The Fight Club

Two characters that appear to be the same person are portrayed in the Palahniuks Fight Club. This same idea is used as the base of the Stevensons The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Lets take a closer look at the differences between the book and the film.

Firstly, in the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the house is used as a powerful prop, by which it is possible for Dr. Jekyll to use, even when he is in the form of Mr. Hyde. The front of the house mirrors an elite, upper class, and respectable home. However, the rest of the house is quite the opposite due to the darkness Mr. Hyde represents as he lives there too. The novel states that the discolored wall on the upper; and bore in every feature the marks of prolonged and so did negligence. Consequently, the back door could be used by Mr. Hyde, with very few suspecting Mr. Hyde of having any connection to Dr. Jekyll. The house supports Dr. Jekyll's secret of being Mr. Hyde. The house symbolizes the d ouble personality of its owner. Therefore Dr. Jekyll and his house have parallel characteristics. Yet, in the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the one house is shared by the protagonist's dual state whereas in Fight Club, there is an element of change that is related to the resident.

On the other hand, before the narrator (Jack) meets Tyler, he lives alone in an apartment. Palahniuk directly connects the two when Jack says, I loved that condo. I loved every stick of furniture. That was my whole life. Everything, the lamps, the chairs, the rugs were me Jack feels that instead of being a reflection of him, the apartment is what he is.

Jack's hobby is finding and furnishing his apartment with what he considers to be the best furniture and accessories; yet he finds it fruitless. He describes himself as being owned by his possessions, a slave to my nesting instinct. The descriptions of the apartment and the expensive furnishings Jack is addicted to buying show that he leads a lonely and unsatisfactory life. Jack's life lacks any real substance or meaning, despite the expensive, clever things he owns.

It is Jack's unconscious dissatisfaction with this life that gives him a reason to invent and eventually bring Tyler to life. Jack, while returning from a business trip finds out that something has exploded in his apartment, destroying all of his possessions besides the suitcase he had with him. Palahniuk writes, The floor-to-ceiling windows in their aluminium frames went out ... Everything blasting out from the fifteenth floor in a sort of solar flare. Jack then calls Tyler, and asks for a place to stay. It is later revealed that Jack himself is acting as Tyler and had planned the explosion.

Palahniuk uses the explosion as a plot device to have Jack move in with Tyler, but he also attaches symbolic meaning to the destroyed condo. The act of destroying his own property is Jack's first step towards becoming Tyler, and just as it initially was a mirror of the narrator before he met Tyler, the apartment is now an image of the post-Tyler Jack. Jack says, Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete. By destroying the symbol of the narrator's unfulfilling life, Tyler has begun to do just that.

Tyler's house, into which Jack moves, is decadent yet in ruins. It has three stories, it leaks in the rain and the front door has been kicked in. It serves as a sharp contrast to Jack's highly valued possessions, reflecting the initial differences between himself and Tyler who sees possessions as needless things. The house is also a product of neglect, which is how Tyler views himself: We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

However, the run down house undergoes a change when Jack loses control of Tyler and their relationship ends. Both the changes in the house and in Tyler begin with the creation of Project Mayhem, an extension of Fight Club in which the members, instead of simply fighting each other, perform criminal, destructive pranks around the city. Tyler creates Project Mayhem alone, without explaining it to Jack; at this point he truly gains a life of his own.

Tyler vanishes for a period of time, displaying independency from Jack that hadn't been present before. He even has the foresight to establish a Project Mayhem rule that prevents Jack from learning his location: The first rule about Project Mayhem . . . is you don't ask questions about Project Mayhem. Tyler has taught the other project members the rule so well; they only repeat it to Jack when he asks about Tyler.

Tyler's new independency is paralleled in the changes that happen in the house. Jack's discovery of Project Mayhem occurs when he finds Tyler in the house's basement, preparing to install enough bunk beds for the coming recruits. As Project Mayhem's new members move in and fill the bunks, the house b ecomes more and more self-sufficient. The first floor is converted into a kitchen where one team of members cook meals for everyone and others make and package the soap Tyler sells to finance the project. The house's yard is dug up and turned into a garden where other members grow plants to use in the soap making process.

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