Wagner As a Composer, the Essay

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"So Wieland wrought a goodly store of rings alike to that his Swan-wife gave him, and strung them on a hempen cord against his wall: amongst them all she should not recognize her own" (Wagner 102). A king named Neiding (Envy)takes Wieland captive, but eventually by making himself wings he sets himself free, and finds his beloved once again (Wagner 103). The theme of the lost ring of course recalls the Ring cycle, and the idea of an enchanted beloved reappears not only in the Ring but also Tristan and Parsifal. Wagner's great love of this myth also shows his fascination with 'quest' narratives, like the Ring and the Grail sagas.

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This planned Buddhist opera was said to be inspired upon Schopenhauer's writings which linked Christianity, Buddhism, and Brahmanism as sharing a lack of a 'will to live' along with heroic quest tales (Beckett 11). The plot revolves around a chaste man, Ananda, who accepts a woman named Pratkriti who passionately loves him into the circle of the Buddha.

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She eventually rejects Ananda to seek more spiritual values, and the Buddha reveals that in a previous incarnation she once rejected the love of a Brahman's son. Once again, there is suspicion of "the most complete and irredeemable egoism" that is at the heart of the "monk's renunciation" according to Wagner, in contrast to highly fertile and sexual women like Brunnhilde in The Ring (Beckett 12).

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