Life in general gives you two options. Either we accept them or we do something that will lead us to that destiny. It’s a tramp. We fall into it. Catch-22 it’s a perfect example of the way people fear. How people and war it’s not a good combination. War won’t just help.
I think there is a few options towards the theme of the book. Each person in the book tries to have some integrity towards themselves. Wars and life. Each person tries to save themselves. But they are also afraid of war. At the beginning, Yossarian tries to actually save up something.
Death and war happen inevitability in Catch-22. It is the society versus the war. Which if they are not careful, they will probably die. They can either pretend they are sick like Yossarian. Maybe they can keep going to
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Everyone in the war seems insane. And they seem to glorify war thinking it will solve problems when in reality, it’s just causing more… I mean, Yossarian wants to live on forever and ever. Something he is not able to control. Not even trying to avoid the war. Death is something that comes naturally to us. All of them have fear. Yossarian has a big fear of getting out there into war. Yossarian has paranoia, a mental condition where he suspects of everyone around him, but why not suspect of everyone?
I think, Yossarian’s paranoia is a somehow normal state to live on when all your surroundings is either death, hospitals or wars. While he tries to escape from everything and it make him look like a coward, it’s actually anyone would do, when afraid to die. We would try to escape anything that we fear.
When pretending to be sick, the doctors probably know it. Or not. In chapter 18, page 169, the officer knows that the problem of Yossarian and his liver is fake. It’s a mystery but he knows he is lying. “My father died of cancer of the liver, and he was only sick the day he died”. So, He is pretty smart (Yossarian) by saying he sees everything