Religious Allusions in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

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.

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

In addition to sarcasm, Vonnegut used many apocalyptic suggestions at Cat's Cradle. First, the Apocalypse is related to every extensive or extensive destruction or disaster. In most cases, the apocalypse is related to religious beliefs and will soon be the second appearance. At Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut hinted at a catastrophe, did a wonderful work, and laughed at the belief that the second coming would bring great hope for humanity. He implied revelation by mentioning fire and ice. As most readers know, this is Robert Frost's poem "fire and ice" hint. But by mentioning the atomic bomb, the world may be destroyed by fire, and of course you can see