Fight Club: The moral dilemma



	In this movie, the main character(Why is never given a name... but I’ll just call him the narrator) is 

the generic insomniac working in a cubicle.  He meets a man(Tyler Durden) on a business trip who lets 

him live at his house after his apartment explodes.  While they are together, they create ann 

underground club called a Fight Club that is meant to allow people to vent out anger that they couldn’t 

get out anywhere else.  After a while, this club turns into a group that vandalizes and destroys large 

companies and important business and political leaders.  The narrator has a problem with this, and 

begins to try to stop their plans to destroy all the large credit card companies in the city.  In the end, 

when he realizes that the person who he imagined was Tyler Durden was really just a split personality 

in his mind, he has to make a choice to stop himself or allow more destruction to occur.


	In this movie, the narrator is caught between two extremes. The corporate world of corruption and 

greed and the world of destruction and vigilante justice.  He tries to stay in the middle of these two 

extremes and do what is morally correct.  When he tries to stop the destruction form getting out of 

hand, he often ends up finding enemies at both sides and, in the end, has no one by his side.  At the 

end of the book, he understands that the only way of stopping himself and saving people that could 

possibly get injured, he must sacrifice himself and take Tyler with him.


	This movie shows some major problems of being caught between both sides of a dilemma.  It 

shows that, since the moral truth is often not a simple battle between good and bad, those searching 

for the truth can often get caught by a crossfire from both sides and have very difficult choices to 

make.  In the end, it is this crossfire that eventually leads to his death, but he is able to save other 

people in the process of this.  Although it really didn’t provide me with tons of moral answers, it helped 

to bring to light many questions.  It allowed me to think about where the moral might be in many of 

life’s choices.  It also brought me to wonder how much I would be willing to risk for what I believed was 

morally right.