Tyler Durden is the main antagonist in the 1996 novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and its 1999 film adaptation of the same name. Tyler Durden is the complete opposite of the Narrator. Whereas the Narrator is a rational, wage-slave consumer of modern society, Tyler is a minimalist and neo-luddite who is smart, capable, charismatic and intuitive... which is basically everything the Narrator wishes he could be. Tyler greatly opposed societal programming, rampant consumerism, popular culture and human society in the modern era. He envisioned men and women living freely in an Arcadian utopia, with the humans who he led there having reached enlightenment. Tyler believed that hardships and dissapointments are required to reach his esoteric enlightenment.