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essay on Cat's cradle novel - 800 words
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The thesis of the novel written by Vonnegut was to show or to narrate about the failure of
science. Vonnegut used some jokes as a way to illustrate that the narrow spotlight of science to
be uneven to the real temperament of life. Some of the jokes as indicated in chapter 11 page 24
of the book when Dr Asa Breed address the graduates at Ilium High School and requests the
graduates to get vocation in science because “ science is going to realize the essential
clandestine of life someday”
According to Vonnegut the ordinary hope of the nineteenth and twentieth century
that science would set aside the world was demolished in this lampoon on the letdown of
science which was basically represented by the atomic bomb the scientist revealed the atom
only to utilize it to as a weapon to demolish life. When the first atomic boom was tested New
Hoenikker stated that science has now known sin. This basically meant that science is that point
that science is mostly an unethical body of comprehension that ends ups in the hands of the rude
and greedy.
Based on the recent occurring over the world, Vonnegut was right about the failure of
science. Most of the research conducted in most of the science lab are basically to help solve a
problem or to prevent something terrible from destroying the lives of other people. However,
some of the experiment and research bring the outcome that is lethal to the people. Instead of the
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scientist concentrating on the main aim of the research, they start concentrating on the part that
can harm other people. Ironically, the research on how a certain chemical can be used to
manufacture a given weapon is generously funded by greedy people so that they can acquire
power over the other people. This is a clear indication of a failure of science. The invention of
atomic boom which is one of the deadliest weapons originated from a science research with
resulted in the discovering of an atom...