What Is Art? · Character
Hunding
Character in Wagner's Die Walküre, Sieglinda's husband.
minor
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Hunding's tie to Siegmund is one of the pressures that moves What Is Art?—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
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- Wagner's Ring characters
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Escalation
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rivalry · negative
Hunding is Siegmund's mortal enemy, seeking to kill him for his wife's honor. How this plays out →
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