Corporate Culture in Literature

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This paper presents a comparison between Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club". Corporate culture is clearly defined, and the effects on each character are explained and explored. The way each character's individuality is challenged produces the individualized result that ends each of the stories.

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"This stifling way of living not only restrains social activity, but it also blocks the imagination. Palahniuk's narrator found this unbearable and became self-loathing and suicidal: "Every takeoff and landing, when the plane banked too much to one side, I prayed for a crash. That moment cures my insomnia with narcolepsy when we might die helpless and packed human tobacco in the fuselage" (25). This morbidity comes form the knowledge that neither he nor his work really matters; he is completely expendable."

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