Fight Club

Main Ideas

• Critique of consumer society and consumption as the primary goal of modern individuals
• Exploration of male identity and the crisis of masculinity in postmodern conditions
• Contrast between individuality and the cookie-cutter life of mass culture
• Search for self-realization and meaningful life experiences through physical pain and violence
• Contemplation of the duality of personality, internal struggle, and split consciousness
• Dystopian view of self-destruction and rejection of social norms in pursuit of freedom and self-discovery