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Contesting the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club
2021. urn:nbn:hr:142:091367
Vujić, Fabijan
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Vujić, F. (2021). Contesting the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:091367

Vujić, Fabijan. "Contesting the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:091367

Vujić, Fabijan. "Contesting the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:091367

Vujić, F. (2021). 'Contesting the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 17 February 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:091367

Vujić F. Contesting the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2021 [cited 2025 February 17] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:091367

F. Vujić, "Contesting the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2021. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:091367

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TitleContesting the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club
Title (croatian)Promišljanje "američkog sna" u romanima The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgeralda i Fight Club Chucka Palahniuka
AuthorFabijan Vujić
MentorSanja Runtić (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2021-09-13, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper deconstructs and questions the idea of the American Dream in Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club (1996) and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925). It juxta- poses two characters from different eras who face similar issues and go through similar situa- tions, focusing on their spiritual incompatibility with the society of their time and the norms it imposes on an individual. Another problem it addresses is the feasibility of the American Dream and what an individual must sacrifice in order to succeed. The paper also deals with the dark side of the American Dream, pointing out its flaws and the details its pursuer should pay attention to. It argues that happiness comes from within, not through material gains, and that material possessions only make life difficult and hollow. In addition, the analysis high- lights the concepts of existence, mortality, and morality in order to show that even though the two novels’ settings and time frames are completely different, some issues regarding human nature simply cannot be changed. The paper also tackles the idea of nihilism, which is mostly apparent in Fight Club, where characters undergo a change due to their realization that life might be worthless.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:091367
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Croatian Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) hrvatskog jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) hrvatskog jezika i književnosti)
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