Rhetorical Devices In Cat's Cradle

In the novel, Cat’s Cradle, the author Kurt Vonnegut criticizes the progress of technology combined with human stupidity foreshadowing the destruction of mankind. Throughout Vonnegut’s humorous story, supports his stance by mocking particular events with sarcasm. He does this by dismantling the image representing the ideal father of the atomic bomb. Additionally, religion was used to manipulate people into dictatorship creating a religion called Bokononism. Vonnegut’s purpose was to ridicule the religious and scientific views of the time. Vonnegut’s sarcastic tone with his readers implies that the events within the book were purposely set up to create a parody for the corresponding