"Heart of beauty in everyone." This proverb says: Beauty is the most universal value of human beings. In the real world, no value can be widely recognized like "beauty." Although beauty has differences in nationality, class, and time, etc, the pursuit of beauty is the common interest of the entire human race. Beauty is an undisputed fact. From nature of man, love and need of beauty is an instinct. Human innately has a nature of pursuing beauty. However, “innate inherent” can only be the nature of “self-transcendence”, and does not indicate the source of the superhuman and surreal. Specifically, the realistic basis of the so-called “innate nature” is “practical nature”, that is, the nature of human existence and the nature of activities. In this way, the spirit of human pursuit of “beauty” is the embodiment of human nature, and this nature is generated and embodied in human practice.

This article will analyze the meaning of the “beauty” image represented by the young Tadzio himself in Death in Venice from the perspective of aesthetics. Combined with the aesthetic knowledge. It is further analyzed the influence of Tadzio, the young boy, and the life of Aschenbach trapped in the darkness.

Death in Venice is a famous work by Thomas Mann. The work spreads the ancient Greek Aeschy-style classical tragedy spirit, describing the passion of a writer who broke out after meeting the young boy in Venice; his rationality, dignity and knowledge is defeated in the pursuit of beauty. After the advent of the novel, many writers have analyzed this novel more or less, like in two texts, three artists and a theme - from the novel Death in Venice and the movie. In the modern dilemma of creation, the author combines the novel to analyze the real dilemma of Thomas Man himself. In Typical and Mythical —Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, the author affirmed the literary status of Thomas Mann’s work. There are also some articles are from the aesthetic point of view of the death of Venice, such as the Death of Narrative Aesthetics and Gender Identity Dilemma and Death in Venice: the Entanglement Between Beauty and Reason. This article will analyze the influence of Tadzio’s image on the protagonist’s forgetful life and death in the novel from the aesthetic point of juvenile imagery.

The West has pursued the “beauty” for more than two thousand years, and has its own complete system and context. However, China’s concern about “beauty” started very late compared to the West, and it was also directly caused by the introduction of Western aesthetic thoughts. In the process of exploring the essence of beauty, Chinese theoretical circles have always used Western standards to understand “beauty” and to use conceptualized and abstract words to stipulate “beauty.” In a certain sense, it can have “beauty” in a certain sense—the specific “beauty” is not the essence of beauty. The phenomenon of beauty can be felt by people’s senses, but the essence of beauty is to be reflected and understood with the soul.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

Death in Venice is a novella written by the German author Tomas Mann. The work presents a great writer who suffers writer's block visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed, by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Though he never speaks to the boy, much less touches him, the writer finds himself drawn deep into ruinous inward passion; meanwhile, and finally, the writer himself, succumbs to a cholera plague in Venice.

This paper will analyze the meaning of the “beauty” image represented by the young Tadzio himself in the work from the perspective of aesthetics and the influence of Tadzio on the life of Aschenbach who is trapped in the darkness.

Books and academic journals in schools and public libraries, and related online resources will be used to analyze the data. By reading a large amount of information will the paper be written.

The first part of the paper mainly introduces the relationship between the author and the work, and clarifies the main content of the novel. The second part introduces the embodiment and important position symbolic meaning of aesthetics in foreign literary works. The third part, combined with the analysis of the novel text, further explores the significance of the existence of the beautiful image represented by the young boy in the novel and the influence brought to the protagonist. Finally, summarize the full text.

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[2]Lin,Chien-Chun.The Interweavement and Conflict of Rationality and Sensation-The Travel of Fate in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice[M].Euramerica.2018(6):223-266