Meaninglessness of Vonneguts Cat s Cradle
In the novel Cat’s Cradle, some may find that Kurt Vonnegut created it in hopes of pure entertainment rather then to provide an actual theme to teach his readers. ... Cat’s Cradle contains a couple of themes, the most prominent being about the general meaninglessness of life. ... Early on, before the chapters of the book even began, Vonnegut approached the topic of meaninglessness. ... Further on in the story, a character by the name of Julian Castle throws a painting of Newt Hoenikker’s down a waterfall. This typically wouldn’t have proved anything, but the painting itself was about the meaninglessness of life, and Castle disproved one on the laws of gravity by doing so. ... He used this string to create a child’s game, cat’s cradle.