But at this point Augustin turned savage as well:
Lyamshin’s one of the inner members of the society. I can see his musical composition to be a sort of metaphor for their planned revolution and rise to domination: the Marsellaise is the current government that they plan to overthrow, and of course the Marsellaise is going to disregard Augustin, who is symbolic of revolution, as just some annoying bug. Until Augustin gets bigger and stronger and eventually the Marsellaise itself becomes confused with how Augustin is taking over the score, until is surrenders and Augustin is now the primary theme. Now it makes sense that after gaining power, Augustin turns savage as well, because these revolutionists won’t have order in their rule, but radical liberalism, socialism, nihilism, brutalism, and chaos.
