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Fight Club is one of many novels that explores the theme of isolation from society, and how this in turn leads to loneliness, paranoia and violence.
Fight Club's unnamed protagonist is alienated from society
He engages in antisocial behaviors, starting with the fight club and moving onto the plan to blow up the skyscraper
The separation of the narrator from society echoes other novels presenting the theme of alienation
These novels have proven to be popular since the end of WWII and the rise of our suburban, digital society.
Selfishness lies at the root of this alienation
Writers have explored the role of selfishness in alienation, since at least Shakespeare
Flannery O'Connor highlighted such alienation in the two main characters in A Good Man is Hard to Find, where the grandmother is selfish and disconnected from her family, but meets her end at the hands of the equally isolated Misfit
The Fight Club narrator is mentally cut off from society, and seeks outlet in violence
Isolation as a theme leads to violence
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