Fight Club

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to the poster and says, “Is that what a man looks like” (Fight Club, 1999). Society tells us how we should look, what to own, and even what to say. An object as simple as a billboard of a skinny, tall, starved supermodel can cause women all over the world to go as far as becoming anorexic to portray these images that society has provided. The unnamed main character was living a life with no direction or further future, he finds himself shopping from consumer catalogs to relieve himself from his everyday structured life. “A slave to the ‘IKEA nesting instinct,’ Jack self-consciously offers up rhetorical questions such as ’What kind of dining set defines me as a person?’ But Jack’s IKEA-designed apartment appears to offer him no respite from the emptiness in his life, and his consumerist urges only seem to reinforce his lack of enthusiasm for packing himself as a corporate puppet and presenting himself as a Tom Peters up-and-coming ’brand name’” (Dr. Giroux, 2010).
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main character was hesitant to hit Tyler, Tyler asks “Have you never been in a fight?” and the main character said “No.” Tyler responds by saying, “How much can you possibly know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight” (Fight Club, 1999). Fighting was more than just a way to give themselves relief from their lives, it gave them a way to be a part of something bigger and meaningful. The fight club soon turned into a large group of males that were rebels of society, The fight club then transitioned to a group called “Project Mayhem”, and their main goal was to blow up the credit card company buildings to eliminate their records so that everyone would have a debt of zero and ...

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