Themes from Fight Club by Mette Vollbrecht Würtz Petersen https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98 Pick one theme. Write a paragraph down OR record a video to explain why you think this is a theme that fits the movie/novel. Use at least one scene/one quotation from the movie to back it up and upload it to padlet. Use the notes from the group work yesterday to find arguments. (Focus here is on reaching the highest taxonomic level when analysing) Social Class //Masculinity // Violence // Identity // Love // Consumer society // Alienation // Mental Illness en-us 2020-06-24 14:20:56 UTC 2020-06-24 14:20:59 UTC hello@padlet.com Mathias/Perception of reality https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813300 The people in the movie spend a lot of time trying to figure out which reality to believe in. The protagonist sees Tyler and himself as two different persons, which definitely is a distorted perception. At the same time Tyler is trying to make others believe in his perception of reality - that nothing really matters and that you are alone and on your own through your entire life. The movie does not give the answer, probably because it is a postmodern movie, which does not believe in an absolute truth.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813300 Trine/Consumer society https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813301 One of the themes in the novel/movie Fight Club is “consumer society.” The protagonist of the novel/movie is a typical product of the consumer culture that he lives in. At the beginning of the novel/movie, he focuses on material things for example the brand he is wearing: “my DKNY shoes, my (…)”. He also owns every piece of Ikea furniture and he is working as a white collar worker, which is a reflection of the consumerism. The protagonist seems to be fine with living his life as a part of this consumer culture, and it seems as if he has just accepted that that is the way it is and that it cannot be changed: “Like so many others, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct ... I'd flick through catalogues and wonder, ‘What kind of dining set defines me as a person?’”. It shows that the material things are controlling people’s identity, and the word ‘slave’ indicates that the protagonist is not satisfied with it being that way. That is where Tyler comes into the picture. After the protagonist meets Tyler, his id, who is representing primitivism, cultivated instincts and masculinity, who is free from expectations and rules, and who believes that society controls everyone, the protagonist starts to question the consumerism, and as an attempt to fight against it, he and Tyler establish “Fight Club” which later becomes “Project Mayham”. ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813301 Mille/Identity https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813302 One of the themes in Fight Club is identity. The protagonist is living but he do not feel anything. Days goes by but nothing change. Without noticing it he creates a now identity, Tyler Durden. Tyler Durden is the manifestation of the completely free person the protagonist wishes he could be because he is not satisfied with the way his life is. Tyler Durden is completely different from his own personality. The protagonist does not realize that they are one person until the scene where Tyler tells him that they are one person.
By creating Tyler Durden the protagonist find meaning in life. 
]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813302 Morten/Violence https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813303 The movie/book "fight club" plays with the very serious topic violence. The movie/book is filled with reckless violence which the narrator tries to escape through. The violence ia described in a very humorous way to indicate the narrators reckless raltionship to violence. A good example of that is the following quotation: "Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is". The quotation exemplifies the careless relation the narrator has to violence. Any other normal human being would be filled with panic. but in this case he is just wondering about the hygiene of the gun.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813303 Kasper/Dissatisfaction https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813305 The men in Fight Club are dissatified with with society and Tyler calls them the lost generation since there values were no longer relevant. They were caught in recession and had a hard time finding a job. The Jobs that we see Tylers henchmen in are low paying jobs with no future and that is why they are dissatisfied because society looks down upon them. ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813305 Mohamed a/Escapism https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813306 One of the significant themes in the film/book is escapism. Throughout the book we see multiple scenes were the narrator wants to get away from his everyday life and therefore seeks something greater than himself. First he visits these therapy groups, to escape from the insomnia that affects him in a very negative way in virtue of his sleeping problems. The fights clubs also supports hin mentally by getting all of his affections and felling about the world out  in a person.