Humanity In Spoke Zarathustra, By Nietzche
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Throughout Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche describes human value and meaning as "self-overcoming" towards the overman. Rather than offering a clear and precise model or a set of principles to abide by, Nietzsche stresses growth, change, self-criticism, and self-improvement. The value of the human endeavor, for him, lies not in strict adherence to some fixed standard or set of standards but rather in the constant transcendence of those standards.
The overman is the ultimate state of being in which man can achieve total self-mastery—everyone should strive to be this person. For Zarathustra, the overman is the state toward which he is journeying, as well as the state he teaches his disciples to aspire to. According to Zarathustra, human beings are only one step above animals in terms of biological evolution. The evolution that Zarathustra seeks in the overman, however, is a kind of spiritual evolution of self-awareness. Humanity, as Zarathustra sees it, is still bound to superstitious notions about God, who he believes is dead. Those that have rejected such notions have instead accepted other notions of modern morality and justice, which he believes is also foolish and not beneficial.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how nietzsche describes human value and meaning as "self-overcoming" towards the overman in thus spoke zarathustra.
- Explains zarathustra's view that the overman is the ultimate state of being in which man can achieve total self-mastery.
- Analyzes how the will to power is a major philosophical theme in thus spoke zarathustra. it is the mental state that the overman must arrive at in order to accept the eternal return.
- Explains that the eternal return is the notion that time is eternal and that all things that have ever happened will happen again. zarathustra cannot fully attain it without a true love of life.
The overman must struggle with this will to power because it is what gives his life meaning. Other wills cause humans to live for base desires, but the will to power helps overcome those states. Just as stated in the eternal return, a person can realize that all that has happened can be willed to happen and will happen again, so that one can find happiness in their lives. Many have incorrectly interpreted this, such as the Nazis, who thought that Nietzsche wills humans to dominate others. According to Nietzsche, will and power must be used together so that one can transcend the nature of society, not dominate
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- Analyzes how zarathustra learnt the nature of god and learned that god is dead. humanity has killed god for their love of science and inquiry made theism inconsequential.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how nietzsche's idea of "will to will" influenced the poem.
- Analyzes how "leda and the swan" addresses these issues and more in its treatment.
- Opines that to fully understand the poem and its implications, a formal close reading of it is necessary.
- Opines that life will contribute to a textual analysis to show that the poem can be re-ad.
- Analyzes yeats's rape fantasy, in which maud gonne is leda and ye
- Explains that "leda and the swan" is a sonnet, one of the most precise forms of literature.
- Explains that four of the rhymes are not perfect: "push" and "rush," "up"
- Analyzes how the language in the poem sets the tone of a vague passive distance.
- Analyzes how the third stanza ends with 'a shudder in the loins.'
- Explains that a poem begins by an interruption when nothing precedes, but the effect of t he interruption.
- Explains that they don't bother with a full syntax until the final line of the quatrain.
- Analyzes how the poem refers to "her thighs," "her nape," and her helpless breast."
- Explains that the swan is never actually called zeus or even the swan.
- Opines that agamemnon is the only name mentioned in the poem. the swan is described as
- Opines that ambiguity could be, as nancy hargrove explains, to stress that the god is, after all, a god.
- Analyzes how they shift to past tense in the last part of the sestet ("caught").
- Explains that e is a juxtaposition between active and passive verbs so that the active verb forms.
- Opines that it makes us even more aware of the importance of being "able" (shaw 37).
- Analyzes how hargrove's poem "reflects in an orderly manner the progress of the rape."
- Analyzes how the first half of the sestet presents the scene of ejaculation. the cut line represents a scene.
- Analyzes the dramatic moment in time: a death-like silence. the final part of the sestet shows the end.
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- Analyzes how levine addresses another ambiguity in the book.
- Analyzes the connotation of the word "still" in line one. the bird is described (we assume) a s.
- Analyzes shaw's view that concrete is representative of that between "human and divine."
- Analyzes how the poet's inability to reconcile these personal conflicts with the poem resulted in a summary.
- Illustrates how yeats displacing his frustration in a positive and safe manner.
- Opines that if this assertion is indeed accurate, "leda and the swan" would be consiste nt with.
- Analyzes how she appeared as a tortured image in much of his poetry.
- Opines that maud gonne loved yeats in a platonic sense, while yeats desired more.
- Explains that yeats aspired to the same belief system, but was unable to live up to it.
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- Opines that yeats provides a good example for us of man suffering from the disease.
- Analyzes how romanticized in his poetry, those who succumb to his needs are referred to as romantics.
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- Explains that yeats saw a vision of maud and himself during the summer of 1908.
- Narrates how a 'phantom ecstasy' was accompanied by an impression of the phenom.
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- Opines that maud wrote that she could not break down some barrier.
- Analyzes how y eats had "become one with ecstasy" and yeats appeared to her triumphantly.
- Narrates how the woman woke up to a gust of wind blowing in her room and the voice of "an angel."
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- Opines that yeats, the idealistic romantic, could not let go of the hope that maud would one day.
- Analyzes how a ust-noted example would support this hope and are found in the text of the poem.
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