The movie, Fight Club is a highly rated film among critics. It includes a well-known actor like Brad Pitt, unique themes, and plot twists. It includes society’s views in capitalism, consumerism, subjectivity, rules, and conformity. Various scenes within the movies show involve these, and so do the ideas and arguments by modern theorists connect with Fight Club. I will mainly focus on two theorists, Michel Foucault and David Abram. And tell how some of their ideas appear in various scenes in the movie.
In Fight Club the Narrator suffers from insomnia and is stuck in a dead end job. After he fails to get medication from a doctor. He then goes to medical support groups which helps him with his insomnia, until a woman named Marla Singer shows up …show more content…
The panopticon is a structure where an individual is watched and therefore, he must behave in a certain way or he will be punished. Society can be controlled, where everyone is being watched and no one can act how they truly want to. They are in a panopticon, a guardian can view everyone but they cannot view the guardian. Foucault states “Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?” (228). We are expected to dress and act a certain way when we are in one of these places. If we do not follow the rules society has made, then we will be punished. David Abram in Animism and the Alphabet, focuses on the separation between the natural world and mankind. Our language and the alphabet is the reason we are separated from the ways of communicating with nature as we once did like our early ancestors. They both lock words into meaning, and scribbling lines mean something to us on paper; it limits our way of communicating, as the tone of the message or writing may become offensive depending on the individual who reads it. Our ancestors used to read, but in a different …show more content…
One of the main things that happened in Fight Club, was the creation of Fight Club. The narrator and Tyler created their own panopticon. They founded Fight Club, and it became popular but it was not to be spoken about in public. Tyler and the Narrator became the center of it, then soon Tyler vanished and was an invisible power. All the members know their roles, follow the rules, and think that they are being observed. Thus, the Narrator is the center of his panopticon that he created. As the film goes on, Tyler seems to become more powerful with the organization, and he is less seen. “In view of this, Bentham laid down the principle that power should be visible and unverifiable” (Foucault 201). Everyone in Fight Club works for Tyler, and they know if they break any rules, they will be punished. Therefore they are being controlled, and are essentially brainwashed into doing criminal activity. Tyler created Project Mayhem, where their goal was to achieve zero debt for them by destroying the buildings of credit card records and banks. But it got to the point where the members had no idea what Tyler looked like. It turns out the Narrator was Tyler all the time. “He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both
In Fight Club the Narrator suffers from insomnia and is stuck in a dead end job. After he fails to get medication from a doctor. He then goes to medical support groups which helps him with his insomnia, until a woman named Marla Singer shows up …show more content…
The panopticon is a structure where an individual is watched and therefore, he must behave in a certain way or he will be punished. Society can be controlled, where everyone is being watched and no one can act how they truly want to. They are in a panopticon, a guardian can view everyone but they cannot view the guardian. Foucault states “Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?” (228). We are expected to dress and act a certain way when we are in one of these places. If we do not follow the rules society has made, then we will be punished. David Abram in Animism and the Alphabet, focuses on the separation between the natural world and mankind. Our language and the alphabet is the reason we are separated from the ways of communicating with nature as we once did like our early ancestors. They both lock words into meaning, and scribbling lines mean something to us on paper; it limits our way of communicating, as the tone of the message or writing may become offensive depending on the individual who reads it. Our ancestors used to read, but in a different …show more content…
One of the main things that happened in Fight Club, was the creation of Fight Club. The narrator and Tyler created their own panopticon. They founded Fight Club, and it became popular but it was not to be spoken about in public. Tyler and the Narrator became the center of it, then soon Tyler vanished and was an invisible power. All the members know their roles, follow the rules, and think that they are being observed. Thus, the Narrator is the center of his panopticon that he created. As the film goes on, Tyler seems to become more powerful with the organization, and he is less seen. “In view of this, Bentham laid down the principle that power should be visible and unverifiable” (Foucault 201). Everyone in Fight Club works for Tyler, and they know if they break any rules, they will be punished. Therefore they are being controlled, and are essentially brainwashed into doing criminal activity. Tyler created Project Mayhem, where their goal was to achieve zero debt for them by destroying the buildings of credit card records and banks. But it got to the point where the members had no idea what Tyler looked like. It turns out the Narrator was Tyler all the time. “He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both