Category: Academic Writing


  • No Heroes Here: How Heller Uses Absurdity to Expose War’s Lie

    In this paper for my 20th Century Literature course, I argue that Joseph Heller uses absurdity not just as a literary style, but as a tool to expose the moral and logical collapse behind modern warfare. By analyzing the novel’s fractured structure, circular reasoning, and broken language, I show how Catch-22 forces readers to experience the very…