Laughter In Crime And Punishment, The Invisble Man And Catch 22

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This facade of meaning can come from a variety of sources, the effect, however, is the same--- individuals are trapped, physically and/or meta-physically, in a vicious cycle of absurdities, or paradoxes, created by the closed systems-- beliefs or societies-- that claim to provide a complete explanation of reality...
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In Joseph Heller's Catch 22 it is the war machine that dehumanizes its participants and creates a web of meaningless bureaucratic loopholes under the illusions of honor and patriotism. However illusions can be crafted internally too, as is seen in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment where the main character, Raskolnikov, falls prey to his own delusions of extreme logic, leaving him entangled in a war with himself...
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