Fight Club (analysis of great

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"You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your Khakis. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake." In Fight club, we meet our main character that comes to us without a name. He can be referred to as, "Jerry", but his name is not important. He comes to us without a name because he represents any one man of those Generation X males living in our society at present. Jerry is a thirty-year-old man employed as a recall coordinator for a major automobile company. He lives in condo that is furnished with all the comforts of modern society, namely mass-produced furnishings that can be found in the homes of millions across North America. Jerry owns a car and has obtained a respectable wardrobe for himself over the course of time, but despite all those things, Jerry is not satisfied with his life. This is because Generation X males are dissatisfied, unhappy, confused or lost. Many people find that it is impossible to obtain a job or career where they are not part of the service industry in some way, shape or form. As societies priorities have become more and more materialistic and consumer-driven, people are finding themselves more and more distracted w

During Jerry's attendance at his weekly meeting he discovers a way of dealing with some his problems, through the use of guided meditation. In this form of meditation you are led to a cave, which contains their 'power animal'. This is a symbol of personal power, which embodies a way to overcome all obstacles they encounter in life. Jerry discovers that his 'power animal' is a penguin that tells Jerry to "slide". Through analysis of the penguin, it is noted that penguins although are bids cannot fly. Jerry is part of the human species yet he doesn't grasp what he can do, and feels restricted by his walls and has essentially made a cave to dwell in. The penguin is also symbolic in that penguins are also very' drone like' and happy in there atmosphere and travel in flocks. They also do not stray from their homes and baby penguins' stick close to their mothers.

The Fight Club has been officially established as a therapy session for gray collar workers, which Tyler believes, cleanses it of negative, meaningless violence. The Fight Club is now recognized as a group therapy session that soon replaces Jerry's need to attend the other group meetings at the church. Fight Club provides a place for these men to fight their fears, fears that they have been cheated and abandoned by their father. Fears that they are not god enough, strong enough or smart enough, fears that they will never be able to understand why they fell so trapped in their lives and unsatisfied, and also the fear being alone. As the movie progress Fight Club starts to gain more and more popularity. Now there are many chapters springing up all over the city and a new objective for Fight Club is at hand. It is interesting to note that the character of Tyler Durden is completely opposed to the rules of society, but he sees a need for rules in his club in order to prevent chaos.

ith their possessions, rather than with others. Relationships fail because of an increase in the number of single-parent families, in which there is predominately only a mother to act in a relationship, the situation brewing in this film.

After the brawl Jerry asks Tyler what he had really been fighting for Tyler replies "my father". This is a very important underlying theme within Fight Club the t

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