After fooling the group into believing he is also a victim, he becomes addicted to all kinds of support groups when he realises it cures his insomnia temporarily. During the course of the story the narrator meets a man named Tyler Durden and moves in with him when his apartment is blown up in a gas explosion. The narrator stops going to the support meetings and the two men start ‘fight club’, where men come to fight each other and escape their normal lives. Tyler quickly becomes the leader of fight club and turns it into an anti-consumerist, anti-corporate terrorist organisation known as ‘Project Mayhem’. My favourite quote from the novel deals with the running theme of consumerism: “It’s only after you’ve lost everything,” Tyler says, “that you’re free to do anything.”[1] Normally the term ‘losing everything’ would obviously carry with it negative connotations but Tyler means that when a person rids themselves of all their material possessions it is only then that they are truly free.
As such, it could be seen that it is Hindley’s treatment of Heathcliff that leads to his violent nature, and his later remark that he would like to ‘paint the house front with Hindley’s blood.’ Therefore, can we say that Heathcliff’s violence is just a product of his environment and the violence he is subjected to? This idea is one that is present throughout the novel, for example when Mr Lockwood enters the Heights for the first time, even though he is a gentle person described by Bronte as a creature of ‘tranquillity’, he indulges in violence when the dogs attack him, saying that he
It was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Men turned to alcohol and violence from migration and new and past trauma such as War. These issues typically divided families. This story is repeated from family after family in the sense that anything was to be done in order to survive and have a new, good life.
In Liam O’Flaherty’s “The Sniper”, we are exposed to the unfortunate brutality that Civil war inflicts on those involved. It’s ability to pit brothers against each other is a tragic realization that the protagonist in the story must come to realize. The author’s effective use of setting and characterization clearly provides a poignant insight to war that reveals it’s ferocious tragedy. O’Flaherty continually uses setting to create tension within the reader and give a more realistic approach to the nature of war. His short, choppy sentences cause a feeling of hurry, much like the character would have been facing in the story.
In the novel, as well as the film, Fight Club was no longer enough for the narrator, or Jack in the movie; thus the creation of Project Mayhem. The narrator explains that “the goal [of Project Mayhem] was to teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history,” (Palahniuk 122). Project Mayhem encouraged the men involved, or the “space monkeys,” to cause destruction to their communities to set themselves free of society; that only they themselves can determine who they are and what makes them happy. In Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen’s article entitled, “Enjoy You Fight! – “Fight Club” as a Symptom of the Network Society,” they state that Fight Club and Project Mayhem “functions as a line of flight from the stratified society,” (350).
“Violence” in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre ‘Violence: Behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something’. This definition of violence is quite classical. Whenever you would ask someone about violence, he would probably give you this answer or something similar but the notion of violence is something huge. This notion is vast and does not implies only physical pain; morality, society, otherness looks… Violence can be everywhere and in many ways. The vast subject that violence is always had a great place in literature: from Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey passing through romance of chivalry during Middle Age to the most recent crime novel, violence is a major topic and all its aspect is developed.
He tried to set Amir straight for socializing with Hassan, who is Amir's 'brother' and his best friend. Hassan rescues Amir and intimidates Assef to shoot with his slingshot. Later on in the novel, Assef seeks revenge for Hassan's brave and daring move. This starts a long chain of violent events. A side-way of violence is revenge, a theme that also has an effect on how the story progresses.
WHY NATIONS GO TO WAR There are often people who ask the big question, “Why do nations feel the need to go to war?” One of the main reasons for this question comes from the loss of life that comes with it. However, on an opinionated theory I have concluded that a larger portion of why a nation decides to go to war would be to expand their territory. They could even be trying to gain freedom for their nation. Many times nations use scarcity of resources in their own country to justify warring with another nation for theirs. Regardless, the nations that begin a war will always be able to provide some reason for the fighting.
The unproven theory stated by Sigmund Freud that human is innate violent has become an excuse for wars, crimes and injustice in the world. Sigmund Freud and the animal researcher Konrad Lorenz stated that “We have within us, naturally and spontaneous reservoir of aggressive energy, this force, which builds by itself, must be periodically drained off- by participating in competitive sports" (kohn ). Are not we pushing ourselves to be violent in our intent of "drain off our energy" by practicing competitive sports "aggressive sports" such as football or boxing where physical force is the primary ingredient for winning the game? Scientifics, Psychologists, Anthropologist and Sociologist have taken the responsibility to disprove Sigmund Freud’s theory. Freud believed that aggression in humans is a result of a very strong death wish.
Tomorrow When the War Began Essay Topic of the essay: T.W.T.W.B shows that there is a time and place for fighting back, violence/killing In the text, Tomorrow When The War Began we see many incidents of fighting and violence in the act of self-defense. Today most people in society believe the thought of killing someone is unacceptable. There is a distant difference to using violence in our normal world and to killing someone in War. Ellie and her friends are put into many situations that involve fighting back and violence and there characters show that there is a time for using violence in need. They are to fight a battle not only against their enemy but to survive amongst each other, this causes the group to defend themselves and act upon their enemy using violence.