“Indeed, generally speaking, Wagner does not seem to have become interested in any other problems than those which engross the little Parisian decadents of to-day. Always five paces away from the hospital! All very modern problems, all problems which are at home in big cities! do not doubt it!… Have you noticed (it is in keeping with this association of ideas) that Wagner's heroines never have any children?—They cannot have them.… The despair with which Wagner tackled the problem of arranging in some way for Siegfried's birth, betrays how modern his feelings on this point actually were.—Siegfried “emancipated woman”—but not with any hope of offspring.”
Wagner's work distinguishes itself by exploring women issues. Wagner's works incorporate heroines who do not fulfill the societal expectation of motherhood. The prime ideology is that women can be childless if they prefer to do so. Accordingly, Wagner rescues women through compositions which assert that birthing should not be mandatory in women's lives. Accordingly, Wagner appeals to modernism by challenging rigid traditions that constrain women.
“That the separate philosophical ideas are not anything optional or autonomously evolving, but grow up in connection and relationship with each other, that, however suddenly and arbitrarily they seem to appear in the history of thought, they nevertheless belong just as much to a system as the collective members of the fauna of a Continent—is betrayed in the end by the circumstance: how unfailingly the most diverse philosophers always fill in again a definite fundamental scheme of POSSIBLE philosophies.”
Philosophies are dynamic; thus, they change continuously which alters the ideologies that governed them previously. The association between various ideas shifts due to the changing nature of philosophies. New and modern ideas are contributory to the emergence of new philosophies. Moreover, new philosophies could challenge long-standing creeds which have been held as unqualified truths. Modification ensures that the philosophies are not moribund or irrelevant.
“The beauteous appearance of the dream-worlds, in the production of which every man is a perfect artist, is the presupposition of all plastic art, and in fact, as we shall see, of an important half of poetry also. We take delight in the immediate apprehension of form; all forms speak to us; there is nothing indifferent, nothing superfluous. But, together with the highest life of this dream-reality we also have, glimmering through it, the sensation of its appearance: such at least is my experience, as to the frequency, ay, normality of which I could adduce many proofs, as also the sayings of the poets.”
Illusions are comparable to 'plastic art' for they do not represent real art. Dream-like perceptions trigger poets' creativity which can be translated in persuasive and compelling imageries. Illusions exhibit the philosophical nature of human beings that can be utilized in unearthing concealed realities. Dreams depict the actualities of existence.
