On Religion: Rhetorical Devices :: English Literature Essays

on Religion rhetorical DevicesIn Twilight of the Idols Nietzsche discusses his views on Christianity, other philosophers, and authors of his time. Nietzsches main focus, however, is on Christianity and how its actions and views are tights to an end. He uses eloquent diction that sometimes loses the lector (he fills up for his articulate word usage with elementary sentences which describe his views real efficiently) along with syntax which is very informal - for the time - to describe his views on subjects quite exquisitely. His logic is the logic which is always right he never contradicts himself or makes a statement without support. Nietzsches use of rhetorical strategies i.e. diction, syntax, and figures of speech assists him to make his points and support them in a style which help him attain his rudimentary goal to make the ratifier think. Nietzsche uses an elevated level of diction to help him achieve his purpose, he uses Latin in many passages to make the proofreader l ook to the bottom of the page and thus think about what he is proposing. His combination of elevated diction along with deductive reasoning back sometimes lose the reader, only if just as fast as the reader is lost Nietzsche offers forth a formula which helps the reader appraise his thinking. Nietzsche believes that a persons virtue is the consequence of happiness, or that a persons emotions are the product of their beliefs. Nietzsches uses consequence to mean something more like cause than effect. He interchanges monosyllabic and polysyllabic - in the form of metaphors - words in connotation to sometimes differ the reader from the beaten track of thinking. He believes in a set career that he became ill, that he failed to resist the illness, for humans and that they cannot deter from it (this is very utmost left in a time of conservative Europeans, late nineteenth century). Even in his formulas Nietzsches meaning is not as bully forward as it seems. It seems that he believes t hat individuals genetically are gist to an end, just now this is more of a metaphor for humanity, or that humanity is their own means to an end. Nietzsche use interesting syntax to evoke thought from his reader. His dependent clauses (in this excerpt, but not in others) relate back to the main clauses causing the reader to re-read the sentence or begin to formulate their own ideas (based upon what they just read).