In Robert Penn Warren's novel, All the King's Men, Jack Burden states, " The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing a man can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him (9)."" Jack's statement reveals that man is enslaved by knowledge. Familiar sayings such as, "...
He realizes that Tyler's wish is to destroy all that society currently is, reverting back to a primitive hunter-gatherer sort of society, before technology, money, and material possessions were important. ... During this important conversation between Tyler and Jack, it is also made clear that Tyler has discovered a way to accomplish his goal for the correction of society's flaws. Tyler has created through Project Mayhem an operation in which important financial buildings in strategic cities across North America have been wired with explosives, set to go off when the buildings ar...
The glasses, however, help illustrate his intellectual strength, his ability to think situations over logically and use reason, rather than emotions to decide upon important dilemmas. ... A quotation from Jack himself describes this perfectly: "I was going to [stick the pig]. ...
