Fight Club Essays

Essay about Fight Club
The film 'Fight Club' follows, to some degree of accuracy, the archetypal paradigm of the
apocalyptic guidelines discussed in English 3910. Specifically the movie mostly deals with the
genre of the personal apocalypse. Thus, following suit in relation to such works as 'Lancelot', 'The
Violent Bear it away' and 'Apocalypse Now'. 'Fight Club', essentiality contains the basic premise of
these works, that is the purging of one's identity through extreme measures and crisis; to ultimately
arrive at a personal revelation in the end.
Like 'Apocalypse Now', the audience is lead by narration to give a reflecting insight into the
apocalyptic journey of young professional named Jack. Jack works a regular nine to five office job
for an insurance...show more content...
Unable to sleep, he volunteers to travel and represent his company abroad. Unaffected by jet lag
he begins to enjoy arriving at a new destination every morning. Consequently he avoids
experiencing the torturous night in which he can't sleep. The pivotal moment in his life occurs on
his flight back to his home in LA. On the plane he meets Tyler Durden, who introduces himself as
a soap manufacturer. When they land in LA, they exchange business cards. Soon after his
encounter with Durden, he arrives at his condo only to step over a burnt piece of his couch, to be
greeted by a fireman, explaining to him that his apartment blew up. "You left the gas on and
something in your apartment sparked the explosion." In shock, Jack agonizes, "Everything I had
was in there, I had my couch my matching plates and neat glasses, my life was in that apartment!"
This explosion becomes the defining moment that begins his personal apocalypse. He is a man
purged of identity by fire. Like Lancelot and young Tarwater, his former self is destroyed by a
catastrophic event marked by flames.
His new path begins when he finds Durden's business card, with no place to go he calls him. The
two meet outside a bar and sit talking over a couple of beers. Jack explains his situation and asks
Durden if he could stay with him until he gets his life on track. Durden agrees, but in return asks
Jack a very odd
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Symbol Identification: Fight Club
Symbol Identification Fight Club Symbol #1: The Paper Street house Identification – The house on
Paper Street represents Narrator's mind. Explanation – 1.It's where Tyler lives. As we learn at the end
of the film, Tyler exists only in Narrator's mind. Just as the control of Narrator's mind is in
question, so is the control of the house: "I don't know if he owed it or was squatting. Neither
would have surprised me." 2.Tyler's home is dangerous and lonely, just like the mind of an
insomniac. "Everywhere were rusted nails to snag your elbow on. The previous occupant had been
a bit of a shut in." "At night, Tyler and I were alone for a half mile in every direction" 3.It's where
Project Mayhem (the fight against corporate greed)...show more content...
The house's name and location are more clues that it is a symbol for Narrator's mind. Per
Wikipedia, "a paper street is a road or street that appears on maps but does not exist in reality." By
using appellation (I think I get it now!), the film reinforces the notion that the Paper Street house
doesn't actually exist; it is merely a physical representation of the mind of the narrator. Symbol #2:
Robert Paulsen Identification – The name Robert Paulsen is another use of appellation in the film
and symbolizes the fact that Project Mayhem members are everywhere. Explanation – According to
Wikipedia, the name Robert means "bright with glory" and Paulsen means "small". By chanting
Bob's real name after a member's death, the club is basically saying "this one man may be small,
but he is bright with glory. We are many and we will go on." Symbol #3: Soap Identification– Soap
is used throughout Fight Club to represent cleansing, purification and rebirth, or as Tyler puts it,
going "back to zero." Explanation –Tyler presents himself as a soap salesman, and soon after
explains to Narrator that it can be used to make dynamite explode. When Tyler blows up the condo
using soap it represents Narrator's his rebirth, a life without corporate

