Week 8 assignment: essay – interrelationships reflection apa format | Applied Sciences homework help
- Does participating with these paintings and reflecting on their achievement help you understand and, in turn, enjoy dance and music?
EXPERIENCING Death in Venice: Three Versions Read Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. This is a haunting tale—one of the greatest short stories of the twentieth century—of a very disciplined, famous writer who, in his fifties, is physically and mentally exhausted. Gustav von Aschenbach seeks rest by means of a vacation, eventually going to Venice. On the beach there, he becomes obsessed with the beauty of a boy. Despite Aschenbach’s knowledge of a spreading epidemic of cholera, he remains, and being afraid the boy will be taken away, withholds information about the epidemic from the boy’s mother. Casting aside restraint and shame, Aschenbach even attempts, with the help of a barber, to appear youthful again. Yet Aschenbach, a master of language, never speaks to the boy, nor can he find words to articulate the origins of his obsession and love. Collapsing in his chair with a heart attack, he dies as he watches the boy walking off into the sea. Try to see Visconti’s film, starring Dirk Bogarde. And listen to Britten’s opera with the libretto by Myfanwy Piper, as recorded by London Records, New York City, and starring Peter Pears.