A Greater Sense of Identity
The novel Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, tells a story about two men bringing a societal revolution and new era of self-identity. The men in this novel reject to conform to society’s norms and attempt to strip away the unnecessary parts of their lives and discover their true selves. Ultimately, the lives of many revolve around their status and properties, characters achieve a new sense of identity and purpose with the new relationships with themselves, Tyler Durden and Fight Club.
The main character, whom the author choses to leave nameless, starts to reconsider his lifestyle, self-worth and who he is as a person. The narrator is reflecting on his self-image and states, “Everything is so far away, a copy, of a copy, …show more content…
The narrator comments on fight club by stating, “You see a guy come to fight club for the first time, and his ass is a loaf of white bread. You see this same guy here six months later, and he looks carved out of wood. This guy trusts himself to handle anything” (Palahniuk,51). Palahniuk uses a metaphor to represent someone who has not been to fight club as white bread, processed, mass produced and fake. Whereas after fight club, to resemble carved wood, firm, sturdy and all natural. The narrator created fight club to become another person, however, these newcomers did not join battle club on the grounds that they do not have anything to lose. The specifications of fight club include, “Fight club exists only in the hours between when fight club starts and when fight club ends. Who guys are in fight club is not who they are in the real world” (Palahiniuk,49). Not all individuals join Fight club in light of the fact that they need to be another person. Some individuals are experts: office specialists, specialists and attorneys. Society has characterized them as skilled and beneficial people. Fight club grants them an opportunity to let out their forceful side and for a minute in any event, turn into an alternate individual. As the novel goes on, Fight club evolves into project Mayhem. It is best described by Tyler as “Its project Mayhem that’s going to save the world. A cultural ice age” (Palahniuk,124). Project Mayhem 's objective is to disturb the social request. In pursuit for its objective, the association minimizes the part of the individual and instead emphasises the significance of acting as a gathering. The ice age is signifying the destruction of society on a large scale. Fight Club and its sister organizations have lead their disciples to achieve a new self-goal but not only as individuals but as a whole
The novel Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, tells a story about two men bringing a societal revolution and new era of self-identity. The men in this novel reject to conform to society’s norms and attempt to strip away the unnecessary parts of their lives and discover their true selves. Ultimately, the lives of many revolve around their status and properties, characters achieve a new sense of identity and purpose with the new relationships with themselves, Tyler Durden and Fight Club.
The main character, whom the author choses to leave nameless, starts to reconsider his lifestyle, self-worth and who he is as a person. The narrator is reflecting on his self-image and states, “Everything is so far away, a copy, of a copy, …show more content…
The narrator comments on fight club by stating, “You see a guy come to fight club for the first time, and his ass is a loaf of white bread. You see this same guy here six months later, and he looks carved out of wood. This guy trusts himself to handle anything” (Palahniuk,51). Palahniuk uses a metaphor to represent someone who has not been to fight club as white bread, processed, mass produced and fake. Whereas after fight club, to resemble carved wood, firm, sturdy and all natural. The narrator created fight club to become another person, however, these newcomers did not join battle club on the grounds that they do not have anything to lose. The specifications of fight club include, “Fight club exists only in the hours between when fight club starts and when fight club ends. Who guys are in fight club is not who they are in the real world” (Palahiniuk,49). Not all individuals join Fight club in light of the fact that they need to be another person. Some individuals are experts: office specialists, specialists and attorneys. Society has characterized them as skilled and beneficial people. Fight club grants them an opportunity to let out their forceful side and for a minute in any event, turn into an alternate individual. As the novel goes on, Fight club evolves into project Mayhem. It is best described by Tyler as “Its project Mayhem that’s going to save the world. A cultural ice age” (Palahniuk,124). Project Mayhem 's objective is to disturb the social request. In pursuit for its objective, the association minimizes the part of the individual and instead emphasises the significance of acting as a gathering. The ice age is signifying the destruction of society on a large scale. Fight Club and its sister organizations have lead their disciples to achieve a new self-goal but not only as individuals but as a whole