第二十二条军规中的人物异化分析_本科毕业论文(编辑修改稿)

第二十二条军规中的人物异化分析_本科毕业论文(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

................................. 7 Man to Inanimate Object ..................................................... 10 3 Conclusion .......................................................... 1 错误 !未定义书签。 References ............................................................................................. 14 南通大学毕业设计（论文） 1 1 Introduction Joseph Heller (19231999) was the most prominent American novelist of black humor in the postwar period. Heller began working on his Catch22 around the time the Korean War was winding down and published it in 1961, just as another American War in Vietnam was getting under way. Although he has written a few more works, such as Something Happened, God Knows, Closing Time (the sequel to Catch22), centering on the lives of various members of the middle class and remaining examples of modern satire, he is primarily remembered for his Catch22 which occupies an important place in black humor and is the representative work of this group. The feature of black humor is seeing the humor in the dark and treating the dark with humor. The former refers to the world outlook of writers and the content of works, and the latter refers to life attitudes and creative attitudes. For black humor writers, the universe is absurd and no one is able to change the absurdity. Black humor writers are always affected by existentialism. Influenced by existentialism ideas, Heller thought the world fantastic, the life painful, the survival situation dire, and the environment around him unreasonable. Heller once served as a bombardier in the . Air Force during the WW II, flying missions out of Corsica over Italy. Such an experience later stimulated him to write the famous Catch22. With the narrative technique of exaggeration, he exposed confusion, terror and the absurdity in the social life pletely and showed people‟s horror and bemusement, just as John W. Aldridge claimed that, “Catch22 is a novel that reminds us once again of all that we have taken for granted in our world and should not, the madness we try not to bother to notice, the deceptions and falsehoods we lack the will to distinguish from truth” (John, 1986). Catch22 was written when Cold War between superpowers vitiated American‟s optimism aroused by the postwar prosperity. The story takes place in a United States Air Force base in the island of Pianosa in wartime Italy. There stands a military 南通大学毕业设计（论文） 2 hierarchy, wielding its preposterous authority over the lives of its wretched bomber pilots, who fear flying and wish to be grounded and escape death. In face of the increasing number of flying missions and the increasing chances of meeting death, the pilots are hopeless and desperate. Death and absurdity stalk the world, and everyone in Catch22 adopts their own way to struggle for living. Looming crisis, institutionalized chaos and the sense of life being absurd undercut the existence of man. Actually, it was the antimunist and the hysteria of McCarthy that contaminated the life in 1950s. Civil Right movement and the Vietnam War further plicated the turbulent situation. Besides that, an increasing sense of power, new advances in technology and science and the deprivation of the life mysteries continued to alienate human beings from nature. Consequently, people became skeptical about life. People‟s sincere faith in God and universe was shaken fundamentally then. Generally, in recent decades, studies about the novel at home and abroad have mainly concentrated on the analysis of theme, structure, narrative strategy, language arts, black humor, symbolism, and racism, ignoring the alienation phenomena in the work. Alienation is a prevalent phenomenon in the west as well as a theme in modern western literature. With its semantic richness, the concept of alienation itself provides a theoretical framework powerful enough to acmodate the study in various fields. This thesis will focus on the distortion and alienation of human nature caused by bureaucratcapitalism from the new perspective of the alienation of characters, so as to help readers to see through the theme of Catch22 and Heller‟s life attitude, creative attitude and his humanism concern. After the analysis of the alienation of the characters in the work, the thesis finally will point out that Heller‟s writing thought in Catch22 is his despair about the plights of human beings and his yearning for an ideal society. 2 Three Kinds of Alienated Human Nature 南通大学毕业设计（论文） 3 Characterization is one of the most important elements in novels. In Catch22, there are 42 chapters, of which 37 chapters are named after the name of the characters. However, Heller didn‟t offer much information about all those characters except Colonel Cathart, Lieutenant Scheisskopf, Milo Mindbinder, and John Yossarian etc... The characters can mainly be divided into the ruling class and the ruled class. The human nature of both the ruling class is distorted and alienated through dominating Catch22, while the human nature of the ruled class is distorted and alienated by Catch22. That means both the soul of the ruled class and the ruling class can‟t escape from the tenacious grip of Catch22. Human nature refers to the distinguishing characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling and acting, that humans tend to have naturally. This thesis is a tentative effort to analyze characters from the perspective of alienation. The basic meaning of alienation has “evolved from its Latin derivation alius (another) to alienus (belong to another country) then to alienates (estrangement)” (Cao Yafang, 2020: 46). One of its modern English meanings in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English is the feeling of not being part of society or a group. Alienation (German Entfremdung, also translatabl。