A GUIDE TO FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE’S BOOK THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical novel written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900).

Zarathustras journey

Thus Spoke Zarathustra follows the journey of the fictional character Zarathustra (based upon the historical Persian prophet Zarathustra) as he holds speeches and interacts with people, gradually gaining a following of students and building his legacy in the world.

CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ANALYSIS

FIRST PART

Zarathustra’s Prologue

1: On the three metamorphoses
2. On the Teachers of Virtue
3. On Believers in a World Behind
4. On the Despisers of the Body
5. On Enjoying and Suffering the Passions
6. On the Pale Criminal
7. On Reading and Writing
8. On the Tree on the Mountainside
9. On the Preachers of Death
10. On War and Warrior-Peoples
11. On the New Idol
12. On the Flies of the Market-Place
13. On Chastity
14. On the Friend
15. On the Thousand Goals and One
16. On Love of One’s Neighbour
17. On the Way of the Creator
18. On Old and Young Little Women
19. On the Bite of the Adder
20. On Children and Marriage
21. On Free Death
22. On the Bestowing Virtue

SECOND PART

1. The Child With the Mirror
2. Upon the Isles of the Blest
3. On Those Who Pity
4. On the Priests
5. On the Virtuous
6. On the Rabble
7. On the Tarantulas
8. On the Famous Wise Men
9. The Night-Song
10. The Dance-Song
11. The Grave-Song
12. On Self-Overcoming
13. On Those Who Are Sublime
14. On the Land of Culture
15. On Immaculate Perception
16. On the Scholars
17. On the Poets
18. On Great Events
19. The Soothsayer
20. On Redemption
21. On Human Cleverness
22. The Stillest Hour

THIRD PART

1. The Wanderer
2. On the Vision and Riddle
3. On Blissfulness Against One’s Will
4. Before the Sunrise
5. On the Virtue That Makes Smaller
6. Upon the Mount of Olives
7. On Passing By
8. On Apostates
9. The Return Home
10. On the Three Evils
11. On the Spirit of Heaviness
12. On Old and New Tablets
13. The Convalescent
14. On the Great Yearning
15. The Other Dance-Song
16. The Seven Seals (or: The Yea-and Amen-Song)