Reflection Of Fight Club
Reflection One: Fight Club
Fight Club (1999) is a film directed by David Fincher based on the Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel of
the same name. Within popular culture Fight Club is regarded as a cult–classic and, in my opinion,
is both a fantastic novel and film. However, this reflection will primarily analyse Fight Club (1999)
the film adaption rather than Fight Club (1996) the novel. Fight Club is subjected to several
different polarising genres throughout its complicated storyline including social commentary and
romance. Within the text, Fight Club comments on absent Father's and suggests that men are being
raised by women and are therefore losing the part of themselves that they find through the fight club.
Arguably, Fight Club is hardly ever referenced as a romance novel, yet the film's plot revolves
around the Narrator's love interest Marla Singer and the confusing love triangle that exists between
them and the Narrator's second identity Tyler. Fight Club, however, ignores most conventions of a
romance text and instead becomes a blur of genres that critiques capitalistic society and promotes an
anti–materialistic lifestyle.
Fight Club's continuing relevance in contemporary popular culture is primarily attributed to the
relatable characteristics that the unnamed Narrator initially exhibits. Before becoming aware that the
Narrator and Tyler Durden are the same person, the majority of viewers relate more to the Narrator
and his admiration of Tyler as the man they aspire to

Fight Club Essay
Fight Club
David Flincher's movie, Fight Club, shows how consumerism has caused the emasculation of the
modern male and reveals a tale of liberation from a corporate controlled society. Society's most
common model of typical man is filthy, violent, unintelligent, immature, sexist, sex hungry, and
fundamentally a caveman. In essence Tyler Durden, is the symbolic model for a man. He is strong
enough to withstand from society's influences and his beliefs to remain in tact. Jack, the narrator,
on the other hand is the opposite. He is a weak, squeamish, skinny man who has not been able to
withstand society's influence; therefore, he is the Ikea fetish. Unlike Tyler, Jack is weak minded.
Both Jack and Tyler are polar opposite models of...show more content...
Society has taken the very essential feature of being a man and taken it away creating a more
feminine man. The term itself almost leaves us with an image of a castrated man. (explain more
what is consider a real man)
For instance, Bob's character which Jack meets at one of the support groups who is emasculated.
(Fragment) Bob was a champion bodybuilder, an autonomous and strong male, but had his
testicles detached and his hormone disproportion caused him to produce enormously large
breasts and his voice to become higher (do you mean deeper). Therefore, Bob goes to a testicular
cancer group so he could share his feelings, have strength and courage, to cry. He was previously a
strong and independent male, but now he is pathetic and dependent. Bob becomes more of a
woman than a man because of how society views what a real man considers. It is because of Bob's
big breast and his feminine side has made him become emasculated. So, Bob somehow decided to
join the Fight Club to make him not so emasculated.
Returning to the men at the meeting who had divorced from their wives, we realize that the room
is full of men that women do not want, which in itself already can emasculate a man. Also, if you
pay attention to the first few lines at the beginning of the movie, Jack speaks about how the whole
situation has to do with a girl, Marla Singer. Later on in the story, Marla is attracted to Tyler (Jack's
alter ego), while once Jack's own

Fight Club and Feminism Essay
The issue at the heart of the David Fincher film, Fight Club, is not that of man's rebellion against a
society of "men raised by women". This is a film that outwardly exhibits itself as promoting the
resurrection of the 'ultra–male', surreptitiously holding women accountable for the decay of
manhood. However, the underlying truth of the film is not of resisting the force of destruction that
is 'woman', or of resisting the corruption of manhood at her hand, but of penetrating the apathy
needed to survive in an environment ruled by commercial desire, not need. In reality, Fight Club is
a careful examination, through parody, of what it means to be a man; carefully examining the role
of women in a society busy rushing towards sexual...show more content...
These support groups (notably, the testicular cancer survivors' group, "Remaining Men
Together") give Jack the emotional stimulation he so desperately craves. It is the enveloping
comfort of cathartic release that is his salve; but, like all addictions, tolerance sets in, and the fix
must be elevated. Henry A. Giroux, in his essay "Private Satisfactions and Public Disorders: Fight
Club, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Masculine Violence", maintains the argument that Hollywood
films, being in a position of public pedagogy, exhibit a great deal of influence and must be
regarded carefully; he criticizes the film, saying Fight Club: ...offers up particular notions of
agency in which white working class and middle class men are allowed to see themselves as
oppressed and lacking because their masculinity has been compromised by and subordinated to
those social and economic spheres and needs that constitute the realm of the feminine. Giroux sees
the film "satirizing and condemning the 'weepy' process of femininization" that therapy groups
offer as compensation for wounds it inflicted upon itself, and he's right (insofar as there is no
therapy group offered for the disaffected). Jack is certainly an individual deserving of disdain for
his involvement in the founding of a 'club' where men meet to, ultimately, beat the shit out of each
other; and, as Giroux suggests, this type of man deserves no personal revolution, no reclamation of
lost

