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Fight Club is an exhilarating thriller directed by David Fincher (Se7en, Gone Girl). This movie was considered one of the most controversial of the year due to its “Fight the System” attitude. The narrator is a nameless, white-collared employee of a law firm who is plagued by insomnia and depression. He medicates his depression through consumerism, a frequent and steady acquisition of “things”. “I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person”, he asks…

David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club, addresses identity and conformity all throughout the film. There are many instances where the Narrator fights with how he wants to be identified. The Narrator wants nothing more than to become a strong independent guy so much so that he creates an alternate identity to better conform to the society he lives in. However, Fight Club in many ways shows how conformity in the long run gradually causes a person to lose who they are. Fight Club’s persistent focus…

Dr Heidegger invited four of his elderly friends over including Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, and Widow Wycherley to his rather eerie study. All of them have used up their fortunes, and now they are unhappy. The three men used to fight over Widow Wycherly when they were younger, it was said to be that Widow was very beautiful when younger. When they guests arrives at Dr. Heidegger's house, they go to his study. His creepy study contains, among other things, a bust of…

The movie Fight Club takes place in Wilmington, Delaware and starts off with a narrator, whose name is unknown, that works for an auto insurance company. He suffers from insomnia and his doctor refuses to prescribe him medication for it. Instead he suggests that he attends a support group for testicular cancer victims. Once the narrator attends the support group, he realized that it gives him some sort of emotional release that relieves his insomnia. He quickly becomes addicted to attending…

Fight Club is a perfect novel for the times. Many American men, including myself, have found that they are frustrated with modern day society’s views are how we should behave. Chuck took this issue head on, creating a character who was well behaved on the surface, but haunted by something dark deep down inside of him. This in turn made him want to fight, or “destroy something beautiful” not for any particular reason, but to just feel the pain from it or to feel anything at all. Justin Garrison…

Fight Club is about how an average man is unfulfilled with his life. He’s an insomniac that goes to these support groups that help people go through diseases in hopes to get a nights sleep. He discovers that his spirit animal is a penguin; penguins are flightless birds that always wear a suit and are weak. He creates this masculine alpha male he wants to become in his mind. The theme is masculinity. Tyler Durden is what the narrator wants to be; confident, charismatic, powerful, sexually…

In the movie Fight Club, Edward Norton stars as an unnamed man, who is both the narrator and the protagonist. This man is discontent with his white-collar job, depressed, and plagued with insomnia. His only solace is to attend support groups for various afflictions and illnesses, none of which he possesses. In one of his various support groups, he meets a woman named Marla Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carter, who is also a support group imposter or “tourist.” Her presence robs him of his…

Tyler Clementi was an 18 year old freshman in college who hasn’t come out as openly gay. He shared a room with another student who had linked the camera of a laptop in their room to another laptop in another room, enabling him to spy on Tyler when he was in the room alone. One night Tyler had asked for the room alone until midnight and the roommate agreed. With the computer that was connected to the camera of the laptop in their room he saw Tyler having an intimate moment with another man and…

They see that they are unsatisfied when trying to achieve the male American dream and have no gratification in their lives. Fight Club members see that their job does not define them but often in the male American dream, a man’s job is his value. Through the constant pressure to conform to society’s standards, the male loses his true identity and becomes a slave to working for the male American dream, giving him no sense of self, worth or pride therefore losing masculinity and identity by only…

The Synonymy Of Madness And Sexism In Fincher’s Fight Club And Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” The presence of gender roles is undeniable in the 1999 movie Fight Club and the Victorian poem “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning. Both works have an unnamed narrator on a quest for masculinity through power and violence. While the behavior of the narrators in Fight club and “Porphyria’s Lover” appears to be proof of their madness, it is actually used to demonstrate the skewed view of masculinity in…