Isaac Britten Mr. Dilworth Destruction of Freedom Chuck Palahniuk is an American novelist who often describes his work as transgressional fiction. In his award winning novel “Fight Club”, Chuck Palahniuk expresses his views on American society. Chuck Palahniuk uses fictional characters to demonstrate his beliefs on order and freedom. Using Tyler Durden and Marla Singer, Palahniuk claims that although overwhelming order can cause unhappiness and depression, being in a fixed routine is necessary because with freedom comes complete chaos. Chuck Palahniuk’s protagonist is a symbol of a normal everyday person in America, and his everyday routine represents order and structure. The other major characters represent distractions that will cause utter destruction and chaos. Chuck Palahniuk uses these characters in a unique way to demonstrate that without order there is chaos, total structure is needed to have a society without destruction. …show more content…
Every day is exactly like the day before, like a fixed lifeless cycle. The fact that his life is a mundane cycle causes him to have insomnia. In order to get over his increasing insomnia, the protagonist joins support groups where people talk about their problems;” My doctor said, if I wanted to see real pain, I should swing by First Eucharist on a Tuesday night. See the brain parasites. See the degenerative bone disease. The organic brain dysfunctions. See the cancer patients getting by” (pg.19). This small change in the protagonist every day cycle would be the kindle to sudden chaos. Now that the ongoing cycle of his everyday life has been altered all structure and order will begin to wane until it has completely been