Like in the movie Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the book Fight
Club by Chuck Palaniuk has a lot of Existentialistic qualities. Freidrick Nietzsche discusses the Ubermensch,
or the Overman. This is the ultimate
man. He lives the best. Tyler Durden in Fight Club does everything that the narrator cannot. He is stronger, more attractive and
smarter. He thinks of the idea to start
Fight Club, he figures out how to make explosives and he runs Project
Mayhem. The narrator also faces the
question of whether to live as himself or to live as Tyler. Tyler is successful and content, but Tyler is
immoral. The narrator has to decide who
to be, miserable or immoral. This
touches on Albert Camus’ idea of the absurd man. The absurd man does not live by rules and has
no regard for ethics. He does whatever
he wants and does not weigh consequences.
Tyler Durden is the absurd man.
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