Sirens Of Titan Greek Mythology
...ons on Earth. The Titans were masters of the universe before they are prophesized to be dethroned by the gods. Yet the Titans attempted to prevent the prophecy from coming true, but their efforts fail and resulting in war between them and the gods. Zeus and the gods win the war and become the undisputed rulers of the universe. The war to dethrone the Titans represents the clash of the Martians and Earth. Vonnegut uses the Titans to represent the state of the dominant religions on Earth. Through the defeat of the Martians Earth is introduced to a new unifying religion, by Winston Niles Rumford, called “the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent” (Vonnegut 219). The Sirens allude to Rumford in his role of luring earthlings to Mars where they are doomed to face inevitable death. Furthermore, this image of Rumford is developed in his sermon to the people of earth. In the sermon Malachi Constant is to be reunited with Chrono and Bee, Rumford leaves the stage and enters a tree. “From somewhere up in the tree he spoke. His voice came not from the tree but the Gabriel horns on the walls. The crowd weaned its eyes from the leafy treetop, turned its eyes to the nearest loudspeakers” (Vonnegut 253). The crowd’s exuberance towards Rumford’s words and presence portray him as a having an intoxicating effect over the crowd. They hang on every word Rumford says in the sense that ...