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Fight Club - College Term Papers

Fight Club

Fight Club is a movie about a man, played by Edward Norton, having a personality of another man named Tyler Durden being played by Brad Pitt. The man played by Edward Norton (whom I will call the man for the rest of this paper) is suffering from some sort of sickness (insomnia), which he describes as if “everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy”. Tyler appears as the man’s another personality while sleeping. The man declares that Tyler is a dream, a projection, a disassociative personality disorder, a hallucination. To be able to prevent Tyler from taking over at everything, the man asks Marla, the woman he love, to keep him awake.

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inflicted his wills over the other members of the fight club. Tyler is the stronger side of the man’s personality. He is the personality of the man who surpassed himself. Moreover, in relation of the man’s weak character, Nietzsche offers that mankind as it exists is a disease of a 'sickness' which is destroying itself, reflecting the poor nature of a modern man and his lack of pro-activism, being seen as a purely passive creature unable to rebel and define his life. Tyler is what Friedrich Nietzsche calls “overman” who replaces the passive man, as we can see into the man’s weak character. The superman has a ‘will to power’ to set values and goals not only for oneself but also for the ...

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Added: 5/29/2012 12:06:35 PM
Submitted By: Amesbmama
Category: Film & Theater
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 351
Pages: 2

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