The Last Fight

Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her is about a letter writer named Theodore who falls in love with his phone’s operating system. Theodore is lonely and going through a divorce. One day he sees an advertisement for OS1, a new “artificially intelligent” operating system. The ad states, “It’s not just an operating system, it’s a consciousness.” He purchases it and sets it up to have a female voice. When Theodore asks what he should call her, she chooses the name Samantha. She says that she can grow and…

FIGHT CLUB AND POST-MODERNISM In the Postmodernity, the traditional structures of the world have fallen precipitously. The industrial revolution has ended in complete failure, achieving success has not promoted the welfare among humans and religion has ceased to be transcendent, hence the Nietzsche postulate that "God is dead". Religion has become the worst enemy of freedom of thought. The belief in the virtues of education and the advances in science have also fallen to the ground. This…

Consumerism and Symbolism in Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club discusses ideas related to consumerism. A society deeply rooted in consumerism is shown to give people a false sense of self-worth and security, be toxic to humans and the planet, and be an issue that cannot be improved, only destroyed. The theme of consumerism in Palahniuk’s Fight Club is supported and developed through the use of symbols such as place of residence, soap, and cancer. Those who adopt a consumerist…

In the movie Fight Club the main character Jack had displayed many psychological issues, but within the first scenes had declared a defining statement that began to depict Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) saying, “I know this because Tyler knows this” (Comer,) The movie progressed to depict missing segments in Jack’s life as a recurring theme, ones that went beyond normal moments and into elongated time periods to which had Jack wake up in places he had no idea he was inside of (Comer,).…

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…

Tyler, a high school senior, is viewed as an outcast and gets overlooked by every single student in his class. That is, until he gets busted spray painting his school and spends his summer doing work to pay for it, he then stands out like you wouldn’t believe. It begins to set off a string of events that have Tyler questioning his place in the world and with his family. He has always struggled with suicidal thoughts, never thinking he was strong enough for anything and was repeatedly…

When we think of honesty, we think of not lying, but it is so much more. It is staying honest to your true self and doing so for your own good, instead of others (Ellison, 1952). I found myself reflecting on what this reading taught us within the last few weeks. As a biology major, I was unhappy, but it was what my parents had dreamed of me doing. I was expected to graduate from Grand View, make my way to a top-rated graduate school, and become a physical therapist. It was something I had…

First Website: www.factcheck.org This is personally one of my most frequented websites because of the last election period. Factcheck.org is one of the oldest fact checking websites on the Internet today. Since starting in 2003, the website has made it a part of their mission statement to “increase public knowledge and understanding” so that viral and false rumors don’t run rampant in our society. Because of their goal to boost awareness, the website has always been very transparent about where…

Before he ever wrote Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk’s father was murdered, he despised being a journalist, he worked with NPR, and for a while, he worked with people who were terminally ill. (Chalmers) Published in 1996, Fight Club was made into a movie only three years later. The book was based heavily on his own life experiences, such as his membership in the Cacophony Society, which inspired “Project Mayhem”. His work with the terminally ill, especially the death of a patient to whom he had…

Identity The novel Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, tells a story about two men bringing a societal revolution and new era of self-identity. The men in this novel reject to conform to society’s norms and attempt to strip away the unnecessary parts of their lives and discover their true selves. Ultimately, the lives of many revolve around their status and properties, characters achieve a new sense of identity and purpose with the new relationships with themselves, Tyler Durden and Fight Club. The…