Fight Club

An alter ego is often created to escape from the reality of people’s hardships or issues in life. It can have both positive and negative effects on an individual. They can positively help a person have more confidence in areas of their lives that lack confidence. However, it can negatively impact someone’s life, for the ego can drag them into dangerous situations because of an excess of confidence. When one becomes the alter ego created and loses their own self, it can cause more harm. “Fight Club”, both the novel written by Chuck Palahniuk and film directed by David Fincher, the narrator is a thirty year old man that does not have a name and is later found out to have multiple personality disorder. He creates Tyler who is the opposite, a better

Fight club is a club behind the basement, allowing men to reject society’s labels on power and prove their worth by fighting. Tyler runs fight club as its leader and seeks the pleasure of "setting the people free" from their mundane lives. The narrator finds that because of Tyler, the narrator has found his new freedom, Fight Club. For example, “I felt finally I could get my hands on everything in the world that didn’t work” (Palahniuk, 53). The narrator felt that because of fight club, he finally felt happiness. After spending more time with Tyler, the narrator begins to see life in a different world. The narrator is starting to become more like Tyler. For example, “Basically, I said the same stuff Tyler said” (Palahniuk, 115). In this scene, Tyler is standing up for himself towards his boss in order to show the impacts of men working minimum wage. The narrator does the exact same thing as Tyler at his job, showing that he is starting to find his sense of self through Tyler. Furthermore, the narrator became the stronger person he always strived to be. For example, “Tyler told me later that he’d never seen me destroy something so completely. You can build up a tolerance to fighting, and maybe I needed to move on to something bigger” (Palahniuk, 123). This displays of the narrators strength becoming stronger because of Tyler. Through this, the narrator is detaching away from his old insecurities and weaknesses, finding a sense of self. After several weeks of fight club and seeing the power Tyler had on the narrator and many other men, Tyler starts to create another Fight Club called Project