Research on Fight Club-Part 3(Masculinity and Feminity)

 Fight club shows how men lose their characteristics of masculinity and how to recover it from society.For instance, let us look the Narrator, his activities and thoughts slightly have a touch in feminity.In one scene  Narrator's teeth fall down.Tyler tells "Hey even Monalisa's falling apart" because Narrator cares about fairness, Tyler tells this to avoid a sadness in Narrator.He buys things for decorating the house, which are the activities of women.After joining in fight club, he loses teeth, fairness, and get a bleeding face.These are the activities of traditional men.

 In the film, there are very few women presented on the screen.They are figured as crazy sexual creatures.This is not like "Fight club degrade the feminity", but conveys the projections of society's thought about women.Recall the quotation,"Self-improvement is masturbation".This quote is a connector between masculinity and consumerism."Self-improvement" means owning things and decorate the home,"Masturbation" is the significance of the self-destruction.So the idea is "Consumerism deconstructs the masculinity".This is the reason why the narrator represents the feminity because he loses the mannerism of men and decorating the condo with IKEA furniture.

 Fight club portraits all men characters in the movie as a symbol of feminity except Tyler Durden.For example, let's look the Narrator's boss, he loves corn-flower blue color which represents the "sweetness".Also remember the group of men in "Remaining men together".They release their sadness by crying, "Crying and releasing emotions" is the significance of feminity.But Tyler needs the society of pure men so he starts the Fight Club. Violence is one of the characteristics of masculinity so It can help to re-masculine the man.

 Tyler believes fight club can grow the leadership and dominative skills among the members.And those members don't get afraid of losing fairness and hair.They truly want to submit themselves for some meaningful purpose.To give an illustration to my idea, I note the quote of Norman Mailer, that is "Masculine is not something given to you, but something you gain, and you gain it by winning small battles".So Tyler trusts the Fight club as a school of "Re-masculinity".    

Research on Fight Club-Part 2(Consumerism and individuality)

  I can commemorate the quotation from the fight club."The Things you own end up owning you".It exhibits how we become addicted to things.Nowadays products are very magnetic, People easily defines one person by his possessions.Corporate world triggers fantasy inside people's thoughts.And we become day dreamers.We imagine ourselves as superheroes and rock stars, but the matter of the fact is different. This is why Tyler says that "We have no great wars".He claims that we have no great leaders to rule the world instead of making laziness among the people.To give an illustration to my idea, that is "It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you".  We lose our individuality, by owing materialistic life.To give a light to my thought, recall the narrator dad's dialogue"Get a job, next get married ".It shows that we are previously programmed by the same bullshit formula.

    Chuck Palahniuk mentions this quotation in his another novel named Lullaby,"Are these things really better than things I already have? or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?"It would seem that we will never get satisfaction, in our current life, It augurs the truth, there is no end to owning things.Because consumers are manipulated by manufacturers who says that "Growth of science". We are terminated to achieve the will power."It's only you lose everything that you're free to do anything".In this line what "everything" means, It is the things owning ourselves.It is the only reason behind our weakness.


  Tyler Durden has expert advertising skill. For instance, attracting and "Make-listening" the people is one of the skills for commercial success.Tyler did it, he magnifies people by his minimalistic and nihilistic thoughts. And he makes those space-monkeys to talk about fight club because human wants to speak about a lot of things which are banned and not-advisable.so Tyler gives the first rule,"Do not talk about fight club".By these points, Tyler has an extraordinary business mind.

   Our protagonist(s) deals with two type of bosses.Firstly Narrator's boss who loved the corn-flower blue color, secondly the native owner of the place where the members were fighting.In the first case, Narrator beats own self wisely as per the monologue"I am Jack's smirking revenge".And achieve what he wants.In the second case, Tyler's actions can be compared to the biblical quotation,"If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also"(From Luke 26:9).And he can be compared to the form of Jesus Christ.

Research on Fight Club-Part 1(Nihilism)

             I see fight club as a bridge of desires and passion.And I can remember that Tyler always wanted us to be space monkeys, he wants ourselves more active, and destroy for some meaningful purpose.According to the nihilism,"No one will remind you because the history will vanish", So the whole system is not about the moral, only about activeness.Recall the quote of Tyler "We are God's unwanted children, so be it".We have to do something to prove our aliveness.We should come from our imaginations and designs.Pain is real, pain is the only thing to reach our goal, It is the only way to prove the Masculinity. "If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?". the idea is "Be something " is better than "Be nothing".

Image from IFC,

       Scars and Blood are the only things that talk about us. Sociology states that "No one will spread your skills and specialty to others, but they strew your weakness", so the need is not about our character, it is only about existentialism.No matter how we are, and how to control ourselves against anarchy. Do you ever asking yourself,"Why the fight club is present in "Fight Club"?. It can carry itself by its minimalistic script and mind-bending prestige.But why?.Because we have to know what is the physical truth?, pain, and moral conscience of our strength.


     "Knowing capacity" is one of the processes to achieve Nihilism.Recall the third rule of fight club,"If someone yells 'stop' goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over" After across the scars and blood, he can knows his capacity and "Who he is?", "Who the opposite guy is?" The point is he can accept his boundaries.So fight club is not about winners and losers, It is only about "True pain".


      Nihilism states that "Complete disbelief in belief".There are no truths to believe", Science may change its theory day to day.Which means we accept the statements of authorized persons and corporate companies.For instance, one scene from the movie, where space-monkeys changes the News board "You can use old motor oil to fertilize your lawn".Which symbolizes that we believe things blindly.Philosophy of optimistic-nihilism rejects all beliefs accepted by civilization.And it asks

"People will be born and die, In between why the creation of civilization and culture?"