As a member of my generation, I’ve heard the phrase “The first rule of fight club is, don’t talk about fight club”. That quote is about the only thing I knew about the movie “Fight Club”, other than the fact that it starred Brad Pitt. Naturally, when starting the film, I was expecting two hours of […]
Various works in literature have been written for the sake of giving the readers a “great read” and others teaching life’s lessons. One can agree that when a book can be great, it can lack substance and brains. And on the other hand; a book can be dull and bland but be composed of stories, facts […]
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Get startedMusician and blogger Cameron Harwick once wrote that “Man is an undoubtedly social being. Nearly everything he does is in regard to another human being”. The insight touches on the theme of “group instinct”, connecting it to Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club. At the heart of Fight Club is the question: Who am I? Fight […]
In Chuck Palahniuk’s book, Fight Club, two social classes, the working class and the multi-billion corporations, were displayed throughout the book that caused mayhem between the two within society. The two social classes cannot work together due fact of their economic status, but even if one social class was being sabotaged, threatened, or mistreated the two […]
Through the main character’s power struggle and dissociative identity disorder with Tyler Durden we see the reoccurring theme of existentialism as the narrator battles his subconscious and rebels against society. The author impressively uses syntax and a handful of flashbacks to communicate the story’s message. An existentialist is someone who believes that they can determine […]
Abstract Dissociative Identity Disorder, previously known as multiple personality disorder, is a unique disorder where the individual suffers from a split personality. Symptoms can include insomnia, anxiety, mood swings and a dissociated identity or split personalities (Web MD 2014). The movie Fight Club is an exclusive movie that includes a character living a dull life, […]
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. -Henry David Thoreau, Walden David Fincher’s Fight Club is a critique […]
A Quick Summary The wildly popular 1999 film, Fight Club, is one who’s plot is the result of and driven by the mental illness of the unnamed protagonist/narrator. The film begins with the protagonist leading a decidedly average life, one he subconsciously finds unfulfilling and restrictive. His subliminal anguish leaves him with a debilitating case […]
In the novel Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk explores the very real crisis of men: what makes a man? Through the very real representation of the narrator’s opposite side, Tyler Durden, we see what men feel pressured to be; the alpha male. Men can’t feel things, never mind show them. Men are expected to behave, dress and […]
People deal with personas every day. They are the masks strapped so tightly on the faces of colleagues and the self that offer a different surface-level interpretation of character. Whether these personas are put on to impress or to hide the truth, people are prone to pursue an idyllic model of excellence when they put on […]
