'Fight Club' - review.

... The idea of the destruction of the modern day American male due to capitalist and consumerist thought and the vital role that woman have played, is the most dominant and consistent theme running through Chuck Palahnuick's 'Fight Club.' Even from the beginning of the novel, it seems to have an anti-capitalist and anti-feminist tone. The only solution to this epidemic in the eyes of Tyler Durden, the protagonist, is destruction and the return to the primal. Throughout the novel, capitalism is condemned with special attention given to materialism of modern day society. Fight Club illustrates the consumer culture in which the twentieth century male exists in and how it has led to the destruction of the individual and in essence individuality. The main character of the novel, the Narrator, an unnamed "thirty year old boy" who is employed in the recall division of the Federated Motor Corporation is

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