How does Thomas Mann show the conflict as well as synthesis of the Dionysian and Apollonian elements in his novella Death in Venice? Use illustrations from the text. Or, Discuss the Dionysian and Apollonian elements in Death in Venice.

 

How does Thomas Mann show the conflict as well as synthesis of the Dionysian and Apollonian elements in his novella Death in Venice? Use illustrations from the text.

Or, 

Discuss the Dionysian and Apollonian elements in Death in Venice.

 

One manner in which to examine the deterioration of Gustav Von Aschenbach in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice is through the conflict of the Dionysian versus the Apollonian. Nietzsche first coined these terms in his work, The Birth of a Tragedy. In Greek mythology, Dionysus is the God of the Earth and Apollo the God of the Sun. Therefore, the Apollonian elements are those such as form, reason, and self-control, where the Dionysian are much the opposite: destruction, chaos, emotion, irrational. Nietzsche claimed that the conflict between emotion (Dionysus) and reason (Apollo) was the cause of the age of Greek Tragedy. He also believed that the ideal person needed to maintain a balance of the qualities embodied by the two Gods.

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