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Rhetorical Analysis Tyler Durden

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Fahed Alhajri
Professor Alvarez
English 113B
Dec 8, 2015 Rhetoric of Tyler Durden
Written by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club is a novel that was released in 1996. The story follows the experiences of a person struggling with insomnia and how he takes drastic steps to regain normalcy in his life. As the doctor suggests, he is indeed not suffering from insomnia but from fatigue, caused by the job he holds that gives him frequently jet lag as he is required to travel to different countries regularly. On a deeper level, this book is about post-modern consumer society and lack of masculine identity that is prevalent among grey collar workers (Lindgren). A film, going …show more content…
Through these conflicting imaginary characters, Jack experiences extremes of emotions and ideologies that help him reshape his word and gain a broader perspective on the inherent meaning of life or lack thereof. The novel contains countless dialogues delivered by the lead character, Tyler Durden, which help us to understand and reflect upon our place in society and goals of life, at …show more content…
May I never be content. May I never be perfect” (Palahniuk). This dialogue has been said by Jack himself and not Tyler Durden, in a moment of self reflection where he pleads his alter ego this deliver him to his destiny and bring him out of his misery, once and for all. Here, the words like "complete", "content", "perfect", has been used in a negative light to bring out the thirst for a man's efforts at gaining perfection. But what does completeness and perfection achieve? It is just a way to settle for mediocrity as the sole essence of life lies in educating oneself and gaining wisdom till the

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