Anger In Fight Club

1840 Words4 Pages

The Impact of Anger on Contemporary Man in Fight Club (1996) “I am Joe's Blood-Boiling Rage “ (96). Anger is one of the seven deadly sins which is defined by Christopher Marlowe in Doctor Faustus as, “I am Wrath. I had neither father nor mother. I leapt out of a lion’s mouth when I was scarce an hour old, and ever since have run up and down the world with this case of rapiers, wounding myself when I could get none to fight withal. I was born in hell, and look to it, for some of you shall be my father” (Doctor Faustus 2. 1). According to Kirby Deater and Deckard in their article “Anger”, anger is a complex psychological behaviour which has its own structure. Some researchers believe in that anger is an overwhelming emotion that has effects on man's personality, as well as it indicates the different perspective by which people …show more content…

A club where men will gather and engage in consensual fights and begin to build their own self-confidence "while shedding their fear of ... everything". The members in the experiment start to form a community where they could abandon their names, jobs, and lives embracing their real identity. Instead of the club, Church in the past used to be a safe place where people explore their real identity by expressing their fears, thoughts and sins. Now, the church becomes a place where people brag about their jobs, wearing their fanciest clothes rather than seeking salvation and peace of mind. In Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club (1996) , the narrator creates unconsciously an alter personality as a consequence of self-hatred, depression, frustration, low self-esteem, and anger, Palahniuk compares and contrasts the protagonist both characters, the nameless narrator and Tyler, to illustrate the conflict between good and evil inside the human

More about Anger In Fight Club

Open Document