Fight Club Essay
Fight Club "The first rule about fight club is that you don't talk about fight club" (Palahniuk 87).
The story of Fight Club was very nail biting; you never knew what was going to happen next. There
were so many things that led up to a complete plot twist. It was amazing how closely directed and
written Chuck Palahniuk and David Fincher's versions were. However, the role in both that stood
out to me the most was the role of Marla. Marla was the biggest influence in discovering the
narrator (or Jack's) identity. Fight Club, in both Palahniuk and Fincher's versions is about a man
who is bored with his everyday life until one day when he meets this guy named Tyler. Tyler is
unlike anyone he has ever known before and this interests...show more content...
Marla popped up several times throughout the story, and each time that she did, she foreshadowed
Tyler being the narrator/Jack. However, her hints were subtle and it was nothing that you would
notice until you discovered the ending. One huge element of foreshadowing that she displayed was
how she confided in the narrator/Jack. There were many times when she would be telling him
something and it made the audience almost confused as to why she was telling him that and not
the man she was supposedly with. Fincher did a great job showing the attraction between them.
Marla was always hanging all over him and flirting with him, then coincidently enough as soon as
she was gone Tyler showed up and acted if it was nothing. Palahniuk on the other hand had a much
more difficult job. Putting her attraction for the narrator in to words took more than just her flirting
with him. In the book, she shared her stories and secrets with him. The part that stands out the most
was when she found a lump on her breast. If any person found a lump on their breast and wanted to
show somebody, most would chose the person that was closest to them. However, she and the
narrator always seemed to be arguing and bumping heads. Still, she chose to show him her lump.
She told him how when he first met her she had found the first lump, and now she was showing him
a second one. Palahniuk wrote, "Marla laughs at this until she sees that my

Social Issues In The Fight Club
Fight Club is one of the most critical and controversial movies of all time, but no one can deny its
fame in American popular culture. The audience remembers the thrill and the exciting pleasure while
watching it, so much that they want to start their own illegal real–life fight clubs. The impressions
about these "fight clubs" and the movie somewhat resemble each other; they are violent, bloody, and
promise a twisted end. However, these fight club "founders" may have always been
misunderstanding the real meanings of Fight Club all along when attempting to make one. The
interpretations of Fight Club introduced by several experts suggest its true message, in which the
social and cultural context impact the nature of gender roles and violence. Consequently, some
serious social and psychological problems emerged among men, and examining these issues will
reveal the truthful meanings and functions of the fight club. In like manner, a real–life fight club in
the modern world can adopt these ideas to...show more content...
The public idolized the aggressive heroes but simultaneously stigmatized the natural impulses of
aggression (Boon 267+). In other words, they must live under the influence of these "heroes," and
the way to be like them is to be aggressive; aggression, however, was blamed as a negative and evil
expression of the discrimination against other minority groups and women. Violent instinct of
heterosexual, white men was oppressed because violence was linked to homophobia and
anti–feminism, which are always negatively criticized, especially in that period of time, meanwhile
they still had responsibilities like protecting the family and the country, contribute to the
development of the community, which are all related to being aggressive (Boon

