Both symbolism and imagery cause an infectious fear of death as the victims become astoundingly overwhelmed by the death’s prowess to influence their actions. The acknowledgement of the inevitability of dying drives its victims’ will to survive. In Catch-22, Yossarian must find a loop hole in the bureaucracy to escape the military life he so despises. Despite the appeal to just abandon the military, Yossarian struggles to stand up to his superiors and choose his own fate. This is the result of Catch-22; Yossarian desire to be grounded, like a dog chasing its tail, seems impossible as his superiors continuously raise his sentence in the prison which holds his life captive off the coast of Pianosa. The setting of the Island in the midst of World
