Strength in My culture/Nietzsche/Achebe/Shelley

Strength in my culture is embodied in many different ways. Gender wise it usually pertains to the male form. It comes up alot on billboards, in magazines, riding the airwaves. Real strength is a high powered, efficiently fueled car engine. You'd be lucky to run into it in the middle of a cloud of smoke, its bround to bring tears to your eyes and put you on your knees with your head between your legs. To get just a bit stronger grab a couple drinks of the smooth, refreshing hard stuff, or a sip or two straight out of the Captains ship, lord knows it only gets harder. And please, be carefull not to vomit your soul into a plastic trash can. Are you coming off the line a bit to weakly? Show her your strength with a fresh new pair of kicks, flash her some of that sparkle and shine, low grade high class hardened masks are always nice. Or... if your tired of being peddled your daily dose, some chug down extra-strength- tired of lugging around the same old gun, this ones gauranteed not to shoot blanks... and in most cases will get you killed before you have a chance to fire. Strength in my culture rarely comes cheap, and is either bound to hook you by the balls, or hold your nose in the dirt, so my advice to every kid sucking society's big fat cock is remember how good the pain feels, cause you'll never be able to shake that beast off your ass. Can't you just have the balls to turn around and hold your ground until it takes your last fucking breath. Thats the only strength for my money.

Strength is represented in Nietzsce while he insists we are basically forces who stand against a prevailing wind. In other words while the world we live in destroys our bodies, our being insists that we can feel as much the day after our birth as we can the day before our death. Achebe describes strength in a more cultural context, usually through symbols such as warfare, bloodshed, and strife. Shelley depicts strength as some extraordinary search for vengeance that is never fulfilled in the mind of the main character but happens anyway due to the enivitable pursuit of nature.