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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: their work, acclaims them in stirring speeches, and casts down
their enemies; whilst Loki makes commercial treaties for them and
subjects all his diplomacy to their approval.
The end cannot come until Siegfried learns A1beric's trade and
shoulders Alberic's burden. Not having as yet done so, he is
still completely mastered by Alberic. He does not even rebel
against him except when he is too stupid and ignorant, or too
romantically impracticable, to see that Alberic's work, like
Wotan's work and Loki's work, is necessary work, and that
therefore Alberic can never be superseded by a warrior, but only
by a capable man of business who is prepared to continue his work
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