Problem
Read Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra (or what you can of it), at least the portion at the end of part 2 of Zarathustra's Prolog. In this section, just after the allegorical journey, Zarathustra encounters an aged ascetic who expresses the misanthropy and love of God in his statement: When Zarathustra heard theses words, he saluted the saint and said, "What should I have to give you! But let me go quickly that I take nothing from you!" And thus they parted from one another, the old man and Zarathustra, laughing as two boys laugh. But when Zarathustra was alone, he spoke thus to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint has not heard in his forest that God is dead!" What is Nietzsche's claim "God is dead" mean? Explain this notion in the context of both the Romanticism and Realism of the age that Nietzsche lived in.