  The act of resolution is the ethical act, it is freedom (115, Stages on Life's Way ). (in referring to marriage as it relates to love) The ironist has (in the soul-slumber, in the man of nothingness) the absolute in the opposition to the relativity of life... (119, The Concept of Irony ). The tragic hero expresses the universal and sacrifices himself for it. The sectarian punchinello, instead of that, has a private theatre, i.e. several good friends and comrades who represent the universal just about as well as the beadles in The Golden Snuffbox represent justice (164, Fear and Trembling and Sickness Unto Death ) 
