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Of the Higher Man
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Rethinking Morality
The Superman and the Will to Power
Death of God and Christianity
Eternal Recurrence
Summary
Analysis
(1) After the preceding discourse, Zarathustra escapes into solitude for a short time, embracing his animals. (2) The sorcerer wrestles with his sorrow and sings a song about his old thirst for truth, from which he is now banished.
In Zarathustra’s absence, the sorcerer—again, a symbol for Wagner—sings a song to try to entice the other Higher Men. He tries to lure them back to traditional truths by appealing to their emotions.
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