Representations of masculinity in Fight Club and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner dissertation proposal.
The main focus of my dissertation will be on representations of masculinity in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. The aim of the project is to be able to compare and contrast the representations of masculinity in both texts and to be able to determine whether they are inaccurate or whether they serve as a precise social commentary with universal applicability or whether they are only relevant to their time periods and regions.
Fight Club and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner will supplement my argument as they offer a variety of themes between them, such as religion, fanaticism, violence, single parenthood and isolation. My dissertation will deliberate changes in male attitudes and behaviour in the western world through a number of factors such as systemic emasculation, single parenthood and the rise of movements such as third wave feminism. As a result of these influences, hyper masculinity and fanaticism as reactionary movements will be explored.
The critical context for the time being is a focus on the applicability that the two texts have to the real world, Fight Club is …show more content…
Fielding says “But the double also can become a projection of our conscience (Freud’s ‘superego’) which we suppose to be censoring or criticising us.” Fielding’s understanding is rather accurate and is applicable to the real world, people often feel they are censoring themselves from their real selves for the sake of conforming to societal norms. Emphasis will also be placed on rebellion and counter cultures more as a fad than genuine dissent to the dominant
The main focus of my dissertation will be on representations of masculinity in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. The aim of the project is to be able to compare and contrast the representations of masculinity in both texts and to be able to determine whether they are inaccurate or whether they serve as a precise social commentary with universal applicability or whether they are only relevant to their time periods and regions.
Fight Club and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner will supplement my argument as they offer a variety of themes between them, such as religion, fanaticism, violence, single parenthood and isolation. My dissertation will deliberate changes in male attitudes and behaviour in the western world through a number of factors such as systemic emasculation, single parenthood and the rise of movements such as third wave feminism. As a result of these influences, hyper masculinity and fanaticism as reactionary movements will be explored.
The critical context for the time being is a focus on the applicability that the two texts have to the real world, Fight Club is …show more content…
Fielding says “But the double also can become a projection of our conscience (Freud’s ‘superego’) which we suppose to be censoring or criticising us.” Fielding’s understanding is rather accurate and is applicable to the real world, people often feel they are censoring themselves from their real selves for the sake of conforming to societal norms. Emphasis will also be placed on rebellion and counter cultures more as a fad than genuine dissent to the dominant