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64 announces to the congregated Powers of Heaven the coming of the incarnation of

to redescend and trample out the insurrectionary Soul of Man; the Child of himself and Thetis,

He hears the approach of the awaited Incarnation, the thunder of the fiery wheels griding the winds; he shouts:—

Yet on the arrival of Demogorgon he cries, "Awful Shape, what art thou? Speak!" It is barely possible to conceive that Demogorgon in his actual Apparition was more tremendous and awful than the Incarnation which Jupiter expected. Why, then, this question? Dramatically it may be justified by either of two contrary reasons: Jupiter, still exultant, still assured of complete triumph, calls for glorious (or éclatanté) confirmation of his boasts to the assembled Deities; or Jupiter, thrilled suddenly with fateful presentiments of catastrophe, divining inexplicable hostility where he looked for irresistible reinforcement, cries in real astonishment underheaved by vague terror: the student must decide which by his own dramatic instinct.

(c) In the opening of Act IV. Ione questions, "What