Bereczky Erzsébet (szerk.): Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man. Essays about the ideas and the directing of the Drama (Budapest, 1985)

Endre Gellért: "I hear, I hear the coming epoch's song"

Kepler discovers for himself by himself the great ideal of Equality, Brotherhood and Freedom. He sees the Revolution in his dream against Lucifer’s intentions. Over and beyond what Madách has written, this is also demonstrated by the fact that in the Paris scene Lucifer is a mere extra. He just keeps watch over Kepler’s sleep. He is afraid to leave Adam alone, but he does not have the chance to intervene in the course of the revolution with the same intensity as he did in the earlier scenes.

And Kepler who has awakened from his dream (of the French revolution) now for the first and last time does not become disillusioned with his ideals:

What mighty visions were before my eyes,

All but the blind could see and realize The godly spark, covered by blood and mire:

How great they were in virtue, sin and ire!

It was amazing how they put the brand Of giant forces on their fatherland.

Why did I awake? Just to look around,

Better to see our era dwarfness-bound Hiding its wrongness with a smiling face And with the habit of false virtues’ grace?

And then after the dialogue with his Pupil he says to Lucifer:

Doubtful mind-watcher! Lead me now into That modem world which must develop when We understand the teachings of great men;

When hidden human thoughts can speak with trust Upon the fallen mins’ cursed dust!

Adam believes in the development of the world, and it is probably not just by chance that after the revolutionary drean scene - though nowhere else is there any repetition of anything similar in the entire Tragedy — calls Lucifer doubtful mind-watcher. One would think that this is because he doubts the full truth of the dream scenes through which Lucifer has guided him. The Luci-46