Brandon and Philip are not accurate in their reading of Nietzsche as they fail to exercise complete belief in their power to be the main masters of reality. Nietzsche develops his discussion of being a master of reality looking at the values of morality; therefore his philosophy does not sanction murder and mistreatment of inferior humans. Evidently Philip and Brandon fail to consider the aspects of morality while defining their power to constrain their behavior and that of others (Hitchcock 1). Nietzsche tried to challenge the traditional and Christianity values and beliefs of morality. His interest was based on enhancing cultural and individual health and therefore he believed in power, creativity and life. In Nietzsche reading, he considers his development a master of reality as he makes us believe that we have the power and will to constrain our own drives as well as the drives of other people with reference to morality. In understanding the development by Nietzsche, Philip and Brandon develop an extreme understanding of being free in their power to be a master of their realities.

Brandon and Philip believe that David is not superior and instead he should have been born a slave or could have been beer or ginger ale. Unlike the understanding gathered by Brandon and Philip, Nietzsche is not trying to say that a master of morality is the aspect of good while slave aspect is evil. He is basically trying to show us how moral ideals and valuations that most times go unquestioned have darker sides. The development by Nietzsche prohibits performing acts of evil. What his philosophy does is question the basis of morality and thinks that if the society cannot explain the foundation of societal values, then these values are unnecessary for living. Nevertheless, Nietzsche does not glorify the murder behavior in his philosophy. He instead encourages us to live a life that is free and safe but still care for others particularly the inferior. The philosophy of Brandon and Philip would only work in their small world that is evident in the film ‘the little room where the murder set up takes place’ but cannot work for the rest of the society that still believes in good.

To him, an inescapable section of human is hidden in us placing so much value on items as that is why he criticizes social values. In criticizing social values, he brings us to an understanding of why social values are unnecessary. The values that we ascribe as good and bad, right and wrong should not be necessary because it questions the foundations of these beliefs and values. This movie is reminds of how bad ideas can turn us into monsters and from this lesson we are able to understand where Nietzsche comes from. The social theory of Nietzsche tries to bring us to an understanding of the distinction of being a master of morality in dividing ideas of good and bad and being a slave of morality that makes it hard to distinguish between evil and good. From this phrase, we are able to recall a scene in which Brandon tells his visitors that ‘right and wrong, evil and good are inventions of an ordinary man because he is need of them’. Following this argument, David’s father identifies a fundamental world view that is in agreement with Nietzsche and his social theory of superman.

Evidently, Philip and Brandon give Nietzsche words a different meaning that he himself does not develop. They try to twist his ideology into performing a cold and ugly murder. There must be something inside them that would act as a drive to make them does that and thus trying to find an excuse from Nietzsche philosophy and challenge of right and wrong. Nietzsche purports that we should be driven by the will and power to do what we can expressing all drives hidden within and having the power to dominate over others. This statement is what Philip and Brandon run with especially in David’s murder case. However, what Nietzsche is trying to communicate is that we should a central force that drives us; to him, this central force should be founded in morality. That is to mean, our behaviors, gaining authority over others should be done in morality. This is clear evidence that Nietzsche philosophy does not at any point endorse murder and mishandling of inferior human beings. strangling life out of an equivalent human being who could have loved and lived as Philip and Brandon could never have is not endorsed by Nietzsche philosophy.

From Nietzsche perspective, the powerless and oppressed see the masters of reality as powerful, terrifying and terrible. They are evil because they cause suffering to innocent people, they possess what they should not be having; they survive, thrive and depend on the pity and compassion of others even though they fail to live up to the standards of the society with respect to right and wrong, good and evil values. Nietzsche philosophy questions the basis of morality and in this manner does not endorse murder. Instead in his philosophy Nietzsche thinks that pity and living a life of guilt and self-sacrifice is against the nature of living. His philosophy dwells on the assumption that we are expected to be more than we alive; living fulfilling and satisfactory lives that do not revolve around values that cannot be explained by nature. however, in as much as Nietzsche questions the foundations of morality, he does not give us a go ahead to engage in crime and performing evil and wrong activities as it is understood by Philip and Brandon.

It is evident at this juncture that Philip and Brandon have an inaccurate understanding of Nietzsche reaching because they fail to spot the aspect of morality. Philip acts as the one who performs the strangling at the beginning of the murder scene and this is a symbol of the power as master of reality discussed by Nietzsche. Brandon on the other hand is a proud murder and his pride escalates right after the murder activity. He says that it is because of pity that the murder was not performed in broad daylight and with curtains open. According to Philip, anyone is good or bad just as their neighbor and thus as he tries to constrain Brandon, he fails because he thinks Brandon is as good as he in. Brandon justifies the power to kill in a nature of similarity as the power to create. Brandon convinces Philip how they are not supposed to act in fear because who knows whether the rest of the people are committing murder and of course they do not know whether they would be the next victims of murder so they should go ahead and perform murder.

 

 

References

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Rope. Web. 1948.

Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche preface , 15-56