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📖 Book 12/50 📚 Theatre, Somerset Maugham 📑 173/173 ✅ 💭

Another obligatory book that we were supposed to read (from Uni), not my own choice. What Maugham wanted to show here is the superficial and dark sides of the performants in the theatre as far as I know, main protagonist is Julia, I didn't like this character too much to be honest, at the beginning she's very naïve, affectionate and a loyal lover to Michael when they first met during performance. As they get older, they have a child Roger, then there's war, Michael participates in it for about 4-5 years, and as he comes back Julia sees him as more manly, reserved and grown spiritually and for that superficial reason she stops loving him, she thinks he lost the spirit of his youth, and from this point onward we see the true face of Julia, a manipulative, deceptive and infidel, to fulfill her needs she starts having affairs with various different men, and then a young man called Tom, to validate herself that she is still young (or pretending to be) sort of hiding it from her husband and others. She gets questioned by her son Roger at the end, and he speaks to her that she is not her authentic self, the world is a stage for her she plays the role of a good actress to get what she wants from everyone, deceptive, manipulative, selfish and etc. I get it that Maugham didn't show her as a good character, but instead wanted to show the inside world of people who are in theatre.

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📖 Book 11/50 📚 Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche 📑 532/532 ✅ 💭

Buckle up, this is going to be long. One of the influential books that I've read. Nietzsche choose Zarathustra (the first ever person to introduce the concept of moral dualisim (good and evil) to our world) to narrate because he wanted to reframe this view, he clearly and in a poetic way argues that there's no good and bad and his version of Zarathustra is there to correct it. He emphasizes the concept of Ubermensch (Above/Over man), I understood it in terms of consciousness and higher level of understanding the world, one striking thing he mentions here is that humans should search for meaning and create it on their own, they shouldn't follow something else, in a reaction to crisis in Western Civilization (fall of belief in religion). It starts with a 30 year old Zarathustra who lives in a cave mountain and finally goes out to teach humanity, I must be honest there were a lot of parts that I didn't quite comprehend, but I came to understand most of it, I should definitely read it in original German. Another major concept he introduces Three Metamorphosis - Camel (bearing all the burdens) - Lion (destroying old values) - A Child (creating new values) this is the core message here imk.

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