Catch第二十二条军规.pptx

1.Catch-22(work,paradoxical,)2.Background3.Plot Overview4.Character Analysis5.Themes6.Writing TechniquesContent第1页/共20页Catch-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 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.第2页/共20页1.Catch-22(paradoxical)insane so can be groundedclaim insane only prove sane,can not be groundeda 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 can you ever be successful?第3页/共20页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 disillusion第4页/共20页3.Plot Overview WWII,Yossarian 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)第5页/共20页3.Plot Overview Yossarians story,core of the 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,bombed by own men,top dogs merciless.第6页/共20页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 Sweden,goodbye to dehumanizing cold machinery of the military,rejects the rule of Catch-22,a future in his own control.第7页/共20页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,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 第8页/共20页4.Character AnalysisMilo Minderbinder:representing capitalist free enterprise,brilliant and insane,black market 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.第9页/共20页4.Character AnalysisConolel Cathcart: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 第10页/共20页4.Character AnalysisChaplain:war making him doubt about God,struggle to maintain his faith,religion as a tool for 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.第11页/共20页5.Themes5.1 The Absolute Power of Bureauracy5.2 Loss of Religious Faith5.3 The Impotence of Language5.4 The Inevitability of Death第12页/共20页6.Writing Techniques5.1 Structure Formless formation Repetitious Scenes Bewildering Chronology(psychological time)5.2 Black Humor,(example)5.3 Parody,example 5.4 Symbolism5.5 Anti-hero第13页/共20页 Black humor,also called“black comedy”,or“comedy of the absurd.”Compared with traditional,black humor is more close to satire,meaning 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.第14页/共20页“Youre dead,sir,”one of his two enlisted men explained.Doc Daneeka jerked his head up quickly with 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)第15页/共20页 Parody means the hyperbolic,distorted,ironic imitation of contemporary social phenomena 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.第16页/共20页Merchant of Venice,Shylok says the following words in Act three:“I am a Jew.Hath not 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?”第17页/共20页Parody of The Merchant 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 Land第18页/共20页Thank You for Your Attention!第19页/共20页感谢您的观赏！第20页/共20页