Postmodernism is a genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
There are many ways that Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle is that of a post modernism theme. This novel contains a post modernism theme through religion, and truth. Through lies, and short poems, Bokonon spreads his religion to everyone that they think is in their karass. Having it become the "center" of the society, Bokonon manipulates people beliefs by having different rules added upon the others on a daily bases making it hard for the people to know what is right from wrong. Where as John states that he was once a "Christian then" allowing us to believe that there was a time where the people did have a more structure guide line such as the Bible, compare to Bokonon "Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either" (5-6). Postmodernism is also apparent when he mentions the game Cat's Cradle, even though you can not see an actual cat or cradle the people know it is there without even questioning it, like how we know green is go and red is stop. The game show humans stupidity to believe in faiths that can be completely non-sense. Christianity has a religion based on "truth" and "living" making it, its center, Bokonon has their based on "lies" and "false" having them have a center that really does not exist allowing them to prosper in anything without really giving any thought into it. Vonnegut shows the comparison of postmodernism through the two religion allowing us to see the contrast of modernism and postmodernism with in the text.
