Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and Plato’s Dialogues


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Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and Plato’s Dialogues


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Gustav von Aschenbach, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s Novella, Death in Venice, seems to change his views on the proper relationship between beauty and art in the course of the story. First summarize the development of his different ideas an then compare them to specific theories in both of Plato’s dialogues, the Phaedrus and the Symposium