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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: "Patience, my lad," he says: "if you were an old man I should
treat you with respect." "That would be a precious notion," says
Siegfried. "All my life long I was bothered and hampered by an
old man until I swept him out of my way. I will sweep you in the
same fashion if you don't let me pass. Why do you wear such a big
hat; and what has happened to one of your eyes? Was it knocked
out by somebody whose way you obstructed?" To which Wotan replies
allegorically that the eye that is gone--the eye that his
marriage with Fricka cost him--is now looking at him out of
Siegfried's head. At this, Siegfried gives up the Wanderer as a
lunatic, and renews his threats of personal violence. Then Wotan
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