Research Paper On Fight Club
Fight Club "Everything is a copy, of a copy, of a copy" (Fight Club, 1999). As told by the narrator,
Fight Club is a movie about an office worker suffering from insomnia and a soap maker who form
a Fight Club. The narrator (Edward Norton) and Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) acquaint themselves
while they talk about modern day philosophy. After the narrators' apartment is blown to pieces by
a gas leak he is left with nothing. Leaving him to ask Tyler if he can stay at his place. Tyler's house
is a real piece of garbage with no running water, old–creaky floors, and a front door without a lock.
Every Saturday the two will go to a bar fight outside in the parking lot. Until they finally decide to
start a Fight Club. There were many rules of the club...show more content...
But as the movie progressed, he stopped caring because it didn't matter who he was or turned
into. He just wanted to be free and to feel alive. Fight Club gave his life meaning. He found
complete nirvana in fighting, whether he won or lost. But that's the thing, he didn't know he was
Tyler Durden. That blew my mind and is the best plot twist I've ever seen. I would understand
why some people wouldn't agree with this movie. It's too dark and cynical. That's what they
would say, but I would disagree. I believe this movie could've been darker. Others would say that
the club is a naive concept. These members fight to get away from their mundane lives. They fight
to feel accepted and to be part of something bigger. In conclusion, I recommend you to watch this
movie and not because of the bloody fight scenes or the cruel comedy. But to listen to the
conversations between the narrator and Tyler. Don't be materialistic and allow items to define you
as an individual. Be a long–living free spirit and don't fall to conformity. We all have our individual
beliefs and are entitled to our own opinions. Anti–consumerism, conformity, life and identity are all
the reasons what

Fight Club Movie Analysis Essay
Kory Weener Film Review 2 Fight Club is a psychoanalytical film that addresses the themes of
identification, freedom and violence. It acknowledges Freud's principle which stresses that human
behavior is the result of psychological conflicting forces and in order to analyze these forces, there
needs to be a way of tapping into peoples minds. The narrator tells his personal journey of
self–discovery through his alter ego and his schizophrenic experiences. The movie is told through a
sequence of events is told through a flashback that starts with insomnia. Jack starts attending support
groups for testicular cancer survivors that let him release his emotions and can finally is able to sleep
at night. Although he...show more content...
It shows our generation as lacking spirit and recognized by consumerism. The economic element
plays a huge role in this film. The director is trying to prove that society cannot survive without
material possessions. We are built on consumerism. The more possessions a person owns, the greater
the economy is. The movie shows that consumers are attached to material possessions and that
materialism and consumerism go hand in hand. Society has adopted the values that possessions are
the highest value in life and that the only way to be successful is to have a large amount of nice
material possessions. These items control the people that society has become and people spend their
whole lives trying to find their identity through material items. The political elements of the movie
are shown through the politics of violence. The movie focuses on masculinity, violence and gender.
It resembles the pathology of individual and institutional violence that fills America, ranging from
hate crimes to criminal subcultures. Violence functions mostly through the politics of denial,
insulation, disinterest and inability to criticize with self–consiousness. This is the violence that
represents society today.
The artistic elements of the movie are shown by the repeating theme of Jack's journey towards
enlightenment. He attends support groups and learns how to meditate to become a happier person.
There is a principle aspect of Buddhism shown throughout the movie. The

Fight Club : A Marxist Lens
Written in 1996, Fight Club expresses the issues of its time with Palahniuk using a Marxist lens
to express the evils of capitalist society in relation to loss of identity in a society built on
achieving relative gains with those at the top benefiting at the expense of those at the bottom.
The 1990s was a decade of excess , where people became fixated on consumerism, which,
characterised the period as one of social disconnection, recklessness and greed , destroying moral
values and widening the gap between classes, as financially the "top 1% were worth as much as
the combined worth of the bottom 90%" . Through homodiegetic narration, Palahniuk voices his
frustrations of the struggle of an individual against repression from a capitalist society through the
persistence of consumerism. The struggle of an individual in a class alienated society is
emphasised by presenting two disparate classes: the bourgeois and the proletariat. The bourgeois
are describes by the narrator as 'titans and their gigantic wives' who 'drink barrels of champagne and
bellow at each other wearing diamonds bigger than I feel'. The exaggeration used adds to the cynical
tone to mock the elements of the bourgeois, but also suggests the hollowness of their wealth and
how they possess greater than the narrator can grasp. The narrator in comparsion feels like a
'cockroach' shown in the description; they 'just want to see you run around their money...they know
they can't threaten you with the tip, to them

