The Nietzsche Reader Literary Elements

The Nietzsche Reader Literary Elements

Genre

Fiction

Setting and Context

The book is written in the context of critical commentary.

Narrator and Point of View

First-person narrative

Tone and Mood

The tone is ambivalent, and the tone is pessimistic.

Protagonist and Antagonist

The narrator is the protagonist.

Major Conflict

The major conflict is when the author indicates that God is dead. He also encourages people to overcome the shadow of God.

Climax

The climax is when humanity accepts pleasures and horrors at equal measures.

Foreshadowing

Nietzsche's critical commentary foreshadowed the illogicality of the present philosophers who seek to find the truth instead of first finding facts about untruth.

Understatement

The assertion that God is dead is an understatement. The reality is that God reigns forever.

Allusions

The story alludes to philosophical arguments and findings of truth and God's existence.

Imagery

The author majorly uses the imagery of death to describe human feelings about fear. No individual wants to die because death is painted with misery and punishment.

Paradox

The paradox of Anti-Christ is evident in the book when the author argues that pagans still hold to religious assumptions and views despite believing that God does not exist.

Parallelism

There is a parallel between the anti-Christ’s assumptions of God and Christianity.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

Death is personified as a torturer.

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