Danielle Poole
English 101-901
Katie Bickham
27 November 2017
Emasculation
An unnamed narrator narrates the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, this might have been a choice made by Palahniuk to ensure that the readers are actively involved when reading the book, and to develop particular themes. The narrator is creating an alter ego by coping an dealing with an emasculated, self-centered, and materialistic society. Through having to deal with absent fathers, consumerism, and an aimless existence, Palahniuk is going to present how the men in modern society have now lost their masculine identity and the extreme actions that each one of them have to go through in order to obtain it again.
As men were belittled by their fathers, being in broken …show more content…
As Lee T states in his article, “Another restless “tourist” at the meeting is Marla Singer, to who Tyler is unable to connect in any healthy way, though there is a mutual attraction (420). As Marla enters into the narrator’s life, not only is this threating the relationship between him and Tyler as friends, but it is also a threat to the balance the two egos by exposing them as the same person. As the narrator starts to unravel the division of his personality, he begins questioning the existence of his masculine identity. Furthermore, it is the narrator’s feelings he has for Marla that Tyler’s existence and the masculinity, is threatened. When realizing that Marla’s life is in danger because of knowledge of project mayhem, the narrator attempts to shut fight club, and project mayhem. If these institutions are represenstation of a “masculine model”, the narrator’s attack on them is an attack on his own masculinity. Palahniuk states, “When the narrator attempts to shut down the chapters of fight club the space monkeys attempt to get him, “by the nuts” (187). The ‘models of masculinity’ of fight club, project mayhem, and Tyler Durden are created by the narrator basically in order to compensate for society’s complete lack of father figures. As the absence of their father’s does not only feminize the male but it renders an incomplete identity which without these institutions could only be filled by excessive consumption of the products society tells the men to buy in order to be
English 101-901
Katie Bickham
27 November 2017
Emasculation
An unnamed narrator narrates the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, this might have been a choice made by Palahniuk to ensure that the readers are actively involved when reading the book, and to develop particular themes. The narrator is creating an alter ego by coping an dealing with an emasculated, self-centered, and materialistic society. Through having to deal with absent fathers, consumerism, and an aimless existence, Palahniuk is going to present how the men in modern society have now lost their masculine identity and the extreme actions that each one of them have to go through in order to obtain it again.
As men were belittled by their fathers, being in broken …show more content…
As Lee T states in his article, “Another restless “tourist” at the meeting is Marla Singer, to who Tyler is unable to connect in any healthy way, though there is a mutual attraction (420). As Marla enters into the narrator’s life, not only is this threating the relationship between him and Tyler as friends, but it is also a threat to the balance the two egos by exposing them as the same person. As the narrator starts to unravel the division of his personality, he begins questioning the existence of his masculine identity. Furthermore, it is the narrator’s feelings he has for Marla that Tyler’s existence and the masculinity, is threatened. When realizing that Marla’s life is in danger because of knowledge of project mayhem, the narrator attempts to shut fight club, and project mayhem. If these institutions are represenstation of a “masculine model”, the narrator’s attack on them is an attack on his own masculinity. Palahniuk states, “When the narrator attempts to shut down the chapters of fight club the space monkeys attempt to get him, “by the nuts” (187). The ‘models of masculinity’ of fight club, project mayhem, and Tyler Durden are created by the narrator basically in order to compensate for society’s complete lack of father figures. As the absence of their father’s does not only feminize the male but it renders an incomplete identity which without these institutions could only be filled by excessive consumption of the products society tells the men to buy in order to be