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Definition of Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other. The comparison in a metaphor can be stated explicitly, as... read full definition
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other. The comparison in a metaphor... read full definition
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other... read full definition
Key Examples in Fight Club
Chapter 6
Explanation and Analysis—Football as Pornography:
The Narrator uses metaphor to illustrate how fight club makes him feel in touch with the raw, thrilling elements of reality:
Fight club is not football on television. You aren’t watching a bunch of men you don’t know halfway around the world beating on each other live by satellite with a two-minute delay, commercials pitching beer every ten minutes, and a pause now for station identification. After you’ve been to fight club, watching football on television is watching pornography when you could be having great sex.
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Chapter 9
Explanation and Analysis—Space Monkeys:
Over the course of the novel, “space monkeys” become a metaphor for the members of Project Mayhem, so much so that eventually the Narrator exclusively refers to these men as space monkeys, as in this passage from Chapter 17:
Unlock with LitCharts A+I hug the walls, being a mouse trapped in this clockwork of silent men with the energy of trained monkeys, cooking and working and sleeping in teams. Pull a lever. Push a button. A team of space monkeys cooks meals all day, and all day, teams of space monkeys are eating out of the plastic bowls they brought with them.
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Chapter 17
Explanation and Analysis—Space Monkeys:
Over the course of the novel, “space monkeys” become a metaphor for the members of Project Mayhem, so much so that eventually the Narrator exclusively refers to these men as space monkeys, as in this passage from Chapter 17:
Unlock with LitCharts A+I hug the walls, being a mouse trapped in this clockwork of silent men with the energy of trained monkeys, cooking and working and sleeping in teams. Pull a lever. Push a button. A team of space monkeys cooks meals all day, and all day, teams of space monkeys are eating out of the plastic bowls they brought with them.
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