Kurt Vonnegut’s Novel Cat’s Cradle

In the deceptive rhetoric of the prophet Bokonon, "God made mud, God is lonely, so God was full of some mud," Sit down! "(Vonnegut 220). Therefore, people were created. Unfortunately, due to all mud, we decide that the only thing missing in life is the way to end it. Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Cat's Cradle" is ironically noticing the myopicity and arrogance of human beings accepting new technologies. In the novel, Dr. Felix Hoenikker, one of the bomb designers who landed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, invented a method for military commanders to solidify a muddy battlefield on a hard surface, ideal for traversing tanks and soldiers Did.

Kurt Vonnegut's fictitious novel "Cat's Cradle" is indirectly exploring issues similar to topics such as religion, progress in science / technology, political power. Vonnegut's novel is spoken by a character named Jonah. Jonah began writing a book of anthropology. And it was based on what was done on the day people dropped the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Through Vonnegut's novels, it clearly shows how artists become disruptive citizens. Regarding this novel, the use of parallel lines indicates that the writer can become a highly disruptive social person. It is a destructive person. society

Satire and Surrealism at Cat's Cradle in Kurt Vonnegut In 1963, Kurt Vonnegut published his second novel The Cradle of Cats. This is an ironic criticism of pain of our society, the end of surrealism about that fate. Through the use of irony and irony, he challenges and reveals social flaws, while questioning his intelligence. Nothing about his satire pen is safe. He attacks science and religion with the same strength. He created a novel and left "a sign that will not disappear for the entire generation of readers" (back cover).

If you only read 1 Kurt Vonnegut's book, it must be a cradle of a cat. The novel represents a dark Vonnegut humor, an absurd appreciation, and his love of a true paradox. To the Cats cradle, Vonnegut used absurd denton, the new religion called Bokononism, although he knew that this time it helped people and not true in this sense, life It is necessary to convey the meaning of. The cat's cradle is mainly Caribbean island of San Lorenzo. An island instead of the whole earth. Although San Lorenzo is a huge 'lukewarm water' sea of ​​small plots of land, it is a small rocky planet floating in a ruthless universe. The metaphor seems to be very dark, as the island is described as the most unpopular to other countries, and because the residents' living quality has been poor. It constitutes the necessity of religion this very dark view of life