"Dare now to be tragic men, for ye shall be redeemed!"
chapter 20 The Birth of Tragedy
The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche(summary and review)
bless my crooked soul having the guts to review a classic but even so while reading some portions of the book,i have come to realise the limitation language imposes on us,the limitation of the I "the individual".Man has been so engrossed with i that he has forgotten the surroundings..even thought the I becomes We in some cases ..the limitation of our consicous hampers us to include everything.The universe is not based upon I and We neither it is based on the domain and its limitations that we make it out to be situated in,it is neither in the words i write now, cause words I ,u,We can hardly be used to describe such feelings.So I ask myself what does!( In Simple words - not everything we feel can be expressed in words,and in our life we are fixated with I ,we,U other words words which cannot ever define the universe as they are incompetent to even describe our feelings )
Music exists in the realm beyond language, and so allows us to rise beyond consciousness and experience our connection to the Primordial Unity. Music is superior to all other arts in that it does not represent a phenomenon, but rather the "world will" itself.
IN the Birth of Tragedy Nietzche looks at the birth greek tragedy((Tragedy-A serious medieval narrative or narrative poem written in an elevated style and typically dealing with the downfall of an important or powerful person)) when it was born .. the meeting of appollonian worldview with dionysiusian.Even though he is critical of what is perceived as art ,Nietzsche has faith in the human soul and urges us to drop our Socratic pretenses(the idea of right and wrong) and accept the culture of Dionysus again.Nietzsche describes the state of Greek art before the influence of Dionysus as being naive, and concerned only with appearances. In this art conception, the observer was never truly united with art, as he remained always in quiet contemplation with it, never immersing himself. The appearances of Individual(Apollo) was designed to shield man from the innate suffering of the world, and thus provide some relief and comfort.
Then came Dionysus, whose ecstatic revels first shocked the Apollonian man of Greek culture(well you can say the appollonian man was like the hindu saffron brigade aakka shiv sena and Dionysian was valentines day). In the end, however, it was only through one's immersion in the Dionysian essence of Primordial Unity that redemption from the suffering of the world could be achieved(Meaning sex can elevate u!!).In simple words in life we have the choice to suffer and hope that we find salvation afterwards ( what a crazy idea, just a way to suffer ) or to join Dionysian gang and revel(Rockstars acid,drugs sex ,rockand roll,promiscuity ). In Dionysus, man found that his existence was not limited to his individual experiences alone, and thus a way was found to escape the fate of all men, which is death. As the Dionysian essence is eternal, one who connects with this essence finds a new source of life and hope(Now wait a minute,what is the bull and crap about being eternal ,Life is right now why this fixation with eternity) . Nietzsche thus shows Dionysus to be an uplifting alternative to the salvation offered by Christianity, which demands that man renounce life on earth altogether and focus only on heaven. For, in order to achieve salvation through Dionysus, one must immerse oneself in life now.
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