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What Is Art? · Character

Hunding

Character in Wagner's Die Walküre, Sieglinda's husband.

minor

First appearance: i

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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With Siegmund (rivalry): Hunding is Siegmund's mortal enemy, seeking to kill him for his wife's…

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Character Web

4 connections

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SISiegmundSISieglindaBRBrünnhildaWOWotanHUHunding

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  • Rivalry
  • Other

Character groups

  • Wagner's Ring characters

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Narrative arc

Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

SetupEscalationClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point

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