-This is an essay for the Philosophy and the Arts course. Therefore it needs to contain both philosophy and art knowledge.
-The primary reading is The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche.
-The essay question is Evaluate Nietzsches contention that art is the highest form of human activity.
-Nietzsche indicates that art is the highest form of human activity, and that art bounds up in opposition between Apolline & Dionysiac.
-In the essay, an artwork should be chosen as an example to illustrate the argument. In this case, the artwork is a 16 minute film, Ballet Mcanique (1923-24) by Fernand Lger. The film and Nietzsches contention needs to be linked at some point, by giving examples of its Apolline and Dionysiac characteristics.