were also called Abel and Cain. Both brothers are stronglycharacterized and each one represents a different aspect ofthe people. The first one would correspond to the utopiaof 1789, the one that dreams about justice and about equality. For this idealist, money has no value; only women and loveare worth granting efforts. With a lot of common sense heaccuses Wotan of sacrificing love and the value of women tosterile stony bulwarks. His brother Fafner would correspondmore to the revolutionary of 1791. The ambitions are totallyhe wants to seize Freia, it is only to deprive the Gods ofthe golden apples, to weaken them, by no means to eat them. He is the one who will urge his brother to agree with theargument is still defensive: it is necessary to prevent Alberichfrom taking advantage of it. When he seizes the treasure, all hisfighting spirit will faint, as the former revolutionary becomesa conservative bourgeois brooding his gold. all the characters, the two giants are those that best correspondto the concept of "race". The word is to be understoodin terms of a homogeneous human group. Each of the giantswould thus symbolize an aspect of people builders, farmers,while Nibelungen belong to the working class. By referringto the myth, the Giants are in war with the Nibelungs. Giants are shown as two massive bearded men, with heavy gesturesof relatively little meaning. Loge says they are brutes endowedwith sensibility. As he is dying, Fafner himself becomes endowedwith a sort of clairvoyance and even prescience. the original stage setting, he dies under the shape of the dragon,which Siegfried brings down, but with Chéreau, he resumeshis human shape. The reason for it is that the dialogue is moreexpressive between human faces.