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What Is Art? · Character

Mime

Dwarf in Wagner's Ring, a character from the operas.

minor

First appearance: i

Mime's tie to Siegfried 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 Siegfried (psychological): Mime manipulates and obsesses over Siegfried, attempting to use him for his own…

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Character Web

7 connections

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SISiegfriedWOWotanALAlberichBRBrünnhildaSISieglindaMIMime

Relationship types

  • Psychological
  • 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

The emotional and psychological peak occurs when the text abruptly shifts from abstract philosophical discussi…

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Relationships

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