Catch22-第二十二条军规课件.pptx

1、Catch-22 Dalin Wang1.Catch-22(work,paradoxical,)2.Background3.Plot Overview4.Character Analysis5.Themes6.Writing TechniquesContentCatch-22 is a satirical novel which was first published in 1961.It is set during WWII in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth

2、century.It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration,describing events from different characters points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.1.Catch-22(paradoxical)insane so can be grounded claim insane only prove sane,can not be

3、 grounded a Catch-22 situation:an impossible situation because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing,but you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing.相互矛盾的困窘 Eg.Its a Catch-22 situation here.Nobody wants to support you until youre successful,but without the support how ca

4、n you ever be successful?1.Nazis butcher:atomic bomb,peoples panic2.Cold war:Mccarthyism,mutural fear and hostility3.The Korean War and Vietnam War4.Assassination of Kennedy and Martin Luther King,Feminism,anti-war movement,Water-Gate scandal5.American dream disillusion3.Plot Overview WWII,Yossarian

5、 and his squadron stationed on Pianosa.They endure a nightmarish,absurd existence defined by bureaucracy and violence.(inhuman resources,brutal combat situations,good aerial photographs,number of missions inscreasing,a war going on in Yossarians mind,crazy)3.Plot Overview Yossarians story,core of th

6、e novel,events refracted through his point of view,take the war personally,not swayed by national ideals,furious when life in danger,desire to live,so in hospital,faking illness to avoid war,troubled by his memory of Snowden,him in ridiculous,absurd,desperate,tragic circumstances-friends disappear,b

7、ombed by own men,top dogs merciless.3.Plot Overview Nately died in mission when falling in love with a whore who blamed Yossarian and tried to kill him.Milo claims every has a share,but false.Arrested in Rome,2 choices-court martial or home honorable(support,agree 80 missions).Desert army,flee to Sw

8、eden,goodbye to dehumanizing cold machinery of the military,rejects the rule of Catch-22,a future in his own control.4.Character Analysis Yossarian:protagonist,alienated,insane outsider,anti-hero,avoid risking life,morbid life philosophy,illogical world(life threated by missions),logical to survive,

9、self-preservation,in conflict by friends death,when have to make a choice,between,formed his own Catch-22-no mortal concern about others,meaningless life;if yes,life in danger,flee,liberate 4.Character AnalysisMilo Minderbinder:representing capitalist free enterprise,brilliant and insane,black marke

10、t to make money,bend his rules for money,liked by everyone;however,bomb own squadron because of the deal with Germans,becoming evil,evil force can not be controlled,show capitalism transending political ideology,acceptance of payment to show everyone values money.4.Character AnalysisConolel Cathcart

11、:ambitious,unintelligent officier in charge of Yossarins squadron,want to be a general,try to impress his superiors by volunteering his men for dangerous cobat,increasing flying numbers 4.Character AnalysisChaplain:war making him doubt about God,struggle to maintain his faith,religion as a tool for

12、officier to have promotion;when accused,realised innocence does not matter,war destroys moral and ethical codes,lost his way in such an absurd world.5.Themes 5.1 The Absolute Power of Bureauracy 5.2 Loss of Religious Faith 5.3 The Impotence of Language 5.4 The Inevitability of Death6.Writing Techniq

13、ues5.1 Structure Formless formation Repetitious Scenes Bewildering Chronology(psychological time)5.2 Black Humor,(example)5.3 Parody,example 5.4 Symbolism5.5 Anti-hero Black humor,also called“black comedy”,or“comedy of the absurd.”Compared with traditional,black humor is more close to satire,meaning

14、 a kind of humor including both comic and terrible.Black humor writers usually break the convention,making the plot illogical,mixing the reality with fancy and reminiscence,seriousness with playfulness.“Youre dead,sir,”one of his two enlisted men explained.Doc Daneeka jerked his head up quickly with

15、 resentful distrust.“Whats that?”“Youre dead,sir,”repeated the other.“Thats probably the reason you always feel so cold.”“Thats right,sir.Youve probably been dead all this time and we just didnt detect it.”(p.341)Parody means the hyperbolic,distorted,ironic imitation of contemporary social phenomena

16、 or historical events as well as the structures,themes,genres of classic works,making them look preposterous,burlesque and absurd,thus criticizing the conventional and historical sense of value from the literary angle.Merchant of Venice,Shylok says the following words in Act three:“I am a Jew.Hath n

17、ot a Jew eyes?Hath not a Jew hands,organs,dimensions,senses,affections,passions?fed withthe same food,hurt with the same weapons,subject to the same diseases,healed by the same means,warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer,as a Christian is?If you prick.us,do we not bleed?”Parody of The Merc

18、hant of Venice,If they pricked him,didnt he bleed?And if he was tickled,didnt he laugh?It seemed never to have occurred to them that he,just as they,had eyes,hand,organs,dimensions,senses and affections,that he was wounded by the same kind of weapons they were,warmed and cooled by the same breezes and fed by the same kind of food.”(P277-278)Parody of T.S.Eliots poem The Waste LandThank You for Your Attention!