to Billy of the Tralfamadorian test pilot who destroys the universe at the press of a button, "He has always...

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