Fight Club Essay
All the Young Dudes , Altered contemporary spiritual and physical spatial experiences in social
movements under the influence of network 2.0 "...We have no Great War. No Great Depression.
Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on
television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we
won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."–Tyler Durdena, a
character from the 1999 David Fincher film Fight Club The soliloquy is quoted from the narrator in
the film Fight Club which reveals a deep anxiety under the tide of capitalism. The movie Fight Club
is not only a story of generational psychological and spiritual...show more content...
When Web 2.0 forever changes humankind's behavior and thoughts, those young protesters who
were in 1968 Paris are already old enough to sitting in the office room, commanding police to arrest
another new generation of protesters who yelling on the street. Compare with the original World
Wide Web, the evolved Web 2.0 is named by its ability for users to interact with each others. Tim
Berners–Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, who described Web 2.0 as: "a place where we
could all meet and read and write." He said, "When you write a blog, you don't write complicated
hypertext, you just write text " . Web 2.0 starts to make networked world "virtualized" through its
handy and approachable feature. The virtualization of everything on the network makes people
rely on the smart device to organize their everyday life, also brings confusion and anxiety. In the
film "Her", it elaborates a virtual relationship between a man and an artificial intelligence female
figure. In Adbusters, the journal of the mental environment, Darren Fleet questioned how far
technologies can reach: "What does it mean to be a human being when digital technologies can do
everything that we can do, only better, even love?" Indeed, network based virtual world makes
people especially this generation addicted on it. It just like the slogan on the poster: "All these open
windows, but no fresh air." It was a perfect description of this generation who rose

Fight Club Analysis
Fight Club "There is enough on earth for everybody's need, but not for everyone's greed." Mahatma
Gandhi This quote fits perfectly on me. Even though I have enough clothes to last an entire
lifetime, yet I keep finding myself at the mall, buying things I simple do not need at all. And I am
not the only one, millions of people is doing the same thing. It is because we need certain things: we
desire different certain things. Now what is that problem called? Consumerism. Modern society is
based on different things. But one of those things, consumerism, has been growing majorly over the
past couple of decades, mainly in America. Americans consume exponentially more than any other
country in the world and are the leaders in waste...show more content...
Fight club is a "cult" how was invented by the narrator and Tyler; "I want you to do me a favour; I
want you to hit me as hard as you can "(book p.52). At first the narrator is withdrawn but Tyler
explains about self–destruction. After the first few punch, they are aching for more, and want to
see how long they can go. This is the start of fight club. They get a basement where they can fight,
and the narrator and Tyler make the seven rules of fight club. The most important rule is that "...you
don't talk about fight club". For the narrator the fight meant he could go back to his life, do the
things that matter. Fight club is way for men to get of their daily lives, out of the consuming
lifestyle. In fight club they can beat at each other without norms and normal society rules. These
men were raised to hide their aggression. They are the so call generation X – they were raised by
women, abandon of father figures. With fight club in the narrators' life now, everything seems to
for filed. The fight club is the most important thing in his life; it's all he can think about. Fight club
takes over his concerns about his appearance, his job, and the need to make himself more
masculine. With Marla back in the picture, after her attempt suicide, Tyler pays less attention to the
narrator and the narrator is also faced with some of his own problems again. Tylers main

Analysis of вЂњFight ClubвЂќ Essay
Analysis of "Fight Club"
For years David Fincher has directed some of the most stylish and creative thrillers in American
movies. His works include: Aliens 3, Seven, The Game and Fight Club. Each of these films has been
not only pleasing and fun to watch but each has commented on society, making the viewers think
outside the normal and analyze their world. Fight Club is no exception, it is a multi–layered film
with many subplots and themes, but primarily it is a surrealistic description of the status of the
American male at the end of the 20th century. David Flincher's movie, Fight Club, shows how
consumerism has caused the emasculation of the modern male and tells a tale of liberation from a
corporate controlled society.
In the...show more content...
The corporate ownership of the male extends to how much his life is worth. Ed Norton works in a
claims department for a large car manufacture. His job is to decide what a manufacture does in
case of a design flaw. Take for example, if a carburetor runs a risk of exploding after 100,000
miles; ED Norton's job is to investigate the probability of this happening. Then take the number of
vehicles on the road and multiply them it by the probable rate of failure and multiply the product
again with average price of an out of court settlement. If the end result is less than the cost of a
recall, there is no recall.
Brad Pitt makes a statement that illustrates the society the modern male is forced to live in, "We are
a society of men raised by women." The film shows the emasculation of the 20th century male, not
only by our consumer–oriented society but also by feminine standards of civilization. The best
example of this would be the support groups Ed Norton visits. In these support groups, men are told
to gather power, strength and courage from each other not from themselves. At the end of the
sessions men are told to hold each other and cry, things that are very non–stereotypical of men. The
20th century society does not want men to function independently and be able to be emotionally
strong on their own, it does not want men to be men. Society wants to take the very ideals of being a
man, independence, strength and courage and only allow for men to experience them

