Birth of Tragedy Assignment -- Paper III

 
 
 

On page 46 Nietzsche writes:

The effects wrought by the Dionysian also seem titanic and barbaric to the Apollinian Greek; while at the same time he could not conceal from himself that he, too, was inwardly related to these overthrown Titans and heros.  Indeed, he had to recognize even more than this: despite all its beauty and moderation, his entire existence rested on a hidden substratum of suffering and of knowledge, revealed to him by the Dionysian.  And behold: Apollo could not live without Dionysian!  The titanic and the barbaric were in the last analysis as necessary as the Apollinian.

 
 

Write two to three pages unpacking the above thought.  In light of the themes of this semester and with careful attention to Nietzsche's text, of what does the Dionysian consist?  And how is it that it forms a core of the noble being given our convention of thinking it is the culling and separating of Dionysian from Apollo (i.e. Antigone from Creon, Harlfeur from Agincourt) that yields us civility and civilizations?  As usual normal fonts, normal margins, one and a half space.