When approaching complex concepts such as cleansing society of some key aspects, writers will oftentimes use literature as a way to discuss these ideas. An example of this is seen in the novel Fight Club written by Chuck Palahniuk. In the story, Palahniuk develops a set of recurring symbols, soap and urine, that are later uncovered to represent the same thing as the story progresses. These two symbols both embody the idea that Tyler and Project Mayhem’s goal is to cleanse the world of the upper class and all the rules that go with it, because of how the lower class always has to sacrifice things for the benefit of the wealthy. Fight Club highlights this theme of human oppression and purging society of the upper class, not simply through Tyler
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Tyler believes that the lower class is always doing the dirty work in society so that the upper class can do what they please and live their materialistic lives. Therefore, because of this Tyler wants to change creating a dynamic that allows the lower-class members to be noticed and to hold some power. To do this he takes things from the rich and sells it back to them without them ever finding out, as a means to benefit him and his fellow lower class members. What he does is use Marla’s mother’s fat since if “Marla’s mom doesn’t need the collagen herself, she sends the packets to Marla” (91) for Marla to eventually use on herself. However, once Marla begins storing her “trust fund” of fat in the freezer at the Paper Street house, Tyler steals it and makes his soap out of it since “the best kind of collagen…is your own fat, sucked out of [you]” (91). Essentially, Tyler is stealing unneeded excess fat from a lady that is obviously overweight due to opulence and then he is proceeding to turn it into a product that is being sold in Nordstrom, an upper-class store, and being bought back by wealthy people. As a result of this, Tyler is acting as a type of Robin Hood for the lower-class people in order to invert the ideals of the poor sacrificing for the benefit of the
Tyler believes that the lower class is always doing the dirty work in society so that the upper class can do what they please and live their materialistic lives. Therefore, because of this Tyler wants to change creating a dynamic that allows the lower-class members to be noticed and to hold some power. To do this he takes things from the rich and sells it back to them without them ever finding out, as a means to benefit him and his fellow lower class members. What he does is use Marla’s mother’s fat since if “Marla’s mom doesn’t need the collagen herself, she sends the packets to Marla” (91) for Marla to eventually use on herself. However, once Marla begins storing her “trust fund” of fat in the freezer at the Paper Street house, Tyler steals it and makes his soap out of it since “the best kind of collagen…is your own fat, sucked out of [you]” (91). Essentially, Tyler is stealing unneeded excess fat from a lady that is obviously overweight due to opulence and then he is proceeding to turn it into a product that is being sold in Nordstrom, an upper-class store, and being bought back by wealthy people. As a result of this, Tyler is acting as a type of Robin Hood for the lower-class people in order to invert the ideals of the poor sacrificing for the benefit of the