Chuck Palahniuk

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…

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…

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…

The film, Awakenings, is based on a true story from the book of neurologist Oliver Sacks’. In this film, Robert de Niro plays as Leonord Lowe, who is affected by sleepy sickness as a young man. He was unable to move or speak. He was visited by her mother every day to look after him as she has for many years. Robin Williams plays as Dr. Malcolm Sayer, which is the neurologist in the film, like Dr. Sacks who discovered the forgotten survivors of the sleepy sickness epidemic. He finds himself drawn…

[his] hands on everything in the world that didn’t work” (Palahniuk 53). This is the narrator’s way of rebelling against the societal standard of what a life was believed to be, which includes a routine of going to work, and owning a house full of furniture that is supposed to be representative of one’s character. Fight Club expands under the control of the narrator and Tyler Durden with “the rules [Tyler] and [the narrator] decided” (Palahniuk 54), as their vision of fighting in a controlled…

The 1960’s witnessed a sprawling reformation in American society through its treatment of minorities. In the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, the author illuminates societies unfair treatment of the mentally ill. Through the perspective of a long time patient, Chief Bromden, the reader becomes a witness to the cruel treatment from the wards controller, Nurse Ratched. Chief Bromden’s meticulous description of each day illustrates the degrading and mechanical power of the ward’s…

Sanjeev CP English 11 October 9, 2015 Morphing from a Sexless Rabbit to a Real Man “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest”, a novel based on some degree of author’s, Ken Kesey’s, reality reveals the lifestyles of the people in a mental institution during 1960s. His impactful message is displayed through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the narrator of the story who is a victim of generational trauma: his reality was robbed away and kicked into the mental institution. He was drugged to a point till his…

Sociological Movie Review – Fight Club Submitted for SOCI 1001B 7 October, 2015 Vishahan Thilagakumar 100994856 TA: Mira Knox Instructor: Priscillia Lefebvre Fight Club - Sociological Movie Review Fight Club is a movie involving a man, played by Edward Norton (Although the name of the character isn’t mentioned, but referred to in the credits as The Narrator), living in a very systematic, civilized and repetitive world, who snaps and ends up being forced to abandon everything he has…