Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club examines and exposes the violent potential of frustrated men who must survive in a consumer culture that does not differentiate between men and women. Like women, men in Fight Club are expected to express themselves through the material goods they labor to buy. While both the book and the film versions…

One of the more obvious cultural myths threaded through the movie “Fight Club” concerns the notions surrounding the definition of what is masculine. A part of American cultural mythology that is palpable in “Fight Club” is the myth of masculinity, with its attendant misconceptions and twists. The movie portrays the “demasculinization” of the American male…

Just last night I saw the movie, The Joy Luck Club (JLC), which played on television for the first time in Los Angeles. I had been meaning to see this movie but never got around to it until now. Since many female friends recommended this 1993 movie to me, including my own sister, I was…

“You are not defined by your job or the amount of money in your bank account. You are not your car or the contents of your wallet. You are not defined by the clothes you wear.” – John Zavodny, “I Am Jack’s Wasted Life: Fight Club and Personal Identity” (51). This quote highlights how purchasing…

A young urban professional who works for a major car manufacturer can’t sleep. Although he doesn’t have any of the associated afflictions, he stumbles across support groups as a means to let out whatever emotions he is feeling, which in turn is allowing him to sleep. But the use of these support groups is ruined…

All societies have a basic structure, and in order to function well with others, a person must conform to the laws and regulations of said society. In the novels Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, a variety of themes are discussed, with the major theme being…

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club is a revolutionary, cynical novel that portrays the need for identity in life and Palahniuk explains, through the narrator’s personality disorder, that the desire for meaning is the sole internal incentive of civilization. The protagonist is powerless and his consequent struggles include emotional troubles, homophobia as well as his inclination towards…

The film, Fight Club exemplifies various ethical dilemmas relating to cultural standards, organizational structure, and ethics systems. These ethical dilemmas are presented through both personas of the main character, Tyler Durden. The situations that he faces can be related to real-life ethical issues that are relevant today. Fight Club illustrates many ethical notions that tie…

On one level, this opus of David Fincher – based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk and spotlighting Brad Pitt as “Tyler Burden”, Edward Norton as the nerdy narrator, and Helena Bonham-Carter as the woman who reels in both men – is a gratuitous appeal to vicariously-experienced violence. Viewed once or twice more, the paradox…

Even considering the complicated format of the book, David Fincher managed to almost perfectly illustrate the novel Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, in his movie of the same name. Although tempting to compare a book and its film counterpart on even grounds, as a substitute of one another, the tools used to create each one…