Fight Club Identity Analysis
Fight Club: An Exploration of Identity The society we exist in is replete with people who have an
inner desire to be perceived differently from how the world perceives them. David Fincher's Fight
Club portrays the struggle of identity and perception through the narrator's character, who ironically
is never assigned a name throughout the film. The narrator's identity undergoes a shift from an initial
complete disconnection from the real world to an adoption of a second identity or alter–ego ("Tyler
Durden") that allows the narrator to live life the way he wishes he could live it. Both identities are
part of the narrator himself: one that adheres to society's prerequisites and one that blatantly disobeys
and rebels against society's prerequisites. At their cores, the narrator's two identities are distinctly
opposites; however, there are moments in Fight Club during which the narrator's self–described
"weaker" initial identity adapts characteristics that are dominated by his Tyler Durden identity. The
narrator's "fight" between his two adapted, competitive identities signify the prevalence of a
connection between the narrator and society, no matter how determined he is to deny it. In the
beginning of Fight Club, the narrator voices his discontent with his life and with the modern
materialistic world, which he has "become slave to" like many others in society. He equates his
identity to his possessions and seeks out what he believes to "define him as a person," such as a

Fight Club Essay
Fight Club In the book Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, the narrator is an employee for a
travelling car company, who suffers from insomnia. When he asks his doctor for medication the
doctor refuses and advises him to visit a support group to witness what suffering really is. The first
group the narrator attends is for testicular cancer victims. He finds an emotional release that relieves
his insomnia and becomes addicted to support groups. After a flight home from a business trip, the
narrator realizes that his apartment was destroyed by a homemade explosion. He calls Tyler Durden,
a man who he met on the flight. Tyler and the narrator meet at a bar, and start to fight. They continue
to fight, and they start to attract crowds of...show more content...
This quote was said right before the narrator and Tyler engaged into a fight. This quote was the
root of the formation of fight club. This quote also states that the narrator is not independent and
lost a form of his power by listening to what Tyler had told him. The narrator had the option of
being independent by not hitting Tyler and engaging into a fight, but the power Tyler had over
him was overbearing for him to stop. Once the narrator asks Tyler to stay at his home, this is a
defining moment of where Tyler has more control of the narrator by letting him into his home.
This moment also shows how the narrator is losing power by moving into the house of the man
that has control over him. The Formation of Project Mayhem is an aspect of how the narrator is
losing control by a political organization created by Tyler. Project Mayhem is a secret organization
that was formed by the Fight Club, and led by Tyler Durden. Project Mayhem was created to fight
against rich people who don't care about the white collar working class and it is a war on
civilization, consumerism and the world they live in. Project Mayhem was formed by Tyler and the
narrator was not told about which had angered him. Tyler had control over the narrator's power
because Tyler is gaining control over the narrator by creating groups without the narrator realizing.
Another way of which Tyler has power over everyone including the narrator is because he also made
the rules and announces

