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    This document is an essay analyzing the 1999 film Fight Club and how it relates to capitalism. It summarizes the film's plot, where the main character Jack defines himself through material possessions at first. After losing his apartment, Jack is stripped of these possessions and forced to see beyond materialism. By the end of the film, Jack accepts the downfall of his capitalist ideals and learns to define himself outside of material goods and wealth. The essay uses the film to show how capitalism encourages superficial definitions of self and worth through possessions, and how rejecting this allows for a purer view of life.

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    This document is an essay analyzing the 1999 film Fight Club and how it relates to capitalism. It summarizes the film's plot, where the main character Jack defines himself through material possessions at first. After losing his apartment, Jack is stripped of these possessions and forced to see beyond materialism. By the end of the film, Jack accepts the downfall of his capitalist ideals and learns to define himself outside of material goods and wealth. The essay uses the film to show how capitalism encourages superficial definitions of self and worth through possessions, and how rejecting this allows for a purer view of life.

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    Harrison Ganem

    Ms. Carney

    Composition 122

    Fight Club Essay

    12/2/2010

    Capitalism

    Fight Club has been an American classic since its debut, and has inspired many a young

    mind to plumb the depths of its storyline. The story revolves around how individuals define

    themselves based on their material possessions. This idea relates to capitalism in the sense that

    materialism is a large side effect of a capitalistic system. Throughout the movie one follows

    Jack’s evolution from a person who subscribes to the idea of materialism to one who defines

    himself by revolting against the capitalistic machine.

    We first see Jack as a being whose only individuality is expressed through what he

    owns. His entire life is defined by possessions such as furniture and clothing, as referenced in

    the movie when he reads a list of the items in his apartment. This attachment is the foundation

    of every capitalistic society, as iterated in the Communist Manifesto, “ The communist revolution

    is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves

    the most radical rupture with traditional ideas." . Possessions are not the only thing we let define us.
    In the movie Jack works diligently to please his boss every at a job he despises. He does because

    he feels he needs to make money. This is an example of Individuals relying on their jobs and

    financial standings to quantify there worth to society. Referring to the Pavlovian theory of

    conditioning were one associates a non-conditioned response with a conditioned response

    (Pavlov). Such as the relation between money and our primary needs to survive. Examples of

    Primary needs are food, water, shelter, and, sexual reproduction.

    Later in the movie after Jack’s apartment is lost to what was proclaimed as a gas leak.

    He moves into a dilapidated house that can only provide the bare necessities for living. The

    move forces Jack to give up all of the material possessions that defined him during his prior

    stage of life. This scenario depicts the notion that in life when an individual is stripped of

    everything he or she values, he or she is forced to look at the world in an entirely new light.

    Thus Jack is forced to see the folly of his love for the materialistic. An example of this would be

    when he returns to work ignoring his appearance, exposing his wounds, and antagonizing his

    boss. As He begins to see the world in a more primal manner his mentality switches from a man

    who idolizes other based on their monetary worth to that of a man who evaluates based on

    physical stature.

    By the end of the movie Jack has overcome a temporary revolt against the cascading

    decline of capitalism in his life. He has learned to accept that which he once feared; the

    complete and utter down fall of his capitalistic ideals. As he watches the building fall in the last

    scene of the movie, the song “Where is my mind” by the Pixes is used by the director to
    symbolize how Jack has come to terms witch the notion that everything is going to be fine. He

    has learned to live without the crutch of capitalism.

    In summation Jack has run the full gambit from a large believer of capitalistic ideals to

    its most vehement opposition. From the movies onset he was enamored with materialistic

    culture until a series of unfortunate events catapulted him into a situation that forced him to

    shun them. Through this baptism by fire he came to realize the true purity of life itself.

    Works Cited

    Pavlov, Ivan. "Ivan Pavlov." Ivan Pavlov. N.p., April 14 2003. Web. 5 Dec 2010.

    <http://www.ivanpavlov.com/>.

    "The Communist Manifesto." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 07 Dec.

    2010 <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/129206/The-Communist-Manifesto>.

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