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Zanga admonishes him: Look at that beard, look at his hair. But Rustan says:
Du hast recht, und es ist wahrAber erst nur glich er ihm,Jeder Blick, mit neuer Lüge,Zeigt mir anders seine Züge.Was je greulich und verhasst,All in sich sein Anschaun fasst.
But who may this man be who looks like Osmin to a hair and yet is not Osmin? Obviously none other than the deceased father looking like his son Camillo. Therefore he appears with a deathly pale face, black beard and hair, and bare limbs. The big brown mantle which plays such a strong role is the purple mantle discolored by the dream, the symbol of authority. In the dream the king always means the father. It is he, the father, who wears the purple mantle, symbol of great power.
Originally Grillparzer had planned to write a drama under the title The Purple Mantle. The mantle which, as Hock has pointed out, plays a great rôle in Grillparzer's artistic creations has also played a great role in Pausania's drama and, as stated, he intended at first to call it The Purple Mantle. Now we understand why the cliff man resembles so closely Osmin and shows the latter's hateful traits. It is his antagonist Camillo, who shows the physical trait of his hateful father, and who now rouses Rustan by defiantly drinking full drafts out of the spring (of love?).