“All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.” (Burke 402).

Here, revered statesman Edmund Burke was trying to say that a person’s character is destroyed because of their inclination to behave in a certain way....

Color is everywhere; it can stimulate our senses, and it is an element of non-verbal communication. In the 1999 movie Fight Club, the use of the primary color palette plays a role beyond aesthetic purposes, present in the elements of mise-en-scene...

First rule of Fight Club: "You do not talk about Fight Club. Second rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club" (Fight Club, 1999). David Fincher has directed many brilliant movies in his career, including Seven, Fight Club, and most...

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club is an anarchic, pessimistic novel that portrays the need for identity in life and Palahniuk explains, through the narrator’s personality disorder, that the desire for meaning is the sole internal motivation of...

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club is an unprecedented novel which is particularly concerned with the problem of forging secure identities in the face of modern challenges: consumerism, capitalism, emasculating white-collar work, an absence of fathers,...

The theory of “othering” or alterity states that people attempt to define themselves not by who or what they are, but by who and what they are not. Defining oneself by means of othering, however, can be problematic as, by definition, doing so...

In Robert Bly’s book about exploring what it means to be male, Iron John, he wrote that modern men are “not interested in harming the earth or starting wars. There’s a gentle attitude toward life in their whole being and style of living. But many...

Societal notions tend to allude that an individual is either one thing or the other and not both; however, this contradicts our very basic human nature, as we possess and can find duality within ourselves. Human nature is imbued with conflict and...

In order to discuss the importance of context and changes made to the story in accordance to that context, I would like to take David Fincher’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” as the case study...

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light”.

The opening stanza to Dylan Thomas’ poem echoes its theme of aging, asserting the necessity of the elderly to live...

Composers creatively explore the intangible nature of the American identity reflecting the flawed values of American exceptionalism and capitalism. Tennessee Williams’ symbolist play, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947, inspects the destabilisation of...

Amy and Nick Dunne in the film Gone Girl (2014) are first seen as a perfect match, where their easygoing, yet still romantic, love seems too good to be true. The plot escalates quickly to a suspenseful sequence of events where Amy flees her home...

Marriage is an institution build on trust and commitment between two parties; in the same vein, media is an establishment that is ethically meant to convey truth hence consumed with trust. Henceforth these two institutions are susceptible to being...