He is disciplined, prides himself on self-control, and represses all irrational and emotional desires. In the beginning of the novella, we see how Aschenbach is an artist of Apollonian principles. Using these concepts, it is easy to understand Aschenbach’s internal conflict in Death in Venice as a struggle between the Dionysian and Apollonian. He also believed that the ideal person needed to maintain a balance of the qualities embodied by the two Gods (Taylor). Nietzsche claimed that the conflict between emotion (Dionysus) and reason (Apollo) was the cause of the age of Greek Tragedy. Therefore, the Apollonian elements are those such as form, reason, and self-control, where the Dionysian are much the opposite: destruction, chaos, emotion, irrational (Atassi). Nietzsche first coined these terms in his work, The Birth of a Tragedy (Taylor).In Greek mythology, Dionysus is the God of the Earth and Apollo the God of the Sun. 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.
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