Perhaps the most peculiar aspect of Claudel's poetry is that all the great scenes, in which the individual fate of the main characters undergoes a development, always culminate in an ethnological, geographical, or astronomical perspective, just as all grand political and cosmic considerations remain tied to individual destinies. For Rodrigo is one of those who cannot save themselves except by redeeming the entire multitude that is shaped by their presence. Thus, there is no individual fate here that is not simultaneously social and world-historical.