Tyler And Jack example essay topic

I choose Fight Club as my topic, because I am so familiar with it. Fight Club was the first movie shocked me deeply. Jack, Tyler and Marla are the main characters of Fight Club, a white-collar worker, a soap manufacturer, and a female smoker who makes a living by sale the clothes she steal off from washing machine. Jack is an insomniac, he find the cancer patients' meeting can make him go sleep. Therefore, he is addictive for those different kinds of meeting, same as Marla. One time, when Jack went on errands, he meets with Tyler.

When he came back to home, he found his home was exploded. Therefore, he calls Tyler and lives with him. Things change at that night; they fight with each other and feel unbelievable exhilarating. More and more people join their fighting and make a club called Fight Club. As Fight Club developed, Tyler begins to ask those members to destroy everything in society.

Jack tries to stop him, but finally he found Tyler and he is the same person. He can only keep stopping the plan he made. Axiology Maybe you feel David Fincher (the director) is a ram stam person. In this movie which full of despair, violence and symbolism, he keeps showing his predilection about "black": The black background, the black theme and the black humor. The events of this story are shown in a flashback.

Tyler and Jack have totally different personality. However, Tyler, this crazy man, is the person that Jack wants to be. He creates Tyler. Why Jack want to be Tyler?

Why he change himself from a hylicist to an anti hylicist, from this end to another end? The answer is easy, end is created by end. In the beginning of the movie, people can saw a group of male testicle cancer patients cry together like women. Cry for the apparatus which present their dignity as a man. Jack's join make this meeting symbolic. Castration is not just physiological, but also psychological.

As a man, the castration probably is the most miserable thing. However, as the modern people as Jack, the "castration" of mentality is the most miserable thing. They become the outsiders who fool around the fear and torpor. Jack cannot break this kind of fear and torpor, he can only create a new one to cover the original one, use new axiology to cover the old axiology, us nothing to cover everything. These processes all need a ceremonial, which is violence.

Violence As the society and economy developed, the relationship between people and society is more and more complex. More and more people have a distrust of government. Therefore, violence becomes the main way to show the young generation's discontentment in movie. For the people who join the Fight Club, Fight Club can be used instead of other club such as cancer patients' meeting.

For those people who stay at the same position as Jack, for those people who feel despairing and dejected, fighting is the best way to forget these suffer. They can forget their lonely and find their self-confidence back. As more and more people join Fight Club, Tyler begins to develop physical violence to mental violence. He knows every member's thinking so that he becomes the god in members' mind. The thing he wants to destroy is substance. Substance incarnates the axiology.

Apartments, cars, computers, offices, all of these are the symbols of middle class. Tyler destroys his apartment as the first step. He finally wants to destroy the substance. He wants to create a new world which has no chains. However, this is too crazy, Jack cannot take these all. Finally, Jack shoots himself to kill Tyler.

This is the product of western capitalism country for sure. Therefore, for a girl from China, a communistic country, may not totally understand the political meaning behind this movie. In China, there is a large part of people still did not cast the penury of substance. How can they understand the fetter of substance? However, if we jump out from substance, we still can look at this movie from another side.

That is the fetter of thinking. China is facing to a competitive age. Everyone is fighting for their future. Each parent wants their children to go to a good university, a good company to earn more money. Children's life was limited by their parents. Most of them do not know what they want.

I have this kind of life in last seventeen years. However, I choose to study fine art instead of Engineering in the last year of high school. Because I think art is more closed to my life, I know I need it. I do not need those "good jobs". I want to do something I like. We should think about something that behind the surface.

We are not the children of society. Time is the way to make people to be mature, but thinking is also important. If you never thinking about your life, even you are seventy years old, you may still like a child.

Bibliography

DVD: Fight Club (1999) Website: web.