Analysis Of Catch 22 s ( 1961 ) Depiction Of War And Mr....

Catch 22’s (1961) depiction of war and Mr. Robot’s (2015) dystopian hacking reality are both satirical pieces which expose human weaknesses within their main characters and the societal ideologies around them to educate us and entertain us in different mediums. In Catch 22, Heller exposes the psychological state of war through Yossarian’s anxiety-stricken attempts to deconstruct the concept of war, in order to explain to the reader, the bureaucratic and logical madness of the military. Sam Esmail’s Mr. Robot episode â€Å"eps1.9_zer0- day.avi† continues on Elliot’s struggle with reality and sanity in the aftermath of erasing all debt in America and his criticisms of the conformity of society. By delving into the psyche of the military man with moments of hilarity, Catch 22 exposes trauma to educate and entertain us on the truth of war. Heller uses characters like Hungry Joe and Yossarian to explore a commonly repressed topic by soldiers being trauma. Trauma, other than being a driving factor of the story, is a recurring human problem which occurs due to certain experiences and the way it is portrayed shares similarities with Sigmund Freud’s work on the brain’s response to trauma. An example is Hungry Joe. Hungry Joe is a character who has been waiting for the call so to return home and yet the moment he has finished the required missions, Colonel Cathcart raises the number of missions. Soon falling into ruin, Hungry Joe experiences nightmares, â€Å"with celestial punctuality every