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Linh Nguyen
Dr. Hardy
Eng 209
February 11 2014
Paper Title
The girl with the golden eyes: These enigmatic and disturbing forays into the margins of
madness, sexuality, and creativity are among the great works of the 19th century nction.
The 1st edition of the English of The Unkown Masterpiece to record the important
variants, which are crucial to the interpretation of Balzacs presentation of the ambiguous
relationship between art and erotic desire.
Death from venice: he dream Aschenbach has on the night before he lets himself be
dandied with hair-dye, make-up, etc. also repeats the motifs of this initial vision. This dream
marks Aschenbachs ultimate loss of self-mastery. See Death 125-29.
This dream describes a Dionysian revelry, drunkenness, intoxication, dancing, music, the
uuu sound of Tadzios name, sexuality, lust, the obscene symbol of the godhead, i.e. the
phallus. This dreamt orgy ends with Aschenbachs awareness of the debauchery and delirium of
doom (129). He succumbs to Eros, but simultaneously also to Thanatos, to death.
The leitmotivic structure of the text: from the musical practice of Richard Wagner. Also
similar to the thematic texture of Freuds dream-texts, the web of associations and connections that
analysis turns out.
Death from the Underground: By their lthyness, furtiveness, fecundity, and
destructiveness, rats serve to represent the narrators irrepressible sexual drives-his homsexual
prospensities, his joyless contacts with prostitutes, and such other unnamed ugly actions taht
all, perhaps, commit. The impulses indeed so completely dominate the narrator that sometimes he
becomes, symbolically, a rat himsel, as when he imagine himsel sinking into the mire of the
psychic sewer and about to be engulfed altogether. (symbolism of rats and mice in notes from the
underground).
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Case of Deviant Sexual Expression
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1345579
http://courses.washington.edu/freudlit/Mann.Notes.html
http://www.gradesaver.com/death-in-venice/study-guide/major-themes/
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Works Cited
Flaubert, R. Three Tales. Trans. Robert Baldwick. Estate of Robert Baldwick, 1961. 17-57. Print.
Balzac, D.H. The Girl with the Golden Eyes. Trans. Peter Collier. Oxford Worlds Classics,
1996.67-138. Print.
Mann, Thomas. Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories New York, Vintage Books. Trans.
H.T.owe-Porter. 1954. 3-75. Print.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Notes from the Underground. Worlds Classics. Trans. Jane Kentish. 1991.
7-123. Print.
Stevenson, L.R. Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Edinburg University Press. 2004. Print.