Living Life Without Fear In The Film Fight Club

The author uses Imagery and dialogue to show the theme that “People are not meant to be perfect, they are meant to be themself.”

He ultimately wants to be the physically bigger person and beat up this enemy. Tyler does

Fight Club is a complex movie in that the two main characters are just two sides of the same person. Edward Norton’s character is the prototypical conformist consumer working a morally questionable office job to feed his obsession with material possessions. He works as a recall coordinator for a “major car company” and applies a formula based on profitability, rather than safety, to determine the necessity of a recall. Though never explicitly stated, he seems to be in his late twenties or early thirties and throughout the movie has a constantly haggard appearance because of his insomnia and fighting. Brad Pitt’s character is a carefree nonconformist and the manifestation of Edward Norton’s

  Throughout the text Tyler shows how he has been thinking of death and how he might commit suicide. This can show some historical text because there have been many cases where teens have wanted to or, have committed suicide throughout our generation. In the text Tyler says “I’d back

This quote shows that people can be different then they can be, people can ultimately change for the worst.

This says to me that in order for a person to change they have to first become aware of themselves and how they perceive and understand themselves in relation to the world.

Tyler is also the son of Elizabeth (Arthur’s second wife) and had to move to Israel with her because it was written as one of her custody in their divorce papers. He was 8 when he heard that his father passed away and fled away from the country due to flu spreading vast fully throughout the world. 20yrs passes by and now he is known as the Prophet, the most feared person throughout the city, with a society of people who worship him because he is chosen by god. In chapter 53, we go back into the past 15mins before the play was about to start, Arthurs calls Tyler who’s angry at him because he attend his birthday but, they conversed over how great the comic book Station Eleven, not knowing that this would be their last discussion. This proves my thesis because it shows how Arthur didn’t really give/have enough time being with his son. Since he grew up without a father teaching him what’s right from wrong, Tyler became the fearful Prophet that ended up getting shot in the head by one of his believers. So in other words Arthur’s actions affected future events to become as what they are by making bad life choices that harmed Tyler’s path of life. If Arthur ending up as a loyal husband & father none of this would have

Tyler is a nihilist because he does not believe in the value of friendship or loyalty. Tyler's main drive is to destroy the narrator's life. Tyler has not emotional connection to people, and he also has no regrets. He, eventually, forces this philosophy onto the narrator and thereby transforms him into Tyler Durden. In the first chapters of the novel, it is difficult to distinguish the narrator and Tyler because of the effect that Tyler had on the narrator's personality. Tyler emphasizes this point when he says, “I used to be a nice person” (Palahniuk 98). Eventually, Tyler destroys the narrator's humanity and pulls him from the senses that control societal actions.

	Living is about making choices. The choices people make shape their lives for better or worse. Even the decision not to choose has its effects, often not wanted. But the individual who chooses to make positive choices and to act accordingly is more likely to see his or her life reflect his or her beliefs and desires. Usually the individual who chooses to take action is also willing to face the risks and obstacles that such choices involve.

As an audience, throughout the film it is evident that there is a significant contrast between the narrator and Tyler as they view many things differently. Just like the Fight Club and the IKEA furniture, the narrator becomes obsessed with Tyler and the life he leads. When Tyler is first introduced as a passenger on the airplane, the narrator is immediately drawn to him in a way that is different than any other person he has met. He feels a connection with him that he has not felt before, which is why he calls him when his apartment burns and he loses all of his important IKEA furniture. Tyler tells him it’s “just stuff” (Fight Club) and “the things you own end up owning you” (Fight Club), which completely contradicts everything the narrator had previously believed about his home and the furniture. Through Tyler, the narrator starts to lose his need for material objects when Tyler tells him “Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... let’s evolve, let the chips fall where they may” (Fight Club), instead he focuses on the fighting and his friendship with Tyler since he has finally found something that fills the void in his life and gives it meaning. Though it may seem abstract that Tyler would fit into this argument, it all comes together at the end of the film when the audience finds

I believe Jack created Tyler in order to find his masculinity. When Jack loses everything he has, he does not know how to cope with such an excessive amount of stress. At this point, he turns to Tyler. Together, the two of them create Fight Club, a new way for men to relieve their stress and find their strength. Jack confesses to Tyler that he never really knew his father because he abandoned him when he was about six years old. Since he was raised by his mother, this becomes the movie’s best indication of why he suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder. Jack never had a male role

It explains to the reader that no matter how many times a man fails or succeeds in his life, it comes down to whether or not they give it there all or not.

The film does take a rather unexpected turn with the destruction of the narrator’s beloved condo. An explosion destroys everything and his pursuit for the perfect condo is forced to end prematurely. With literally no friends or family the narrator is forced to turn to the intriguing ‘single-serving friend’ he met on the plane, Tyler Durden; a confident, eccentric, care-free and charismatic soap salesman. As the narrator continuously rants about the terrible misfortune he has just endured, Tyler shows not even the smallest interest. He impertinently proclaims, “Could be worse. A woman could cut your penis while you’re asleep and toss it out of a moving car”

His second epiphany occurs when he shoots Tyler, and thus himself. On the first level, the narrator acknowledges his death instincts by confronting his fear of pain and death. He accepts Tyler’s ideas of experiencing death so as to be fully conscious of his physical existence. When he shoots Tyler, he does so with the awareness that he is shooting himself. This is the final step he needs to take in order to be fully aware of what he is. On the second level, by rejecting Tyler’s nihilistic ideas of destroying institutions and value systems, he chooses what values to stand for and thus creates his own purpose for himself. “In choosing his ethics, Man makes himself.” He also translates the belief in these values into the actual action of shooting Tyler, thus defining his existence through actual action. On the third level, by shooting Tyler, he assumes responsibility for all of Man, not just himself. He assumes responsibility for Man because he invents what Man should be: one who does not act in an uncaring and destructive manner towards others. On the fourth level, shooting Tyler allows the narrator to be defined in a way he wishes to be defined in the eyes of the “other”. Shooting Tyler is crucial towards removing the existence of Project Mayhem. He does not want Marla to find out about Project Mayhem because he will then lose his connections with her. It is important to the narrator to have a

Fight Club is a unique film that has many different interpretations consisting of consumerist culture, social norms, and gender roles. However, this film goes deeper and expresses a Marxist ideology throughout; challenging the ruling upper-class and a materialist society. The unnamed narrator, played by Ed Norton, represents the materialist society; whereas Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt, represents the person challenging the controlling upper-class. Karl Marx believed that the capitalist system took advantage of workers, arguing that the interests of the upper-class class conflicted with that of the common worker. Marx and Durden share the same views about the upper-class oppressing the materialist, common worker. By interpreting Fight Club through a Marist lens, the viewer is able to realize the negative effects a capitalist society has on the common worker by seeing the unnamed narrator’s unfulfilled and material driven life in contrast to the fulfilling life of Durden who challenges the upper-class. The unnamed narrator initially fuels the upper-class dominated society through his materialistic and consumeristic tendencies; however, through the formation of his alter ego—Durden—the unnamed narrator realizes the detriment he is causing to himself and society. He then follows the guide of Durden’s and Marx’s views and rectifies his lifestyle by no longer being reliant on materials. Also by forming fight club, which provides an outlet, for himself and the common worker,