Fight Club as a postmodern work of fiction. Use the article about postmodernism and apply the different concepts to the movie/novel by mariannefræer https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7 en-us 2017-04-21 07:25:32 UTC 2025-12-12 03:51:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Andreas, Mathias og Oliver https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167449859 "Showing, not telling":
- The auther does not help us to understand the characters.

The subject is decentered, destructured and dehumanized:
- "I know this, because Tyler knows this".
- Throughout the story.

The story is fragmented and discontinuos:
- Each chapter begins in a new place. Chapter one to two: Tyler is pointing a gun at the narrator, and in chapter two Bob is grapsing the narrator in his arms.

The language is transparent:
- Tyler says, "Don't call this love." Long story short, now Marla is out to ruin another part of my life. Ever since college, i make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

The story neglects the truth to create a caos and destruct grand-narratives, because of the contemporary sorroundings:
- Throughout the story we think that Tyler is a different person. However, we find out, that the one creating chaos is actually himself. Therefore, he neglecks the truth.]]> 2017-04-21 09:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167449859 Sarah, Rasmus, Henrik, Søren https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167449920 The connection between the article and Fight club could be as following: the protagonist in the novel is connected to modernism, where you realize you have lost values and greeve the loss of values in your life. In postmodernism you still greeve the loss of values but you also accept it. This could be reflected in the protagonist at first where you just go on and on and on with his ordinary life.

In postmodernism you reject the grand narratives (the great histories of ourselves). This is reflected in Jack who choose to go against the consumer society.
In the beninning Jack is consumed by consumerism. However he realizes that this way of life - this grand narrative - doesn't bring him any meaning in his life. 

Furthermore "showing not telling" is used a lot in Fight Club, where we get to learn the charaters and the situation through this technique. 

Furthermore the novel is filled with fragmentation through the structure of the novel, but also the main characters fragmentation into both Jack and Tyler. Modernism view the fragmentation of human subjektivity as a tragedy. 


]]> 2017-04-21 09:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167449920 Laura, Mille & Lotte https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167449941 In Fight Club there are several identities which is fitting for the postmodernism literature, because of the accept of the coreless individuals. Now the individual has the opportunities of choosing a new identity depending on the situation they find themselves in. This is illustrated in the use of different name tags the protagonist uses in the support groups, where he creates multiple identities, and furthermore they do not have any meaning to him. We also see it in the space monkeys due to the fact, that they do not have a name before they die. This underlines that one is not bound to a core, but can be whoever they want. They can release themselves from the core. ]]> 2017-04-21 09:59:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167449941 JEns, PAw, MAlthe malt2656 https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167449948 In postmodernism there often is a loss of values. We see this the fightclub where the protoganist is at a point where he has no values left.
 
Randomness, discovery and chaos in the art - Project Mayhem is a perfect example of this. The subjects you were concerned about before does not matter anymore.
Showing not telling. 


]]> 2017-04-21 10:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167449948 Mikkel, Frederik og Martin! https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167450008 One of the main attributes and characteristics behind poster-modernism, is the fact that it embraces chaos and celebrates that fact that there is no definite meaning or purpose to life, in which we also see illustrated in "Fight Club" through Jack and Tyler.
This exact quote incapsules the very essence of the disjunction from modernism to post-modernism: "God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”]]> 2017-04-21 10:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167450008 https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167450922 Reflectivity and self-conscience - fragmented view of humans objectivity
- The postmodernism i focussing on how the modern life is here and now, in a more optimistic way. Also, the PM is focussing on the many possibilities in life. The individuel can create it's own identity, meaning and reality.]]> 2017-04-21 10:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167450922 Kristian, Alexander og Frida https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167451081 A fundamental part of postmodernism is the acceptance of chaos as a basic life condition that is always present, and the individual should accept. This is seen in Fight Club with the Project Mayhem which has the purpose of reaching “ground zero” by creating chaos in the world. Postmodernism also revolves around meaninglessness, which is seen in Tyler’s “you are not a unique snowflake”-philosophy. 

Fight Club offers an alternative way of life contrasting to the consumer and materialistic society, which is a central theme in postmodern works.

Postmodernism focuses on mini-narratives, that revolve around the individual truth, rather than the grand narratives, which revolve around a universal truth. This can be seen in Fight Club which can be seen in Tyler, who shows schizophrenic tendencies, which does not apply to the majority of the population.

]]> 2017-04-21 10:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167451081 Abdi og Jacob https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167451142 Postmodernism reflects a postmodern society’s insecurities about identity. This is seen in the movie Fight Club, where Jack has an enormous identity crisis, which is underlined in his split personality. The movie also portraits the meaninglessness in life and accepting the chaos they live, which we also see in the movie with consumer society being a main theme. The movie also portraits the aspect of break up of those traditional tendencies as family. This is seen in Jack’s lack of masculinity due to a missing father figure. Another characteristic of postmodernism is the audience constructing their own meanings from a range of cultural and media artefacts. We see this, when Jack buys different furniture he doesn’t need, but there is a consensus that it’s the right thing to do.]]> 2017-04-21 10:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/167451142 https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/339715324 2019-03-10 18:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/339715324 https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/1566105937 2021-05-27 17:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jo25/pkbnu0aguse7/wish/1566105937