Consumed by Beauty“A sort of delicacy… seriously beyond its year” (25).Life for human beings is dictated by the desire for something more through our experiences. We seek more knowledge, more wealth and more happiness, but everything is infinite like an abyss. Beauty, however, is pure and can be found in the simplest matters of life. Through the novel Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann, Aschenbach works his entire life rigorously day after day seeking more and more until his meeting with Tadzio in Venice. On Tadzio's first visit, Aschenbach falls in love with the child's perfect beauty. For the first time in his life he sees the simplicity of beauty and how perfect it is, yet he is consumed by it. Aschenbach's introduction to beauty takes his mind off the rest of the world. Aschenbach searches for beauty in life, but becomes trapped and consumed by it and distanced from the rest of the world. Tadzio represents beauty and shows Aschenbach the true simplicity of beauty. In Aschenbach's eyes, Tadzio is “a precious artifact of human nature” that reveals true beauty t...