'Fight Club', ‘Strangers on a Train’, and 'Jekyll and Hyde' Comparison Brainstorm

TEN SIMILARITIES	TEN DIFFERENCES
Both Jekyll and the Narrator feel repressed by their constraining society and see their alter-egos as a way to escape and be free	Tyler interacts with others and creates a following, while Hyde is a shut in and frightens others
Jekyll, the Narrator, and Guy try to clean up the messes their alter-egos make	Hyde is described as initially weaker than Jekyll and is physically deformed / unattractive, while Tyler is stringer than the Narrator and more attractive
Tyler, Hyde, and Bruno represent the id, the Narrator, Jekyll, and Guy represent the ego, and there is a lack of a superego present	Jekyll is aware of his transformations into Hyde from the beginning, but the Narrator believes Tyler is a completely different person and is unaware it is his alter-ego
Both Jekyll and the Narrator are pulled / distracted from their occupation by the thrill of their alter-ego	Bruno and Guy are different people, while Jekyll and Hyde and the Narrator and Tyler are the same person
Hyde, Tyler, and Bruno are capable of deathly violence	Guy is able to pin everything on Bruno and get everything he wanted, while the Narrator and Jekyll are held responsible for their alter-ego’s actions
Both Jekyll and the Narrators accidental transformations are connected to them sleeping	Guy and the Narrator have romantic interests while Jekyll does not
All characters participate in illegal activity	Hyde leads to Jekyll’s death, while the Narrator is left still alive and Guy is left much better off
All ego characters have a lack of knowledge of what the id alter-egos are doing	Jekyll has a physical transformation, not only a mental one, when he become Hyde, whereas the Narrator just has a emotional transformation into Tyler
Hyde, Tyler, and Bruno don’t fit in to society’s norms, and act outside what is socially expectable	Guy wants to move up the social ladder (and Bruno already sits quite high on it) while Tyler wants to destroy it  (and the Narrator aids him in this destruction
All have occupations that cause them high stress and carry with them large societal expectations	Guy is focused on improving his future while the Narrator and Jekyll are focused on short term wish fulfillment