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Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde and Fight Club

8 Pages 2040 Words November 2014

although I couldn't specify the point  (Stevenson 10), which is a difficult description to visualize, since the word deformity is normally used to describe a physical condition. Though Hyde seems to have no physical deformity, Enfield ascribes the "feeling of deformity  (Stevenson 10) to describe a spiritual, internal defect that he senses in Hyde.
In the movie Fight Club, the narrator uses the tools of a fight club and Tyler Durden to enact a life that has danger and excitement. Durden is portrayed as an uncanny figure. He is an unapologetic anarchist, a man without scruples, ethics or decency and perhaps the one individual in the world completely resistant to society's influences. He moves through life confidently without any self-doubt, accurately sizing up everyone around him. He seems to always be the smartest and most charismatic guy in the room, and his journey involves letting "that which does not matter, truly slide  (Fight Club). Taylor forces the narrator to confront and accept the fact that he is just a decaying matter that will eventually die. Tyler burns the narrator's hand saying "without pains, without sacrifice, we would have nothing  (Fight Club). He refuses to neutralize the burn until the narrator gives up until he "knows and not fears that someday he is going to die  (Fight Club). The narrator created the "Fight Club  which may be classified as an uncanny figure as well; the fighting in the novel is not presented as a solution, but as an achievement of a self-realizing. The fighting itself reminds the men that they are alive. As part of Tyler's philosophy, it ...

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