Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Death in Venice by Thomas Mann's. It needs to be at least 1750 words.Download file to see previous pages... This masterpiece (Death in Venice) of T

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Death in Venice by Thomas Mann's. It needs to be at least 1750 words.

This masterpiece (Death in Venice) of Thomas Mann, the Nobel Laureate was published just before the World War I. During that period Mann was 36 years old, and already a celebrity in the literary circles (globally). The protagonist of the story is Gustav von Aschenbach. Like Maan, he is a successful writer. When he is losing his youth to time and age, he travels to Venice to search for spirituality. In the course of time he is physically attracted to a young boy from Poland named, Tazdio. While waiting in the dining hall of the hotel, Aschenbach glances at Tadzio for the very first time, which turns into fatal attraction in the days to come. The little boy becomes his object of desire, and is showered with affection, never shown by the protagonist towards anyone earlier. He stalks the lad in the streets forgetting his own prestige and position in the society. This desire for the boy leads to his loss of dignity, and finally he succumbs to death after encountering cholera. The themes of beauty and decay have been used by the author to balance the indulgence of the protagonist in Dionysian sensuality in the story of Death in Venice. The Tension between Beauty and Decay in the Novella The protagonist Gustav von Aschenbach, becomes obsessed passionately with the beautiful appearance of a little boy belonging to a polish family in Venice. This illegitimate attraction finally results in his downfall, and paves the way for the death of the writer. The poetic temperament of Aschenbach makes him fall for the beauty which he relates to his aesthetic sensibility. He is vulnerable to artistic beauty and cannot resist falling for the young lad. He allows the beauty of Tadzio to move him and his hidden desires. The poet is engulfed with passion and lust and craves to look younger himself. Aschenbach, who has spent fifty summers on this earth, tries to paint his hair and face to match his young object of amour. He visits beauticians, but all these desperate attempts make him look cheap and funny. He has been ageing gracefully, but after his visit to Venice he decays along with the city. He ends his literary pursuits and life in addictive love for the beautiful young boy. His love is not at all welcome by society and finally withers with him. Here is he chooses beauty he has to move towards decay as well. Moving away from the death and decay would mean separation from the object of his love or the physical beauty of the young boy and he is not ready for this. The city of Venice is attacked by the epidemic, cholera and he smells disinfectant at places but does not pay much heed. He decides not to warn the boy and his family despite contemplating the same initially because he does not want them to leave the hotel. One day after following the boy for a long time in the scorching heat he eats some over ripe strawberries and then sits in a vacant area of the street, his unapproachable dignity completely shattered by the pursuance of his love. The Larger Statement of Mann: Value, or Lack of it in Beauty The tale is a bit uncomfortable and bizarre in the sense that it crosses the borderline of value to touch beauty. The interest showered by a middle-aged man on a little boy is a bit tough to digest by the conservative reader.