s struggles would finish, but since life is not an end, even after the Superman frees himself from society, he must continue struggling to maintain his fr!
             eedom. Nietzsche also uses the rope to describe a situation where if the higher man can overcome a human inclination that makes him feel more drawn to living like an animal than to living like a Superman, then the higher man can surpass man and become a Superman.
             Suffering is an important part of the development of the Superman. Nietzsche wrote that man must give birth to the Superman by self-evaluation, and that grief was the most powerful incentive that drove a man toward self-evaluation (Nietzsche, 42). Self-evaluation is necessary in the creation of the Superman because it helps the higher man pinpoint exactly what causes his suffering and what boundaries he must transgress to find happiness. The process of changing a higher man into a Superman has two distinct stages of suffering. In the first stage of suffering, higher man suffers from what he is as an individual, and is disgusted at himself for being so weak that he leads a life completely in accordance to that which is expected by society. This early stage of suffering is in conflict with the higher man's own individual desires and impels him to extreme somberness and pessimism. Nietzsche coins the second stage of suffering as "when man ceases to suffer as an individual a!
             nd begins suffering at the hands of man," (Nietzsche, 127). In the second stage of suffering, the higher man is living with such a high degree of pain and disgust that he is forced to commit the transgression(s) that will be his salvation, and thus give birth to the Superman.
             For a higher man to transform into a Superman, he must destroy some aspect of common morality. The emerging morality can become a supreme law that can set a tidal wave of generational change in motion, or if people do not accept the Superman's ne...