Nietzsche is a very complicated author. His writings are read by many intellectual readers just for fun. His writings are based on philosophy, for he is one. His essay, The Birth of Tragedy deals with two different tendencies that run parallel for the most part in conflict.
             In his essay he explains that the terms Dionysian and Apollonian we borrow from the Greeks, who give the curious mind the mysteries of their view of art, not to be sure but to have the concept of the clear figures of their gods. In his example he says that with these two characters we come to recognize that in the Greek world there existed opposition between their arts of music.
             He also uses the illusion of dreams. He says that our reality is part from our dreams. Is anything real? Our art, and poetry, is a reflection of our dreams. He agrees with Lucretius, "that the glorious divine figures first appeared to the souls of men; in dreams..." This joyous necessity of the dream experience has been embodied by the Greeks in their Apollo. Nietzsche uses the gods of Greek mythology to describe the way humans use their dreams to help understand the conflicts between humans. We created an illusion that we saw in our dreams to help us resolve our conflicts between us. They created them to make our lives easier to understand, and help others live a better life. In a way we lived our lives the way the gods lived theirs. We make our own tragedies. He emphasizes that there is a different reality that lies beneath the reality that we know. We live in a dream reality, so are we real? Is anything we know real? Life is an illusion, and we reveal our dream reality in our art, and music.
             Nietzsche maintained that all human behavior is motivated by the will to power. In its positive sense, the will to power is not simply power over others, but the power over oneself that is nec
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