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Compare the ways in which figures of authority are portrayed in Joseph Heller's Catch 22 and Joan Littlewood's Oh! What a Lovely War.


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Compare the ways in which figures of authority are portrayed in Joseph Heller's Catch 22 and Joan Littlewood's Oh! What a Lovely War.

... Compare the ways in which figures of authority are portrayed in Joseph Heller's Catch 22 and Joan Littlewood's Oh! What a Lovely War. Both Catch 22 and Oh! What a Lovely War are satirical comedies looking at the absurdity and tragedy of war. Being satires, they serve to expose the flaws in wartime situations and in doing so often develop criticisms of authoritative figures. Both texts approach the portrayal of authority in slightly different ways; being a play, Oh! What a Lovely War has a lot more scope for portraying its characters visually and aurally, whereas Catch 22 must work within its boundaries as a novel. Both texts employ humour to portray characters of authority; whereas Littlewood's play is more focused on dark humour, Heller uses his own brand of absurd irony throughout the novel - this humour is central to most techniques used in both pieces of literature.

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