1. Schopenhauer thought that life was "perpetual suffering." He thought that we are always unsatisfied and that our desires were never fulfilled, and Nietzsche agreed to a certain extent. In The Birth of Tragedy, he takes the same pessimistic view but thinks there's hope in art. The main difference in the philosophies of these two men is that he has art is the way that we face the absurdities of life.
2. The quote "Conscious of the truth he has once seen, man now sees everywhere only the horror or the absurdity of existence" is referring to the way humans are never satisfied. This is a Schopenhauerian view of humanity because he is saying that since we only see the absurdities in the world, we always feel the need to try to make them right, which means we are never satisfied.
3. Lisa is the "Socrates" in The Simpsons because she is the "theoretical optimist." She has a faith in reason and so did Socrates. Both of them are reasonable and think that reason will help protect them from the absurdities in the world and maybe even correct them.
4. I think Nietzsche identifies with Plato. Nietzsche believed in the split between appearance and reality which is similar to the dichotomy of forms and the particulars, both are like the idea of metaphysical dualism discussed in The Republic.
5. Similar to why we speculate there isn't a lot of dialogue in the beginning of Wall-E, words take away from the action. To me, the quote "I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar" is basically saying "talk is cheap." There is a difference between reality and appearance in the same sense there is a difference between action and talking. The difference is one is an illusion and one is concrete. Words are just words, whereas actions are the reality. Nietzsche was an atheist and says that man created God. If we still talk about God, he is still a factor in our lives and the way the world works.
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