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Theme:Desire to escape (Peace (Tyler creates project mayhem to cause…
Theme:Desire to escape
Characters
Main Character
-Feels like his life is going nowhere
“Tyler Durden is a seperate personality I have created and now he's threatening to take over my life” (129,Palahniuk)
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Marla
-“I want a real experience of death”(24,Palahniuk) and she goes to support groups and used to work at a funeral to try and simulate what this experience could be like
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Mechanic
“We are all going to die someday"(105,Palahniuk). Mechanic tells the main character this after he tells him to live his life with no regrets and sets an example by almost crashing the car.
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Life
Marla
Marla was always interested in the idea of death and how it will inevitably happen to her. "Marla's Philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment"(75, Palahniuk).
Tyler
The main character is done with being bossed around and controlled by Tyler so at the end he wants to finish what he started and kill Tyler even if it means killing himself to do so. "I'm not killing myself, I yell. I'm killing Tyler"(153, Palahniuk). He wants to escape his suffering because of Tyler's actions and one of the few ways to do that is to take his own life.
Project Mayhem
They believe in everything Tyler has said without any questions. This is because they do not like their ordinary lives. "The first rule about project mayhem, Big Bob says with his heels together and his and his ramrod straight, is you don't ask questions about project Mayhem"(95, Palahniuk). This shows that they are willing to do whatever Tyler demands and are also willing to commit to this project.
Peace
Tyler creates project mayhem to cause complete anarchy. "You justify anarchy"(89,Palahniuk). Tyler is scared that peace in society is trying to control him by telling him what to do such as having to work a 9 to 5 job. He ends up trying to rebel against the system by committing acts of domestic terrorism such as castrating people, going to car dealerships and breaking cars, etc.
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The narrator supports Tyler's actions at the beginning of the novel and likes the idea of fight club. This was when he felt he had no control over his life and wanted to take out his anger and frustration. Once he started going to fight club every week he started to show more attitude to his boss and was acting more hostile. When his boss starts provoking him he says "it sounds like some dangerous psychotic killer wrote this, and this buttoned-down schizophrenic could go over the edge at any moment in the working day and stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-180 carbine gas-operated semiautomatic"(68, Palahniuk)
Tyler's followers also agree with his idea of anarchy and are willing to do anything he says to rebel against society to cause anarchy. This includes even castrating their own leader"You know the drill, Mr. Durden. You said it yourself. You said, if anyone ever tries to shut down the club, even you, then we have to get them by the nuts"(139, Palahniuk). This shows that they are unable to think for themselves and just want the plans for project Mayhem to succeed to gain their own power by taking away from other people.
Fear
Society
Project Mayhem is created to rebel against society and to cause anarchy. This suggests Tyler is afraid of society forcing him to make choices that he does not want to make.This starts off small for example they change what the newspapers say " 'recycle all the animals.' Reading the newspaper, I knew the misinformation committee had pulled this"(106,Palahniuk). This eventually becomes worse and Tyler then starts to kill people.
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Losing power
All the people who join fight club feel like they are powerless in their normal lives and want to know what they are really capable of doing. "If you ever get into a fight, you wonder. About getting hurt, about what you're capable of doing against another man"(36,Palahniuk)
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