/lit/ - Literature

>>23019757
Der Ring des Nibelungen. King Charles explains it:

>I have a passion for Wagner’s music. The Ring Cycle, for me, is something very important. The ash tree in the Ring cycle which eventually dies and causes the terrible destruction.

>I’ve always felt for a long time that Wagner’s Ring is actually an allegory on man’s arrogance towards the environment and the divine, in many ways. And an interesting object lesson, perhaps, in what happens if you think you can just control everything the way we want to without paying attention to the way the natural world works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08vTtu4pmjk

>>22987795
>No Der Ring des Nibelungen or essays by Wagner
Very disappointing!

>>22972189
Umm, Der Ring des Nibelungen, I guess?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm8rwP94BmE

>>22808540
Siegfried.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0JU2c_W3O0

The more I read/listen to the Ring the more it reminds me of the ideas in Miyazaki's movies. Abused nature, the ravaging effect of technology and capital, our civilisation's lust for power, the importance of ritual in our relation to nature, an environmental catastrophe, the vitality of the heroic individual, etc.