Archetypes in Fight Club
One common archetype within Fight Club is the Jekyll and Hyde personalities that the narrator encompasses. The narrator is shown as the good guy in the novel, the typical Jekyll, while Tyler is the typical Hyde. Dr. Henry Jekyll was an individual with a personality disorder with the other personality being the evil Edward Hyde and these two closely resemble the narrator and Tyler because they both contrast each other. While Jekyll was good, Hyde was evil. While the narrator is considered good/effeminate, Tyler is evil/masculine.
Tyler is also the classic rebel. Everything that Tyler does is to undermine the authorities and to cause destruction wherever he goes. His main drive is to destroy everything so that it can once again "fly higher" than how it was before. This kind of thinking is very typical to the archetypical rebel who desires to cause revolution or revenge. Tyler wants revenge on society for making the world so feminine. He will do this by causing as much disruption and distraught as he possibly could which are all features of an archetypal rebel.
The narrator would be the archetypal regular guy who just wants to fit in. He joins support groups so that he could feel that he belongs and so that he could have someone hug him and make him feel like a human being. After leaving the support group, he seeks company in the form of a masculine man, which he creates Tyler for, whether he knows it or not. When he finds out that Tyler is trying to do some absurd things, he leaves and seeks the company of Marla to help him try and stop Tyler. He is acting like the archetypal regular guy in all these instances.
The narrator would be the archetypal regular guy who just wants to fit in. He joins support groups so that he could feel that he belongs and so that he could have someone hug him and make him feel like a human being. After leaving the support group, he seeks company in the form of a masculine man, which he creates Tyler for, whether he knows it or not. When he finds out that Tyler is trying to do some absurd things, he leaves and seeks the company of Marla to help him try and stop Tyler. He is acting like the archetypal regular guy in all these instances.