Fight Club / Philosophy through films question
7. Consider Mary M. Litch’s “Personal Identity” chapter from her book Philosophy through Film. Use any relevant philosophical concepts from this chapter to explain the identity issues of the Narrator/Tyler Durden in the film Fight Club. (Pages 70-75 and 82-88 will be the most relevant.) In your response, explain how the film’s use of the second person is used to demonstrate the main character’s identity issues. You can use the following dialogue passage as an example:
You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
(Note: You are not comparing the main character from Fight Club with Leonard Shelby from Memento in this question. Rather, you should use the general philosophical concepts from this chapter to solely focus on the Narrator/Tyler Durden.)
