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Fight Club, a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk, portrays the extremes of the passive and aggressive behaviors of the human mind. The philosophies and ideas that Fight Club imposes about life are those that can seem true to some, and entirely insane to others. The story of Fight Club is about one man, Jack, who is a schizophrenic with a second personality, Tyler Durden. Jack is the ordinary man, but Tyler Durden is everything that Jack wishes he could be. The irony all of this is that they are physically the same man, proving that what Jack wants to be, is feasible through his own physical being. The whole meaning behind Fight Club relies on Jack’s schizophrenia and actions that he takes to ‘make himself better.’ The technique used to tell the story leads the reader to believe that these two characters are different, physically and mentally until the actual scheme reveals itself. Life can be defined as, “The sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The novel Fight Club depicts exactly what the definition intends. The main theme throughout the entire novel revolves around how all of life's problems can be solved. The idea sugge