Sunday, January 12, 2014

Fight Club: Theme

Now fight club deepens in plot and confusion, as well as begins to start telling a story of morals and manhood. The protagonists apartment blows up in a fiery explosion one day while he's traveling forcing him to stay with his only friend Tyler. One night at the bar both are drunk and Tyler asks to be punched in the stomach. The protagonist proceeds to lay one into his face. Tyler responds without warning and they launch into an all out fight. But the point was not to harm the other in anger, but to let all that bent up aggression out on the other guy. They continued this in the coming weeks growing spectators. Others would soon fight also for the same goal. So they decided to find a better place where they could continue their "therapy" which they found to be the basement of  a neighboring bar after closing. A list of rules were created. One, don't talk about Fight Club. Two, Don't talk about fight club. And three, if this is your first night you have to fight. The club gave these men more drive to work and stay fit, Fight Club gave them a new sense of what being a man was, and they knew it wasn't sculpting their body for their image. They went to the gym and kept themselves fit so they could hit harder and take more hits. This all alludes to what I think is the Theme of "Fight Club" which is that the world is to boring for some, new outlets can be made. Tyler and our main character found something that reached their animalistic lust for violence as well as their need for brotherhood. Also Tyler is sleeping with Marla Singer. The woman the main character hates.    

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