Introduction
“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.” Said Chuck Palahniuk in novel fight club 1996. Fight club is a 200 page novel which revolves around a young men who struggling with insomnia. Here Chuck Palahniuk, through words would have portrayed the formation of a new personality by the protagonist to escape his mind prison that rages war between good and bad in this fore-fathers illustrated world.
Brief
The author here paints the concept of the lifeless life run by people in the illusions created merely by the 5% of people for their benefits , “God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very very pissed off.” A quote from the novel
Save your time!
We can take care of your essay
- Proper editing and formatting
- Free revision, title page, and bibliography
- Flexible prices and money-back guarantee
Place an order
Key points
- The life we live saying we live to the fullest is merely a simple fulfilment of the appetite of greediness of the corporate masterminds.
- Our desire leads to surrender, Our surrender motivates their power.
- Self-knowledge is a conundrum for people those who haven’t been in a fight.
The insomnia protagonist in the novel gets addicted to crying off on people shoulders with real pain by faking sickness and running into support group for the sick for he finds the cure for insomnia . The protagonist’s unique treatment works until he meets Marla Singer, another 'tourist' who visits the support group under false pretenses. The possibly disturbed Marla reminds the protagonist that he is a faker who does not belong there. He begins to hate Marla for keeping him from crying, and, therefore, from sleeping. After a confrontation, the two agree to attend separate support group meetings to avoid each other. The truce is uneasy, and the protagonist’s insomnia returns.
The protagonist then runs into the character Tyler Durden at a public place where they exchange cards, which helps him finds a place to bunk with Tyler Dyden after his condominium catches fire Tyler agrees, but asks for something in return: 'I want you to hit me as hard as you can.'Both men find that they enjoy the ensuing fistfight. They subsequently move in together and establish a 'fight club', drawing numerous men with similar temperaments into bare-knuckle fighting matches. A mechanic of the same temperament suggests “nobody is the centre of the fight club except for the two men fighting, and the fight club will always be free”.
As fight club becomes a nationwide presence, Tyler uses it to spread his anti-consumerist ideas, taking fight club's members to participate in increasingly elaborate pranks on corporate America. He eventually gathers the most devoted fight club members and forms 'Project Mayhem', a cult-like organization that cultivates itself as an army to bring down modern civilization.
Moment of twist towards the end
Regarding the book has to end somewhere. The protagonist then learns that he himself is nothing but Tyler Durden. The formation of a new personality by the protagonist to escape his own mind prison
As the narrator's mental state deteriorated, his mind formed a new personality that was able to escape from the problems of his life. The protagonist being clueless asks the Project Mayhem members, And they tells that the protagonist and Tyler are in-fact the same person. The protagonist's bouts of insomnia had been Tyler's personality surfacing; Tyler was active whenever the protagonist was 'sleeping'. The Tyler Durden personality not only created fight club, this character was which blew up the protagonist’s condo, as an act to free him from illusions in the world.
Conclusion
The happiness and happenings you read in your life is the ones that can’t be unread. It’s basically everybody’s personal call on how they sketch their life, it’s up to them. The manifestation of our desires should be unanticipated rather than being scheduled, by someone who say themselves that they have the authority.