Chuck Berry

The novel centers on unnamed narrator who struggles with life and suffers from insomnia. Henry A. Giroux says, “Fight club portrays a society in which public space collapses and is filled by middle-class white men disoriented in the pandemonium of conflicting social forces who end up with a lot of opportunities for violence” (71-72). He works as a Product Recall Specialist for unnamed company. He is responsible for determining if product recalls or detective models meet cost benefit analysis.…

The film Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel represents dissociative identity disorder throughout the main character (the narrator), who for the majority of the film was namelessly though referred to himself as “Jack” on a few occasions. The character is suffering from anxiety and depression thus bringing forth insomnia, as a response he tries to immerse himself with consumerism. Seemingly, nothing could help his problems until he met, “Tyler Durden”, a free spirited and impulsive…

1983, Philip Kaufman directed a unique film that encompassed the culture of America’s ambition to push the limits. The Right Stuff is a dramatic film that covers the historic events of the space race in the 1960’s. The film begins in a bar, where Chuck Yeager, a celebrated war veteran, steps through the door and approaches the bartender to order a drink. He overhears a conversation about test pilots attempting to break the sound barrier and, thirsty for glory, he signs himself up. The following…

Fight Club (1999) doesn’t need much of an introduction, and the first two rules state that I can’t talk about. I guess I’ll have to make an exception just this once; I just hope Tyler will be able to forgive me. The movie itself performed moderately well in its opening weekend but was ultimately a box office failure, as it only brought in about $37 million in revenue. The main character who is played by Edward Norton, a nameless narrator, is unhappy and discouraged with his mediocre life. In…

Ken Kesey’s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, is a well known piece of literature published in 1962 containing the theme of how society has the power to decide whether a person is really insane or not because of the way an individual exhibits themselves. Power and control are a motif reoccurring in the story which is different than the definition applied in the outside world than on the ward in which power is usually defined as the authority given to someone holding a higher position. Through…

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey, they patients and/or characters are often compared to and made reference to the Bible and to the religion of Christianity. Kesey creates the topic of the enviroment in the ward to be religious and Christian by comparing multiple incidents and situations to the characters and the plot itself. Scenarios where he creates the mood of religion was with the situation with Ellis a biblical reference, the fishing trip that they all went on, and the time…

Liz Holt, Barry Fife and Shirley Hastings are three characters from Strictly Ballroom, who are artificial and believe their actions, either good or bad, are for the greater glory of dancing. It could be said that Liz Holt is ambitious, prefers to stick to the rules and will do anything it takes to win. After Scott and Liz loose at the Warathas State Championships, she tells Scott that she does not give a shit about his new steps. She wants Pam Shorts, Ken Railing’s dancing partner to break both…

Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, tells the story of a nameless narrator who struggles with a double personality disorder. Throughout Palahniuk’s novel, the narrator slowly evolves to become more like his “best friend”, which eventually leads the protagonist to live a life of chaos and dissatisfaction. In literature, there are characters that are either known for being reliable or unreliable. One can figure out if a character is reliable or unreliable by reading the text. In addition, reliability…

the right decision (don’t know what you mean, rephrase) . The imagination is a powerful tool and has been with humans ever since inception; it just becomes repressed by the reality of society. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk both have literary characters who create illusions to have a sense of acknowledgement to reinforce that their choice was the correct one. They show the characteristics of a person who is living a life to just consume the materialistic…

balance himself out and control Tyler but he is exhausted and doesn’t have the ability to fight him off. The only thing the narrator could do, in his opinion, was to shoot himself just so Tyler would stop his destruction. In the book, Fight Club by Chuck Palanhiuk, the main theme of the story is freedom from society. Tyler was created because of the lack of connection the narrator had with the people around him. The narrator was lost and didn’t know what to do with himself because of his…