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.
