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Music is the privileged access to will, inspiring Wagner's total art and Ring Cycle as a national form for unifying German desire.
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The Ring plot is interpreted as desire causing contracts, transgression, treachery, sacrifice, destruction, and possible renewal.
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The Ring plot is interpreted as desire causing contracts, transgression, treachery, sacrifice, destruction, and possible renewal.
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The Ride of the Valkyries is said to collapse time and space and unite listeners into one will.
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Norse mythology remains culturally active through later German and Anglo literary forms, including Wagner's cycle and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
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"Does that make sense? So he says, Life has no intrinsic worth but is kept in motion merely by desire and illusion. And as..."
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"And why is this important? Because it inspires Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner is the most famous musician in Germany. He's really the national poet..."
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"...up in the sky, there's a god named Wotan, okay? So Wagner's using a lot of Norse mythology that we learned before from the..."
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"And Wotan and the gods want to create a palace for themselves called Valhalla. And they hire a giant to build this Valhalla. And..."
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"That's his great idea. So he gives birth to twins, Siglinde and Sigmund. They're separated at birth, they're twins, and then they run into..."
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"sees the love between Siglinde and Sigmund, and she wants to save Sigmund and defy Wotan's orders. Wotan hears about this and punishes Bohendi..."
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"is she sacrifices herself in the flames and throws the ring back to the river maidens, okay? And then what happens, and this is..."
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"As you can see, it's very powerful, right? It represents the unity of the will. So as people are watching this, they become united..."
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"be a very famous German composer named Wagner who will take the story of Sigard Brumhilde and this entire Norse mythology and construct something..."
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"Now let's move on, okay? So building on top of Wagner and Schopenhauer is Friedrich Nietzsche, okay? Who is considered one of the greatest..."
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"...obedient to power, okay? All right. So if you take Schopenhauer, Wagner, and Nietzsche together and combine them, what you get is a rejection..."
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"...But, and this is a really, this is an idea from Wagner, okay?"
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