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Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science offered us only a glimpse of what Nietzsche has to offer. By bringing his teachings into high school classrooms and becoming a standard high school curriculum can truly benefit and further enrich a young student’s education.

Babette E. Babich talks about Nietzsche’s style in her article “Self-Deconstruction: Nietzsche’s Philosophy as Style.” In her article she states that, “Nietzsche’s style grants neither the casual reader nor the diligent commentator an automatic access to the text” (Babich 105). From what Babich says here, she is trying to allow her audience to know that Nietzsche’s work makes a challenge for the reader to digest.

She goes on to explain how, “Nietzsche’s style is neither convoluted nor obscure. Owing to its manifold variety, however, Nietzsche’s style is elusive, and it is a truism that Nietzsche is difficult to read” (Babich 105). Babich describes how Nietzsche’s style is a bit more analytical, because how Nietzsche writes forces the reader to truly comprehend his work while knowing that it might be hard to read.

Kathleen Higgins further talks about Nietzsche’s writing style in her article, “Nietzsche’s Nursery Rhymes.” She begins by saying that, “Despite this widespread recognition of Nietzsche as an attentive stylist…that open The Gay Science” (Higgins 397). Higgins tries to explain that the style of the rhymes that open The Gay Science should be valued rather than ignored.

Finally she states, “Nietzsche’s exploitation of popular formats, illuminates the way they manipulate our awareness” (Higgins 400). Here she confirms how Nietzsche’s writing almost gives us a sense of strength in terms of building our awareness while reading his works.

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