Sunday, December 12, 2010
Cats Cradle Postmodernism
Cats Cradle is a book that shows and has details that it is a post modernism novel. It shows a religion called Bokonism and it demonstrates religion and post modernism if you closely read the text. So far into the text of Cats Cradle there is no meaning thus far which is a post modernism text book. Post modernism was found during the 18th century, and it was a movement that tried to delete modernism. Post modernism does not essentially have a rounded center on it and has no one controlling source which it originates from. The Cat’s Cradle specifically used the example of Bokonism to show that the book is indeed post modernism.The founder of Bokononism was Lionel Boyd Johnson, whose name was corrupted by the island dialect and later become Bokonon. Bokononism contains the postmodernist misreading, combination and anarchy at once. Bokonism has a book and the text shows "All of the true things that I am to tell you are shameless lies." Vonecut's opinion on religion is actually drawn out that people always have a way to try to find some special thing to believe in. "Truth was the enemy of the people, because the truth was so terrible, so Bokonon made it his business to provide the people with better and better lies." so by deleting the false statements and the lies that the society displayed, they become very powerful. The characters in Cat’s Cradle who came up with Post modernism came to believe that science is the power in everything which can also be shown in a movie known as (Angels and Demons), science dominates the society also religion plays a big part in todays society. Obviously, these ideas of post modernism came from the scientist in the book. They intend to delude the people in the book by using these ideas. So while I was reading this book, I came to a conclusion that all of the books that we have read as a class have some ideal relationship to all the other books with religion and society. It seems rather boring and we suspect the same essay topic over and over again, but that is my opinion.
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