CYBER DESPOTISM IN KURT VONNEGUT’S Cat’s Cradle

  • Dr. RajithaKumaran

Abstract

Cyber Literature is a word that has gained popularity with the dominance of technology that has shrunk the periphery of the world to palm size. Dependence on science has infused mechanization in culture and also in love. Science and its men have started becoming a threat for the human race in general. In Cat’s Cradle (1963), Kurt Vonnegut shows how the society functions as a fairy land but later it turns impotent to the human stupidity and greed, when the Postwar American scientists find a deadlier substance, ice-nine, that can turn all the water on the earth to ice. In this study the researcher has investigated Cat’s Cradle through the idea of cyber despotism that has reduced human beings to just pre- programmed robots that work without passion, sans mind, constantly in search of destructive power. The novel is a struggle to illustrate the indomitable stance the world takes leaving man helpless in the hands of science and scientists.  

Published
2020-08-01
Section
Articles