Why did Tyler Durden in Fight club want to get his testicles cut?
Tyler Durden had instructed his followers to cut his balls if he tries to tell the police about their plan. He knew that his other self will try to inform the police. This means that he didn't mind dying.
On the other hand, he got scared when the narrator tried to shoot himself and thereby kill Tyler. Why this contradiction?
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Two points. The first is that "cutting off your balls" is a standing order, for any threat, not just Tyler/Jack.
You know the drill. You said if anyone ever tries to interfere with Project Mayhem, even you, we got to get his balls.
They do this to a police commissioner earlier in the movie as well.
The second is that Tyler is an expert at reading people. He knows how people will react, what their limit is. He manipulates, breaks down and brainwashes/indoctrinates people the entire movie, Jack included. That coupled with him BEING Jack and KNOWNING that He and Jack are the same person, he (thinks) he knows exactly how far Jack is willing to go and what will stop him. He knows that Jack will not go that far, or that he can escape it and will back down. He's obviously wrong at the end, but his argument with Jack in the skyscraper near the end shows this is what he believes. That Jack's a coward.
Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!
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What does Tyler symbolize in Fight Club?
While the narrator represents the crisis of capitalism as a crisis of masculinity, Tyler Durden represents "redemption of masculinity repackaged as the promise of violence in the interests of social and political anarchy".How does Fight Club show toxic masculinity?
Fight Club is a lot about toxic masculinity, but it doesn't necessarily approve of it: it paints the narrator as an ill man, for whom \u2013 without giving away too much \u2013 things do not end well, and it paints the army of men who follow him as nasty, alienated, cruel.Is anyone real in Fight Club?
The only characters throughout the entire film who we ever know the full names of are Bob (Robert Paulson), Marla (Singer) and Tyler (Durden). These are the only "real" people as far as Jack is concerned.How does Fight Club represent masculinity?
In Fight Club, the mentality of the group is represented by raw and uncensored violence, a trait only found in \u201creal\u201d and \u201cmanly\u201d men. These men are simply beating each other up as a way to remind themselves of the masculinity they feel they have lost but still have deep inside of them.Tyler Durden Philosophy Of Life - Fight Club
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