Comparing Nietzsche s The Of The Farmer And The Blond...

To begin, Nietzsche starts with the story of the Farmer and the Blond beasts. It leads with a normal farming town, sufficiently living quietly on its own. At this point, you may enter the Blond beasts. These are the new, stronger, ‘better’ humans. They insert themselves into the lives of the farmers and immediately take control. Being weaker, the farmers have no choice but to bow down and obey. This new regime looks down upon the ‘slaves’ and decide that they themselves must be the good kind of humans- after all, they are more powerful. These slaves are pitiful, weak, and unable to protect themselves, therefore they must aspire to be like the masters, right? While this idea of being better is developing within the masters, the slaves are brooding over their own forming judgments. They reminisce over the life that once was- before the beasts. At this point, all the slaves know is that these powerful beings have ruined their lives and turned them into desolate beings. This feeling is what breeds this heady combination of envy, hatred, and powerlessness. In this position, the only thing the slaves are able to do is to imagine the demise of these masters. The slaves come to the realization that, even though the masters believe them to be the ‘good’ ones, they are in fact the ones perpetuating this oppression, therefore they must be the bad, or evil, ones. Here is where we see the development of Nietzsche’s two types of morality- master morality and slave morality. Master