Relation of Tyler and the narrator the world and to man

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2009)

Fight Club is a movie that claims that the norms and goals of Americans are not meaningful; a nihilist's life of revolution does have significance, and that everyone has some Tyler Durden in them. The narrator and main character that goes nameless throughout the movie in a way represents all of mankind. He has the typical job, is obsessed with the material and is nothing more than a thing to the world. The Narrator is someone not fulfilled with life; making is way in and out of AA and other support groups in order to maintain himself emotionally. His counterpart and associate is Tyler Durden. Tyler represents something that is greater than man, an unreal ideality that lives on behalf and threw the Narrator. Tyler is a character that inspires man to be more than just man. There is a relation between Tyler Durden and man, and the role of Tyler in the world.
What Tyler Durden has is ability and power. For example, there are many fights throughout Fight Club and the fight that Tyler Loses, he actually wins. Tyler Durden stands on a plane with Jesus and Nietzsche's Overman, a crossbred between God and man. What is inspirational about Tyler is that he and the narrator are the same person. The narrator, who is a man, crosses a barrier and becomes something greater than man. Tyler is not human; he is more an idea, and a symbol of revolution. The Narrator's relation to Tyler is a role of assistance. Tyler inspires the Narrator, gives him a place to live, mentors him and together they start a revolution. The two characters are more productive together than they are separately, though they are dependent on the other. The Narrator suffers from insomnia and later the audience realizes that he suffers from a split personality disorder. Through his mental disabilities the narrator turns himself into Tyler. The narrator is able to break away from the boredom of everyday life by being Tyler Durden. The idea of a club where people fight without protection and at their own discretion, where the first two rules standout as fight club being a club of secrecy, becomes a form of therapy for men, then a way of life for society. The narrator realizes the unnecessary of materials, and then realizes that work, water and other basic needs are not needed. The narrator frees himself from the security that food, shelter and water provide. Where at one time he was consumed by the material, trying to fill his apartment with the perfect Liz Clayborn piece that would capture the perfect mood for his kitchen, the narrator realizes the meaninglessness of projects that only seem to serve a purpose of life. The blessing for the narrator comes when his apartment gets blown up and everything in it destroyed. The narrator falls to apathy, but from his apathy comes freedom. He doesn't care if his teeth fall out or if he has to wear the same clothes to work every day. His actions toward a fight club have purpose and meaning, because what the fight club eventually does is starts a revolution. Toward the end of the movie the audience as well as the narrator discovers that the narrator is Tyler Durden. Through this realization the narrator becomes aware that Tyler, though his mentor was destructive, and had to be gotten rid of. In the end who ends up prevailing? Though the narrator ends up living, he causes himself to shoot himself, in order for Tyler to perish. Furthermore, Tyler's legacy lives on, Tyler never physically existed, and if he was never physically he can be disposed of physically. The narrator attempts to get rid of Tyler in an ideal way, by physically attacking himself. Though he does disappear, again, he never existed. At the end of the film, the credit card companies are destroyed and the beginning of the end comes to a close as the chaos prepares to unfold on the earth. These actions, these doings, are because of Tyler Durden. The idea of him lives out physically through the destruction of earth. The effects of Tyler become more real than Tyler. At the same time the narrator overcomes the superman, Tyler. Showing that it is capable for man to not only surpass mankind, but at the same time to overcome himself. In conclusion, Fight Club deals with the desire of man's quest for power to be fulfilled to the point where revolution can be achieved. That man is not limited to living a repeated, boring life of meaninglessness. Tyler Durden Stands as one of the best characters to ever be on cinema. Tyler was able to achieve greatness with ease, leaving the question of why he even waited as long as he did to change the world.