The novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk explores violence as a coping mechanism for the unnamed narrator's monotonous life. He struggles with his identity and finds an outlet through his alter ego Tyler Durden, who leads underground fight clubs for men to experience pain and masculinity. These small fight clubs grow into the larger Project Mayhem movement, as Tyler uses violence to assert dominance in the world. The story examines what it means to be alive through the narrator's dark desires and his fading away each night as Tyler takes over.