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Updated: June 6, 2025
The physician approaches the bed and examines the body of Mélisande. "They are right," he says. There is a silence. "I saw nothing. Are you sure?" questions Arkël. "Yes, yes." "I heard nothing. So quickly! so quickly! She goes without a word!" Golaud sobs aloud. "Do not remain here," says Arkël. "She must have silence now. Come; come. It is terrible, but it is not your fault.
"Do you see those great eyes? it is as if they gloried in their power." "I see," responds Arkël, "only a great innocence." "A great innocence!" cries Golaud wildly. "They are more than innocent!... They are purer than the eyes of a lamb. They might teach God lessons in innocence! A great innocence! Listen!
The characters in his plays live, as the old king, Arkël, says in Pelléas et Mélisande, like persons "whispering about a closed room," This drama at once his most typical, moving, and beautiful performance swims in an atmosphere of portent and bodement; here, as Pater noted in the work of a wholly different order of artist, "the storm is always brooding;" here, too, "in a sudden tremor of an aged voice, in the tacit observance of a day," we become "aware suddenly of the great stream of human tears falling always through the shadows of the world."
Here, too, lives Golaud's young half-brother, Pelléas for they are not sons of the same father. Half a year has passed, and it is spring. Geneviève reads to her father, the ancient Arkël, a letter sent by Golaud to Pelléas.
'Pelléas et Mélisande' is founded upon Maeterlinck's play of that name, the action of which it follows closely, but not closely enough, it seems, to please the poet, who publicly dissociated himself from the production of Debussy's opera and, metaphorically speaking, cursed it root and branch. Golaud, the son of King Arkel, wandering in the wood finds the damsel Mélisande sitting by a fountain.
It seems to me it seems to me well, then, it is this: I ask you if you loved him with a guilty love? Were you were you both guilty?" "No, no; we were not guilty," she replies; "why do you ask me that?" Arkël and the physician appear at the door. "You may come in," says Golaud despairingly; "it is useless, I shall never know! I shall die here like a blind man!" "You will kill her," warns Arkël.
They decide to receive Golaud and his child-bride, although the marriage has prevented a union which, for political reasons, Arkël had arranged for his grandson. Again the scene changes. Mélisande and Geneviève are walking together in the gardens, and they are joined by Pelléas.
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