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A 6 page research paper/essay on Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, which is a deeply psychological that delineates the dichotomies and conflicting cultural imperatives that characterize masculinity in the contemporary era. Palahniuk’s narrator is a man who has been emasculated, robbed of his sense of self, by these conflicts. This results in self-loathing in which he turns against his politically correct, and therefore, culturally effeminate, side of his personality and release through violence a manifestation of masculinity that he endeavors to achieve. As this suggests, violence in Fight Club can be viewed as a metaphor for radical self-transformation, as violence directed inwardly shakes the narrator’s consciousness free from limiting, culturally-dictated ideas and eventually allows him to obtain an integrated self. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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been emasculated, robbed of his sense of self, by these conflicts. This results in self-loathing in which he turns against his politically correct, and therefore, culturally effeminate, side of his
personality and release through violence a manifestation of masculinity that he endeavors to achieve. As this suggests, violence in Fight Club can be viewed as a metaphor for radical self-transformation,
as violence directed inwardly shakes the narrators consciousness free from limiting, culturally-dictated ideas and eventually allows him to obtain an integrated self. There has been a great deal written
in recent years concerning the extraordinarily conflicting expectations placed on men in contemporary society. First of all, a cultural ethic has emerged that disassociates men from violence and aggression in
an endeavor to formulate a "more congenial form of masculinity" (Boon 267). Michael Kimmel and Michael Kaufman, in their writing concerning the new mens movement, assert that "Many middle-class, white,
middle-aged, heterosexual men" constitute one of the most "privileged groups in the history of the world" but do not experience themselves as "powerful" (Kimmel and Kaufman 262). In fact, they
feel quite powerless as they try to meet societal demands. These men endeavor to "conquer" a world without frontiers while remaining "physically powerful" and simultaneously eschewing all "violent behavior" (Boon
267). In other words, scholarship points out that men today are faced with a plethora of conflicting societal messages. They are suppose to strong and protect their homes, women,
and society, going to war when called upon to do so. Yet they are to reject all violence and consider themselves less than human for any behavior that could
be labeled as aggressive. It is a situation that cannot be appeased, only sublimated and that is precisely what the narrator does before conjuring Tyler Durden from the recesses of
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