Chuck Yeager

Tyler buys the narrator drinks and uses sexual language before their first fight, which signifies that fighting, like sex, is an intimate thing. Before this scene takes place, the viewer discovers that the narrator’s apartment blows up, and he remains homeless. Having no one else to call, he calls Tyler, and Tyler takes him to the bar to buy him drinks. The narrator needs a place to stay, and Tyler tells him to “cut the foreplay and just ask” (Fight Club). Later on throughout the scene, the…

Abstract: The play “Red Oleanders” is first written in Bengali language under the title “RaktaKarabhi”. Tagore conveys the message that the Utilitarian approach and vast industrialization throughout the world would resulting in diminishing human compassion and cause Ecological Imbalance.So he used characters as a metaphor of human instincts such as greed, power, envy, love, trust, and sacrifice. The play Red oleanders is a One-act play which follows the Aristotle’s rules. He fallow’s three…

An Idiot Abroad What will happen when a touchy couch potato becomes a reluctant world traveler? An Idiot Abroad can give you the answer. In this British travel comedy series, a man named Karl Pilkington is sent by his friends, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, to travel to several foreign countries around the world. In the episode that is to be discussed here, he was made to visit Thailand and was asked to perform a variety of quirky tasks assigned by his friends. There are certain elements in…

to get away from and though we are the captains of our own ships, there are certain moments in our lives that we can’t escape. It is when the antecedent events press on our comfort zones that transgressions seem to manifest. This is the case with Chuck Palahnuik’s Fight Club and Lullaby where the past is the cause for murder, corruption, supernatural manifestations, Oedipal complexes and the destruction of normal ideologies. Murder is one of the major themes in Palahnuik’s transgressionary…

“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different,” King should know having written many novels that are adapted to films. Both the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian and screen play of the film Smoke Signals, written by Sherman Alexie, attempts to demolish the idea of an archetypal aboriginal person from a Native “Rez,” but the film addresses this in a more effective way. The film has a naïve Thomas and an indifferent Victor…

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a comedic drama about a Negative Assets Manager at Life Magazine, Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller), a nice underdog who has taken one too many hits from the world and resorts to maladaptive daydreaming as a coping mechanism. When the negative for the final cover of Life goes missing under Walter's supervision, he must venture across the world and learn to stand on his own two feet in order to recover the missing negative and win the affection of coworker Cheryl…

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…

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…