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Irony And Satire In Joseph Heller's Catch 22

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You need a job to get experience in the working class, but every position you apply for continues to turn you down because they are looking for someone with more experience. You are stuck in a Catch 22. The author responsible for the coinage of this phrase is Joseph Heller, whose novel Catch 22 was published in 1961. He introduced a condemning theory--Catch 22--of an inconsistent situation bearing contradictory rules, rendering its victims trapped in a loop. This paradoxical idea reverberates through the entirety of the book, and introduces an ever-present theme of irony and satire in relation to war. Despite including serious horrors of warfare, Heller brilliantly mocks the international hierarchical institution of war using various forms
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