Essay About R Durden And Previous Owner Of Tyler

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r Durden is what some would consider an anarchist. He is distrustful of the status quo, and hides himself from it in a dilapidated building in a warehouse district, with none of the comforts of the materialistic lifestyle that the narrator was so dependent on (and choked by) at the beginning of the film. As part of his anarchist tendencies, Tyler was taken to inserting single frames of pornographic films into family movies while working as a projectionist. Tylers “civil disobediences” become the central idea behind the Fight Club as it transforms from therapy group to guerilla army. The narrator begins to crumble: he refers to himself, inspired by magazines left by the previous owner of Tylers house, as “Jack”: “I am Jacks raging bile-duct”, “I am Jacks cold sweat”; as if the narrators interaction with Tyler is beginning to disassemble any prior idea he had of the individual self. This is exactly Tylers motivation for assembling his army, “Project Mayhem”. For Tyler, modern man has “no purpose or place”. He has “no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives”. Durden goes on to say: “Weve all been raised on television to believe that one day wed all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we wont. And were beginning to realize that. And were very, very pissed off”. Tylers means of indoctrinating his army is classical in its outlook: humiliation into submission, the eradication of the self. “You are not special” Tyler tells his army. “You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying matter as anything else.” Nihilism to the core. Durden brought the idea of nothingness to his army, that they should follow him because they are worthless, and they should let everyone else know that theyre worthless too!