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813306 Sarah F / Consumer Society https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813308 One of the themes in Fight Club is consumer society, as it represents the ideals and values, which Tyler and the members of Project Mayhem attempt to rebel against. Tyler seeks to free mainly the protagonist from a superficial and empty life in which he needlessly shops for consumer goods to somehow feel complete and perfect. Towards the beginning of the movie, Tyler says to the protagonist: “The things you own end up owning you”, in which he means that our dependency on material possessions is in some way confining us, and that its restrictions can even hinder us from moving forward and evolving. ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813308 Nicoline/ Consumer Society https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813311 One of the important themes in the movie is "consumer society". The protagonist of the novel/movie is portrayed as a product of this type of society. While the protagonist seems to be fine with living a life as a part of the consumer society, he revolts against it, after he starts to see Tyler, who represent a person free of the strings and expectations that the protagonist himself live by. Which is where Fight Club comes in. Fight Club is a way of revolting against the consumer society as well as reaching the acceptance that one strives to reach from others by consuming. He thereby feels free of the consumer society, as does the rest of the members of Fight Club. Where Tyler argues, that the things the protagonist own will end up owning him, the feeling of Fight Club is more primitive and sort of "back to basic" where nobody owns anybody.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813311 Frederik/Escapism https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813312 A very important theme throughout fight club is escapism. The narrator in Fight Club tries to escape the reality of his silly life through the movie/book. First he seeks different therapy groups to forget about his problem and his insomnia, and afterwards he escape his problems and reality through the 'Fight Club' he and Tyler Durden starts.
Chapter 2 in the book of Fight Club is a great example of this, and especially this quote shows:"“This is better than real life” (page 22)". It shows how he try to escape his 'real life' through the many therapy groups. ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813312 Emma/Escapism https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813313 An important theme of the movie/novel "Fight Club" is escapism, as the protagonist, Jack, tries to escape from his miserable life. He attends different support groups hoping to forget about his problems in life, and that he can get cured of insomnia which is a problem he struggles with. This is underlined in chapter 2, in the novel "Fight Club", where we gain an insight into the the testicular cancer support group. Attending these support groups, he gets the feeling of being superior to the other participants, and it gives him a great satisfaction. He can forget about his problem and escape from his pitiful life. ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813313 Camilla a / Consumer soiety  camilla_asgaard https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813314 "Fight Club" portrays the theme Consumer society. The protagonist's hallucination Tyler criticizes the current society and describes it as a consumer society in a negative way. He wants to change the culture owing to the fact that he thinks this society controls everyone. He does not think that  people is able to  achieve self-actualization, where they are fully aware of who they are, and what purpose they serves in life. In stead people work for the benefit of others and are very materialistic, which the protagonist is a product of, as he owns a lot of furniture from IKEA. He loves  all the thinks in his apartment too and he even says, that he felt almost competed because of all his things. Tyler criticizes this and says: "Things you own will end up owning you". He thinks we need to be independent and we should seek towards a culture which is more primitive. In the end Tyler wants to explode the P.M building, as it represents the consumer society which he tries to change by creating "Fight Club" and Project Mayhem".  
  
]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813314 Cecilia/Consumer society https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813316 One theme in Fight Club is the consumer society that we live in today. This theme is very clear throughout the movie, and especially when the protagonist is in his apartment we see how almost ‘addicted’ he is to all the material things in life. Here he is talking about all the things he owns and how important it is to him to buy the newest Ikea-furniture. Here we can draw a parallel to American Psycho who does almost the same thing in the beginning. 
Nevertheless this theme is also concerning what the outcome can be for the individual living in the consumer society. Tyler Durden comes here as an example telling the main character, “things you own will end up owning you”, most likely meaning that all the pretty things you own and desire to buy might make you forget the real value of living. 
