Joe and Tyler’s underground fight clubs soon spread throughout the country as their outlet for society-based anger captivates more unsatisfied men, including the audience. Unbeknownst to Joe, Tyler has been travelling around the country, starting fight clubs and giving each member of them homework assignments. From destroying coffee shops to defacing buildings, fight club is no longer an underground operation. Instead, Tyler has created terrorists out of distraught, confused men who are stimulated by destroying all that has confined their emotions. The twist towards the end, where Tyler is revealed to be a split personality of Joe’s imagination and that Joe had been enacting both the actions of himself and Tyler, reinforcing his idea of wish
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He has the ethos of a leader who has achieved his own form of enlightenment, escaped all social barriers, and is worshiped by men of all ages in the film who want to experience the lack of limitations. In society, laws and social constructs are established to prevent people from acting on their instincts as human nature is deemed as …show more content…
But through the act of beating himself, getting hurt and experiencing everything outside of corporate America, Tyler is able to create his own little society outside of the norm that, “clearly and graphically values difference and impulse” (Burgess 271). Because of the stark differences between Tyler’s creation and reality, the viewer, who has been engulfed in Fight Club’s reality, has a longing for this impulsive life. Getting to feel like a man or feel important is the main catalyst for men in the film to act out and destroy public property. A male viewer feels the need to break out of his hollow, societally programmed life considering the enticing lifestyle that Tyler creates. In essence, when society knocks men down, Tyler’s way of thinking offers a catharsis and the ability to finally lash out against it.
As the film proceeds and the actions of fight club members continue, the line between destruction and self-liberation become blurred. For the viewer who is watching, causing harm or mitigating his own society-induced pain no longer remains mutually exclusive. Many critics have described
He has the ethos of a leader who has achieved his own form of enlightenment, escaped all social barriers, and is worshiped by men of all ages in the film who want to experience the lack of limitations. In society, laws and social constructs are established to prevent people from acting on their instincts as human nature is deemed as …show more content…
But through the act of beating himself, getting hurt and experiencing everything outside of corporate America, Tyler is able to create his own little society outside of the norm that, “clearly and graphically values difference and impulse” (Burgess 271). Because of the stark differences between Tyler’s creation and reality, the viewer, who has been engulfed in Fight Club’s reality, has a longing for this impulsive life. Getting to feel like a man or feel important is the main catalyst for men in the film to act out and destroy public property. A male viewer feels the need to break out of his hollow, societally programmed life considering the enticing lifestyle that Tyler creates. In essence, when society knocks men down, Tyler’s way of thinking offers a catharsis and the ability to finally lash out against it.
As the film proceeds and the actions of fight club members continue, the line between destruction and self-liberation become blurred. For the viewer who is watching, causing harm or mitigating his own society-induced pain no longer remains mutually exclusive. Many critics have described