Fight Club Identity Essay
In David Fincher's 1999 film Fight Club, the Narrator portrays his search for identity. At the
beginning, he asks, "if I could wake up in a different place, different time, could I wake up as a
different person?" (Fight Club). Throughout the film, it shows how the Narrator is conformed,
working a 9 to 5 corporate job in a cubicle surrounded by people who only wear suits and ties, the
typical lifestyle expected by society. However, he begins to break out of his every day routine when
he meets Tyler Durden, whom is free from caring about what others think, free from living how
society wants him to, and free from conformity. Fight Club's perpetual focus on identity and
conformity throughout this film indicates that the Narrator fabricates a split image of himself,
creating the person whom he wishes to be like to escape from his normative. In the film,...show more
content...
As stated before, Tyler Durden is an individual who does not live by society's rules, instead, he
creates his own. When the narrator and Tyler's relationship progresses, they come up with an
invention known as "Fight Club." In Fight Club, men can be nothing but themselves, and it is a
place for them to release their anger and frustrations by beating each other until there is blood. As
told by the narrator, "after fighting, everything in your life got the volume turned down" (Fight
Club). In effect, he stops caring about his appearance at work – showing up with blackened eyes,
blood stained clothes, and missing teeth. He also stops caring about his apartment and his
furnishings, which had gotten blown up by a mysterious fire. At this point, Fight Club becomes the
narrator's new home, and slowly starts turning into his new basis of life. The Narrator begins to let
thrill of the club and the fighting take over him, and being that he needs some excitement in his life,
he lets the change

Fight Club
Melissa Gonzales Prof. O'Connell English 215 09, December 2013 Fight Club Fight Club by
Chuck Palahniuk uses violence for most of recorded history, violence has played a major role in
our lives; for example, through country conflicts to world wars, violence seems to be the tool to
our defense. Even in our daily lives, when encountered a conflict, we humans want to make it
disappear as quick as possible. We do this by using violence unconsciously, whether it is verbally
or physically. To the same effect, in his novel Fight Club, Palahniuk reveals violence to be an
inescapable cycle. He does this effectively by using violence in the lives of the characters; acting as
a form of escape, a...show more content...
Tyler uses violence as a tool for control frequently, specifically in Project Mayhem. In Project
Mayhem, the members, referred to as spacemonkeys, feel violence is necessary in achieving their
goals of anarchy. The actions begin with simple destructive attacks on specific individuals or things.
For example, whenever an authority stands between the spacemonkeys and their missions, they
simply castrate the opposition. In another example, spacemonkeys threaten to murder an individual
at gunpoint if they do not pursue their true aspirations in life. However, small petty acts of violence
escalade into much more violent, terrorist–like attacks. In fact, Tyler wants to literally destroy every
by–product of the consumer culture; he states, "We wanted to blast the world free of history. You'll
hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams
next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty–five degree angle" (116). These visions
become realities; the novel culminates in Project Mayhem attempting, although unsuccessfully, to
explode world's tallest building. Both the Narrator and Tyler use violence as a form of escape.
Beginning with the Narrator casually stating, "I just don't want to die without a few scars" (49), and
fight club evolves

Fight Club Analysis Essay examples
William Carlos Williams ends In the American Grain's final chapter on Abraham Lincoln with the
end of a violent, contradictory nature and the establishment of an identity "it was the end of THAT
period" (Williams 234) . America has matured past adolescence but contemporary society finds itself
in the midst of a mid–life crisis. Young adult males live without purpose or meaning and struggle
against a conditioned, preexisting identity defined by history. As Tyler Durden restrains the narrator
in Fight Club and reflects on the history of violence in the foundations of contemporary America, he
argues the necessity of violence to create identity, "everything up to now is a story, and everything
after now is a story" (Palahniuk p.75). The...show more content...
Contemporary Americans would like to assume that Walter, the "warm little center that world
crowded around" is constrained by painless thoughts of meatless, communal dinners or is truly
concerned about the wealth fare of all human beings and the Earth's depleting ozone (Palahniuk 55).
The narrator argues that Walter longs for deconstruction, for violence and rebellion. Walter dreams
of a masculine identity, characterized by self–destruction. Tyler Durden's vision of a
hyper–masculine, anarchic world is tempting to atypical, middle–age men because the vision
promises a violent redefinition of what roles men should officially play. Young men of the late
twentieth century found themselves lost in a void where many were, "too young to have fought in
any wars" (Palahniuk 55). Young professionals are constantly chasing after the legends of a
generation defined by war (World War II, Vietnam and Desert Storm). Modern US society in the late
twentieth century has condemned violence, war and primal definitions of masculinity. Chuck
Palahniuk places the narrator of Fight Club on a, "Sunday afternoon at Remaining Men Together in
the basement of Trinity Episcopal" (Palahniuk 18). The castrated men gathered together are symbols
of societal perfection and masculinity. Therapeutic Fight Clubs start as places for men to work on
their gender issues. These issues and support groups ultimately lead to organizations that thrive on
creating

