후기를 통해 다시 읽어보는 『파이트 클럽』
Re-reading Fight Club through Afterword
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Fight Club is known as cult movie in which Brad Pete starred. However, the movie was based on the novel written by Chuck Palahniuk. Because of a lot of misunderstanding about Fight Club, Palahniuk added afterword to his 1996 novel in 2005. He complains that no one called Fight Club a romance. He says that this novel was written for men . He says in the afterword that what he tried to write in Fight Club was The Great Gatsby updated a little and ancient romance. Therefore, this essay aims to examine and illuminate the influence of romance and intention of writer. Fight Club can be seen as a quest of medieval romance to prove knight's identity and to realize his ideal. Tyler Durden, alter ego of the narrator, leads narrator to quest his own identity. Undergoing this process, narrator is awaken to the absence of father and evil influence of commodity culture. He feels alive after fighting with other person at Fight Club. He experiences a bottom and fear of death. These experiences are authentic and intensive as the medieval impulses in American literature as Kim Moreland said. These allow narrator to know that commodity culture and depersonalized society are to be destroyed. Narrator realizes that we should destroy ourselves and civilization to make something better out of ourselves.
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Fight Club is known as cult movie in which Brad Pete starred. However, the movie was based on the novel written by Chuck Palahniuk. Because of a lot of misunderstanding about Fight Club, Palahniuk added afterword to his 1996 novel in 2005. He complains that no one called Fight Club a romance. He says that this novel was written for men . He says in the afterword that what he tried to write in Fight Club was The Great Gatsby updated a little and ancient romance. Therefore, this essay aims to examine and illuminate the influence of romance and intention of writer. Fight Club can be seen as a quest of medieval romance to prove knight's identity and to realize his ideal. Tyler Durden, alter ego of the narrator, leads narrator to quest his own identity. Undergoing this process, narrator is awaken to the absence of father and evil influence of commodity culture. He feels alive after fighting with other person at Fight Club. He experiences a bottom and fear of death. These experiences are authentic and intensive as the medieval impulses in American literature as Kim Moreland said. These allow narrator to know that commodity culture and depersonalized society are to be destroyed. Narrator realizes that we should destroy ourselves and civilization to make something better out of ourselves.
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