Catch 22 Sociological Analysis

Sociological criticism
One major theme in Catch 22 was politics, the novel introduced corruption and incompetence of the military. Joseph Keller main intention was to show how capitalism corrupts with money and power. Which he did as in the novel the military officers where portrayed as corrupted solider who only listen to those with more money and power. Money in this society played the main role of corruption, with capitalism being built upon monopoly’s. Money was one of the main conflicts in this novel as the power it brought causes corruption.
A character in the novel named Milo was a symbol to capitalism and corruption. He would create deals based off of enterprise and keep track of shipments. Milo was a product of greed, he wanted to

Heller wanted to disprove war and show his own point of view of war. Culture in the 1950 was slowly being built upon way with the thought of war being good for the country. Heller wanted to condemn this thought and share his view of war having no such thing as victory but only losses. One of Hellen’s main points about war is calling it a paradox, as it won’t get better but will only get worse.
Heller’s novel introduced a strong exaggeration on the distortion of the justice system. The concept of the justice system is the typical innocent upon proven guilty but Heller reversed this concept by making innocents guilty until proven innocent. His goal was to show how the true form of the justice system was. Heller’s illustration of the justice system was also an element of segregation of the military, as there was a lot of bias within opinions of the

Many of the characters lived their life in discomfort just to extend their own life. Dunbar was one character who showed discomfort as he treasured it just to experience time slower and to live longer. Hellen is trying to show that fear controls and influences war, this shows that man’s true enemy is himself. Snowden’s death in the novel revealed to Yossarian that death is inevitable. With Snowden death, Yossarian had the sense of death and visualized ways he could die. This made him think more positively on life referring it to something precious and wanting to live life as long as possible. This is when the novel attempts to show that there’s more to life than