How can I write an essay from the novel "Death in Venice"?

Question: How can I write an essay from the novel "Death in Venice"!?

please, any ideas!? it's for tomorrow, it's for school and I don't know what to write!. It's "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Some of the story's multiple polarities are: the conscious will vs!. passionate drives; discipline vs!. spontaneity; north vs!. south; the Apollonian vs!. the Dionysian; cerebral and lofty art vs!. sensual and inspired art!. In each of the above polarities, the first term refers to Aschenbach's initial state in the story, while the second term represents that toward which he slips over the course of the plot!. Mann suggests, following Freud and Nietzsche, that a balance between opposites must be maintained in order to have a healthy state of mind as an individual, and, on a broader level, to have a healthy culture!. The maintenance of this balance, Mann suggests, is also crucial to the creation of true art!. In those individuals who repress their drives excessively (such as Aschenbach), and in those cultures which repress their sensual, passionate sides (such as turn-of-the-century Western Europe, according to Nietzsche and Mann), it is only a matter of time before that which has been repressed will violently erupt, bringing destruction and ruin!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

focus on his obsession w/ beauty which manifests itself in the boy he stalks, follows!.

talk about Venice being in jeopardy (plague)Www@QuestionHome@Com

<I have no idea, but I need the points!.Www@QuestionHome@Com