Chuck Yeager

In the film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, directed by Ben Stiller, Walter Mitty (played by Ben Stiller) lives an unadventurous lifestyle as a negative assists manager at Life Magazine. After the company gets bought out, Walter’s new boss Ted Hendricks (played by Adam Scott) says there will be cut backs on employees. Most at Life start to worry including Cheryl Melhoff, Walter’s love interest/ co-worker (played by Kristen Wiig). When Walter losses the last cover’s negative, number…

Freedom or Dictatorship Who has the authority to say what is and is not moral? Should people have the freedom to do whatever they please, or should they be restricted in the name of safety? In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, the culturally accepted idea of morality in 1960’s America is constantly questioned. Kesey writes the novel through the perspective of Chief Bromden, a man in the ward who acts deaf and dumb but can still speak and hear. In this institution, Nurse Ratched has…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, is a brilliantly written novel that shows his view of the world. Kesey uses a quiet and overlooked upon character named Chief Bromden, to show his point of view of the ward. The ward is ran by a Matriarchy. A Matriarchy is something that is ruled or ran by women. As you know, the book was published in the 60’s, and men and women had to strongly different views of political power. Men thought that women should not be in charge, and women thought the…

Fight Club is a postmodernist novel, which shows the reader how a group of people created a club about dealing with officials and American structure, officials, and androgen pumped men. Fight Club is basically an escape of reality in which whoever joins it cannot tell anyone outside of it. Tyler Durden feels trapped in his schizophrenic mind, along with a woman named Marla Singer, who fakes her diseases to join Fight Club. There is another person who is in the club named Bob Paulson. Bob comes…

"You are not your bank account, you are not the clothes you wear. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your bowel cancer. You are not your Grande Latte. You are not the car you drive. You are not your …. khakis." (Fincher 1999) David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club is a movie discussing issues in modern masculinity, social stratification and relations of power. By presenting us with a character completely opposite in the extremes of his alter egos. From here he shows us the issues…

Violence is a key part of the film “Fight Club” but it isn’t the centerpiece of the action. The philosophy of the of the film begins to starts with a fight between Tyler and the Narrator with the idea that what could you really know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight. This is the beginning of a philosophy of changing the world from being a society of consumers who don't know themselves into people who can see the world as it really is. Together Tyler and The Narrator build Fight…

The movie, Fight Club is a highly rated film among critics. It includes a well-known actor like Brad Pitt, unique themes, and plot twists. It includes society’s views in capitalism, consumerism, subjectivity, rules, and conformity. Various scenes within the movies show involve these, and so do the ideas and arguments by modern theorists connect with Fight Club. I will mainly focus on two theorists, Michel Foucault and David Abram. And tell how some of their ideas appear in various scenes in the…

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey demonstrates a new perspective that rules must be broken. The setting takes place in the ward which is authorized by Nurse Ratched, and her impeccable schedule. Randle McMurphy, a tumultuous, lustful, and brawl-loving Irish disrupts this everyday monotone routine. McMurphy conveys the impression of being self-indulgent by gambling, inviting girls, and drinking. Many believe that McMurphy’s role is that of a selfish egomaniac, however, I believe that…

Kesey’s One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest effectively presents powerless individuals mentally and physically imprisoned within a matriarchal system which ultimately dictates their identity. The norm of conformity and lack of comfort and ease is unravelled within the novel. The extreme conditions and barbaric treatment is present within the psychiatric hospital. The brutal nature is reinforced through the disabled chronic having ‘catheter tubes’ which ‘run direct from pant leg to the sewer under the…

Ken Kesey novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, tells a fictionalized tale regarding a mental asylum in the 1960s. By analyzing the novel, we can see that Kesey argues that games are the ideal and natural manner in which homosocial communities and friendships are created, both of which benefit men in curing their issues with masculinity; Kesey argues that games are the antithesis to the authority observed in society and institutions which aim to control men within stated rules and standards.…