]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813316 Kirstine/consumer society https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813317 An important theme of the movie (and the novel) is ”consumer society”. The protagonist appears to be a product hereof. For instance, he owns practically every piece of furniture from the IKEA-catalogue. After meeting Tyler, who embodies his rebellious side and represents his id, the protagonist revolts against this consumerism by founding Fight Club. When he fights, a feeling of aggression emerges which entails that he feels alive. Furthermore, he feels free from consumer culture. The primary reason hereto is presumably that he can let go when being involved in fights.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813317 Sigrid/identity https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813318 Identity is a major theme in the novel. The narrator is going through life on cruise control, not feeling anything. He wonders if he can change his personality and become another person with a different life. The quote "If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?" from the narrator is foreshadowing the central revelation: that the narrator and Tyler Durden are the same person. It has something to do with identity because it makes the reader question who we are and how well we know ourselves. Sometimes we might see ourselves like the person we want to be and other times we get the idea of how we really appear to the rest of the world. The narrator creates an other side of himself that he calls Tyler Durden but while he is doing it, he also loses control of his life. His real identity disappears when Tyler is becoming more and more dominant.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813318 Sarah Kirk/Escapism https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813319 The narrator uses the therapy group as a way if forgetting and escaping from all the problems and troubles in his life, which we as readers see in this quotation: "This is better than real life” (page 22)"  He wants to escape from his miserable reality. The narrator enjoys feeling superior towards the others in the group, and the fact that he gets a belief that he is good enough.“This should be my favorite part, being held and crying with Big Bob without hope. This is the only place I ever really relax and give up.” (p.18) 
He feels better about himself, when he watches other peoples uselessness. 
 


]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813319 Maiken/Identity https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813320 Identity is a theme in Fight Club which is emphasized through the protagonist. The protagonist creates an alter-ego who is so different from his own personality that he does not realize they are one person until someone tells him directly. Tyler Durden tells the narrator: “I am everything you want to be”. The protagonist is not satisfied with his life because he is a part of consumer culture, but by creating Tyler he creates a new identity and his life is given a purpose. The protagonist’s identity-crisis is also present in his need for support groups: “Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born. Resurrected.” This is said by the narrator after a meeting at a support group. The narrator cries and after the meeting he feels like a new person as if his old self died at the meeting and he is born again with a new identity.

]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813320 Esther/Loneliness https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813321 Loneliness is one of the major themes of the book/movie. The main character who is also the narrator allows us a sneak peak into his life. Through all the knowledge we gain of him, we get an idea of how he is as a person and how his life is. However, we never hear about any relatives of his. The only friend he has is Marla Singer, but because of his mental illness he lacks the ability to realize that she actually is his friend. This might also be an explanation for his weekly visits at several support groups. During a support group meating for testicular cancer, we are told that he feels lonely: "It's easy to cry wen you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die." The main character is depressed and has a negative outlook on his life. Thus, he is lonely.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813321 Camilla O/Violence https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813322 Violence is a theme that fits the novel and the movie well, because it is a great part of Tyler Durden's personality. The violence in the novel and the movie is a reaction against the consumer society that the narrator lives in. By fighting with Tyler and fighting with the men in Fight Club he reawakens as a new person - a person who finally feels alive. All the violence is therefore used as a path to reach the core of who they are as individuals and furthermore it shows the primitivism that Fight Club is also about. It is an epiphany to the narrator and to the members of Fight Club. This is shown in the scene where Tyler wants the narrator to hit him as hard as he can. First the narrator refuses, but after hitting him, Tyler hits him back. This is the beginning of his epiphany where he realizes that pain is good, and that it is an eye-opener. ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813322 Lærke/Masculinity https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813323 The theme masculinity fits the movie, because Tyler shows a lot of masculinity and wants the protagonist to become more masculine. Fight Club is based on this masculinity where all kind of men are fighting with each other to let out their aggressions and their manhood. The scene where Tyler tells the protagonist to hit him in the face, shows the beginning of Fight Club, and the masculinity the protagonist has been hiding finally appears, when he knock Tyler on the head. He feel great and now wants Tyler to hit him back. ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/bjvnjnikxj88uw98/wish/638813323