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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: an explanation of his works, said frankly "How do I know?"
Wagner, being a philosopher and critic as well as a composer, was
always looking for moral explanations of what he had created) and
he hit on several very striking ones, all different. In the same
way one can conceive Henry the Eighth speculating very
brilliantly about the circulation of his own blood without
getting as near the truth as Harvey did long after his death.
None the less, Wagner's own explanations are of exceptional
interest. To begin with, there is a considerable portion of The
Ring, especially the portraiture of our capitalistic industrial
system from the socialist's point of new in the slavery of the
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