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Chapter 74
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Cat’s Cradle, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Science and Morality
Religion
Governance, Politics, and Nationhood
Absurdity and Meaninglessness
Summary
Analysis
Angela comes back to the house, with Julian Castle, who is wearing a white linen suit and has a “scraggly moustache.” John tells him that he has heard Julian is a follower of “Albert Schweitzer”; Julian retorts that John should tell Albert, if he ever meets Dr. Schweitzer, that he is no hero of his.
Julian has the typical garb of a westerner in the jungle. Albert Schweitzer was a philosopher and Christian missionary who made many ventures into Africa in order to convert people (though he was also critical of the behaviors of colonialists).
Themes
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