The Rationality In A Chaos

During the two world wars, human beings have experienced too many human disasters which are hardly imagined before. So when it is all ended, people cannot help asking themselves: what is wrong with human beings? How can people do things like that? Is there anything evil in the human nature? Many traditional social and moral principles have been suspected and some of them are even collapsed. There is a vacancy in people's mind so that they do know how to do in the future. In order to supply the gap, many scholars have tried to create some new ideas and thoughts. And they have also written many pieces on it. Catch-22 is just created in such a circumstance. The author of the novel is Joseph Heller who has personally experienced almost all the memorabilia of the former half of the twenty-century.Although the scholarship on Catch-22 since these early reviews has been largely confined to the concerns of the initial readers: Matters of social satire, black humor, war protest, absurdity, and structural organization, with only the occasional foray into comparative analysis, origins and influences, style, and the aesthetics of the novel, we can find some rational hints in the novel. In this thesis, we try to analyses in a different angle by using psychoanalytical approach.Chapter one introduces the historical and literary background information. And it alsoincludes the life time of the author and the brief summary of the novel.Chapter two, we make a literature reviews on Catch-22, from interview, bibliography and other material.. We also discuss about the methodologies that the critic often adopt.Chapter three, we make a specific examination on the- theory of the structure of personality related to the arrangement of the plot and the organization of the structure of the novel.Chapter four, we try to examine the application of the theory of the structure of personality in the novel in details.Chapter five, the conclusion.