Textual Analysis Essay on Fight Club
Gina Ferrari Eric Netterlund Fall 2011 Textual Analysis Essay The classic 1996 film Fight Club is
a social commentary about our generation, which is in many ways devoid of spirit and marked by
consumerism. It is the story of a man's spiritual journey towards enlightenment in modern society
and his attempt to find his place in the world. It stresses a post–modern consumer society, reveals the
loss of masculine identity amongst gray–collar workers, and examines the social stratification
marked by our developing society. It follows the life of the narrator, who is referred to as Jack,
(Edward Norton) as he struggles with insomnia and feelings of inadequacy in his desperate search to
find meaning in his own life. The film, although...show more content...
Each man shares a story of how their wives left them, or they lost their job, or how in some way
they all feel inadequate. After hearing such unfortunate stories of innocent men who's lives have
been consumed by this disease, he opens up to the group, tears and all. This release of emotions
is the only thing that helps him sleep at night. The scenes at the support group reiterate the films
message of weakness. The Narrator proceeds to join several other support groups, each meeting a
different day of the week, allowing him to ease his mind each night. He continues to go to the
support groups, but soon notices that he isn't the only person faking a disease. A seductive woman
named Marla Singer attends the same support group meetings that he does, and he finds that when
she is there he is unable to cry, and hence unable to sleep. Marla Singer, the symbol of society, is
the biggest threat to The Narrator. She leaves him feeling trapped in a state of insomnia as he
sleep–walks through life. Nonetheless, the Narrator begins to fall back into his old habits and his
life is once again a disappointment. When traveling on a plane for work, he meets a soap salesman,
Tyler Durden. The soap he makes is constructed by stolen fat from human liposuction clinics, which
shows a glimpse of the corruption in Tyler Durden's personality. The zeal, power, and confidence
immediately attract the Narrator to Tyler. He feels drawn to Tyler and is constantly trying to grasp

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What did the film Distort?
A film adaptation of a book can be like hearsay. The author writes a novel to send a certain
message. Someone else reads it interprets it in a different way and talks to a film producer. The film
producers then take its, leaves out major events, change the ending and make a film with a
completely different message than the author. The author then screams bloody murder then takes his
cut from the box office. Joesph Boggs, the author of Problems with Adaptation, says "We expect
the film to duplicate exactly the experience we had seeing the play or in reading the novel. That is,
of course, completely impossible" (Boggs 672). No one told this theory to David Fincher, the
director of...show more content...
The film still does a good job in emphasizing the damage the narrator does to Marla.
Another minor change was how the narrator met Tyler. In the movie, it says they met on the airplane
while he was traveling on the business trip. In the book they met at a nude beach. He went to a nude
beach to take a rest from the world "and somehow, by accident, Tyler and I met."
Palahniuk is trying to use the nude beach and the nude Tyler as symbolism for birth. When a baby is
born, they are naked with no clothing. Tyler was born with no clothing either. Fincher decided not to
in that direction and instead the two have a very humorous conversation about emergency exits.
Fincher probably decided that the humor aspect of the confrontation would have more value than the
symbolism that Palahniuk had.
A more significant change is the movie is less violent than the book. Project Mayhem was changed
to be less evil. In the book, the narrator says, "Tyler didn't care if anyone got hurt or not. The goal
was to teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history." In the movie Tyler
made sure that the buildings were empty and no one would get hurt. Tyler says in the movie, "We're
not killing anyone, man, we're setting them free." The book has the narrators boss at the car
company killed Patrick Madden who is investigating the group killed. The movie just has the narrator

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