- Christian morality still dictates wrong and right, even though "God is dead".
- Suffering is made contagious by pity.
- Pity thwarts evolution.
Given that Nietzsche lived most of his life in pain and suffering there needs to be some dark undertone to the cover that communicates this. This dark undertone also lends itself well to the generally pessimistic style of writing.
The cover of the version of the book I'm reading is below. It seems that whoever 'designed' this cover felt the same, although wasn't very discrete with getting this dark undertone.
Nietzsche's contempt for Christianity started when he was young, questioning why God would punish his father (who was a priest) by causing him to die early at the age of 35, and his brother to die early at the age of 2. My questioning of Christianity comes from my grandfather (also a priest) and his obsession with Christianity which runs his life in a way which I would suggest is unhealthy. Using blood (or a blood-like substitute) as one of the two colours for my cover would not only give the cover the dark undertone it requires, but also has the connotations of family that are appropriate to both my own and Nietzsche's questioning of humanity. For this reason blood will only be used to print Nietzsche's name and the title of the book.
I also mentioned that the book was written day by day, chapter by chapter, which explains why the chapters are so short. Given that the cover of a book holds the book together, I feel like this needs to be made clear in the cover. However this is done, it will be done in a slightly lighter colour than the stock I use to represent how Christian morality shines above all else. The similarity in the colour will represent how embedded Christian morality is into our society.
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