Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The book chronicles the fictitious travels and speeches of Zarathustra. Zarathustra's namesake was the founder of Zoroastrianism, usually known in English as Zoroaster. Nietzsche is clearly portraying a 'new' or 'different' Zarathustra, one who turns traditional morality on its head. He goes on to characterise 'what the name of Zarathustra means in my mouth, the mouth of the first immoralist:' (Wi...