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A 3 page paper which examines how the author creates a linkage between beauty and death in the text. No additional sources are used.
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Throughout many of his works, German-born author Thomas Mann expressed ambivalence about beauty, as if it was little more than an intoxicating illusion. In what many consider his
greatest masterpiece, Death in Venice, first published in 1912, Mann takes every opportunity to incorporate a linkage between beauty and death within the plot. It is almost as if
the author is warning readers against being seduced and consequently deceived by beauty. Although the artist strives to create beauty as a way of achieving immortality, as the duality
in Death in Venice reveals, nothing can make time in the mortal existence stand still. More often than not, the moments when he experiences the greatest beauty are followed
up immediately thereafter by the ugly contrasting images of death. The novels protagonist is an aging middle-aged writer named Gustav Aschenbach (or von Aschenbach) decides to travel to different lands
in hopes of stimulating his creative imagination. Up until this time, he has lived a life of moral obligation and passively admiring beauty from afar. Gustav then chooses
to experience what he regards as life in its highest form; where better to do so than in the spectacular canal city of Venice? Mann wastes little time in
linking Aschenbachs desire for beauty, played out mostly in elaborate fantasies, with the reality of death, writing, "When you looked into this fictional world of Aschenbachs, you saw the elegant
self-control that conceals the biological decay... you saw yellowed ugliness... but nevertheless able to rise to dominance in the realm of beauty" (8). En route to his destination,
Aschenbach takes an interest in one of the travelers, nattily dressed in a colorful suit, but he soon comes to realize that what he has mistaken for a handsome and
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