Gothic Elements in Fight Club - Intro

The plot of the story of Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (both the book and the movie) are based on conflicts with the working classes and upper classes of society. Though it is never explicitly stated in the book, the narrator's "other personality" is plotting throughout the whole story to destroy the buildings of all of the credit card companies in the country, "sticking it to the man" in any way he can in the process.

This blog will be providing my evidence for this idea for both the book and the movie, as well as evidence of isolation within the plot, devolution of the main character ("Jack"), and antiquated spaces.

Works Cited

Fight Club. Dir. David Fincher. Perf. Brad Pitt, Edward Norton. Fox 200, 1999. DVD.

Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996. Print.