Apocalyptic Creativity in Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s Cat’s Cradle

Abstract

Vonnegut being a post modern writer has tried to give his shot in science fiction. Cat’s Cradle is one such creation in which he has focused on apocalypse. Here Vonnegut strictly follows St. John’srevelation on apocalypse, which is mainly based on darkness, fire, and water. In Cat’s Cradle, he took water as his subject for apocalypse to give it both attributes ofdisaster, and a prophetic revelation. In the present paper I have made my best possible effort to analyze how the cat’s cradle is appropriate to the title of the research paper. Cat’s cradle is one of the novels which fall under Vonnegut’s apocalyptic tradition and one among the apocalyptic trilogy.Cat’s cradleis an apocalyptic creativity which I have tried to bring forth and discussed in my paper.