Billy Pilgrim Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Billy Pilgrim? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Billy Pilgrim from Slaughterhouse Five and what is the personality traits.
INTP (6w5)
Billy Pilgrim personality type is INTP, like the protagonist in Slaughterhouse-Five. In the novel, Pilgrim is a captured German POW during World War II, who suffers from severe war trauma. He is a character who cannot or will not accept that he has been or is being bombarded with information from the outside world, but rather that the world acts on him. In this way he is a victim of a world perceived to be indifferent to him.
However, unlike a lot of characters who are victims of a perceived indifferent world, he does not give up or simply accept his position. He tries to escape death by suicide, and eventually succeeds. While the world is indifferent to him, Pilgrim has an inner world that he knows he has to decipher and understand if he is to survive.
In short, while Pilgrim is a victim of a perceived indifferent world, he uses his inner world to combat that fact and hopefully regain some autonomy.
In conclusion, it would seem that for many of us, it is a mistake to assume that our own sense of identity and autonomy is absolute. It is a mistake to assume that we do not have a choice in what happens to us.
Billy Pilgrim is a fictional character and the protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He appears in the film and theatrical adaptations of the novel as well. Michael Sacks portrayed Pilgrim in the 1972 film adaptation of the same name, which received positive reviews and won the Jury Prize at the 25th Cannes Film Festival. Vonnegut's comrade-in-arms Edward R. Crone Jr. was the role model for the character.
