Tyler Durden is the personal god of a cog in a big machine

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Fighters of the invisible front have risen against the foundations of modern society, against themselves. The loss of values, the sale of masculinity as an advertising brand, the emergence of a layer of men doing nothing is at the heart of the struggle led by Tyler Durden. It sounds beautiful, pathetic, inspiring, but what is really behind the calls of the narrator's alter ego?

"Overcome Fear". No fear

Who am I? The narrator goes to support groups for people suffering from various diseases. He makes up pseudonyms everywhere and never gives his real name. A faceless insurance agent in a crowd of his own kind is busy chasing empty ideals that cause only one thing - insomnia. Fear is the key moment of the novel, the impulse to move. Communication with Bob, who lost his testicles due to cancer, reveals the castration motif - the disappearance of real men. The threat to lose manhood in one form or another slips into the plot moves: the episode with the police commissioner, the threat of the closure of the fight club. The loss of masculinity becomes the worst thing that can happen to the narrator after he has just found himself.

Fear is called a creative element that reveals inner strength. The narrator putspistol to Raymond's temple and makes him fulfill his dream of becoming a veterinarian.

The path through violence in Chuck Palahniuk's novel is an opportunity to wake up, sober up and feel adrenaline, like after a light punch in the jaw. Fist fighting allows the men of the fight club to give up office work, newspapers, television, and merchandise. The fight reminds everyone that he is still alive. However, it can also lead to death. Lose everything but get to the bottom.

"Cut off the excess." No distractions

Landmarks are broken, people are lost in imposed ideals. Being a man means having an expensive watch and a car. The fight club offers to beat the “nonsense” out of the heads, through pain and fear to get to the true essence and search for oneself.

Tyler Durden appears in the mind of the narrator in the form of an ideal man from the same disgusting advertisement, makes you feel some kind of jealousy and rivalry. They have a lot in common, including life without fathers who have gone missing. In this way, the author draws the members of a society abandoned without reference points into the abyss of philistinism. The chaos created by the narrator and his alter ego is designed to attract attention. Tyler Durden believes it's better to arouse hatred than to be in the shadows. This is how the path to throwing off the shackles of society, changing the modern foundations begins. Project Mayhem is to burn out the manufacturing middle class, shut down the economy, turn back time, and get people to work. Make men manly.

When you lose everything, you gain freedom? Freedom is necessarylook within yourself,” says Tyler Durden. The quotes of this charismatic character pierce the mind like needles, which means that the author is right, hitting the target.

Madness or freedom?

But why did Project Mayhem fail? Perhaps because Tyler loses all control by the end of the novel. Or because the narrator learns about where the natural leader came from. "Every time you fall asleep, I run away and do something wild, something crazy." The two parts of the narrator's brain unite, like water and alkali, in an explosive mixture that destroys life before its planned end. But why strive for what awaits each person at the end of the road? It becomes clear that Tyler is trying to build the same society, but with a different face. Instead of mindless drones working for corporations, drones work for his benefit.