Kurt Vonnegut's Role In The Ghost Shirt Society

There is satire on people by comparing them with machines. According to them most of the engineers and managers resemble Grath and Kroner in the United Nations. They express their aims of society to the engineers and the managers. But Paul cannot show his feeling even though he is a leader of the Ghost Shirt Society. Paul Proteus’s failure results in anxiety and frustration. If Paul had lived a life meaningfully, his purpose would have got its result. Kurt Vonnegut’s hero is disturbed subjectively and emotionally after seeing the behavior of the world. The role played by Paul is the bitter experience of Kurt Vonnegut in the American society. The bitter experiences of people in war time everything is portrayed in his novel to make the world realize its own

Even in agriculture, they sow seeds in Airplane. With the help of EPICAC, the Reconstruction and Reclamation Corps selecting engineers, managers, research men and civil servants based on their I.Q. Based on their aptitude levels, useful men are separated from useless men. In these personnel machines are working for governmental job and filled with civil servants. In the novel, EPICAC technology shows as: “the best friend I ever had, God rest his soul” on the other hand, the machine is “just like a toast error a vacuum cleaner” (297).
Paul did not have any idea to do about the society. Paul had depended upon the Society to change the world, but not. At the end of the novel, Vonnegut suggests that the most serious threat to man’s freedom and dignity comes not from the machine but from man himself. This shows that definitely the people of Ilium replace those little boxes.
Many episodes Paul Proteus shows his feeling towards nature. “He knew with all his heart that the human situation was a frightful botch, but it was such a logical intelligently arrived-at botch that he could not see how history could possibly have led anywhere else”