Discuss All the main characters in Fight Club are linked in a triangular relationship. The narrator wants Tyler; Tyler wants Marla, and Marla wants the narrator. In your essay discuss what each of these characters wants or needs from the other character(s). Your essay should also discuss the differences between their needs and/or desires [a compare and contrast essay].
Introduction:
Introduction of Fight Club, author, connect with Freuds article. Brief summary, talk a little bit about the characters, and lead to the thesis.
Thesis: The narrator desires an internal connection with Tyler as an ideal figure of masculinity, meanwhile Marla also wants the same thing with the narrator and Tyler wants to destroy consumerism.
The Narrator:
Topic sentence: The narrator desires an internal connection with Tyler as an ideal figure of masculinity
Evidence:
Oh, this is bullshit. This is a dream. Tyler is a projection. Hes a dissociative personality disorder. A psychogenic fugue state. Tyler Durden is my hallucination. (Palahniuk 168).
I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerves. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free and I am not (Palahniuk 174).
And in obedience to the same need for projection, the proposition is transformed into: I observe that she loves me. ‘I do not love him-I love her, because SHE LOVES ME (Freud 63).
Tyler:
Topic sentence: Tyler wants to dissolve societal programming, attack consumerism, and upset the established social order.
Evidence:
I know why Tyler had occurred. Tyler loved Marla.And if Tyler loves Marla.I love Marla (Palahniuk 198-199).
An internal perception is suppressed, and, instead, its content; after undergoing a certain kind of distortion, enters consciousness in the form of an external perception (Freud 66).
if you loose your nerve before you hit the bottom youll never really succeed Its only after you lost everything that youre free to do anything (Palahniuk 70).
Marla:
Topic sentence: Marla also wants a emotional connection with the narrator.
Evidence:
Marla wanted to save the narrator from accidentally killing himself and confessed that she had feelings for him.Its not love or anything, Marla shouts, but I think I like you, too….Marla likes Tyler. No I like you, Marla shouts. I know the difference. (205)
