Metaphor Of Tuberculosis And Romantic Aesthetics

The aesthetic romanticization of tuberculosis was concentrated around the 19th century,and the feature of romantic aesthetic tuberculosis was still reflected and expressed in Western literature until the 20th century.The romanticization of tuberculosis as an aesthetic image has gone through four stages.The process is related to the particularity of tuberculosis mutations,manifested as infectiousness and deliberate misunderstanding,lethality and survival grief,chronic disease and emotional accumulation,substitution and female aesthetics.Five aspects of rest and survival.As the subject of aesthetics,tuberculosis writers experience survival and individual value in the emotional conflict and dailyization of disease experience,and at the same time turn to the heart to deny weakness,resist the test of life time limit with creative passion;the creation content implies physical characteristics,The pale complexion of tuberculosis patients metaphors the heart,the image of autumn leaves metaphors the diseased body,and the theme of death conveys the individual’s self-discovery;the creative style is marked as the influence of tuberculosis,including both the formation of delicate style and the transformation of melancholic style.The textual writing of tuberculosis as an aesthetic object focuses on expressing the aesthetic ideals of romanticism.The aesthetic image of tuberculosis figures embodies the aesthetic taste of the era of white and thinness and the ideal femininity under the gaze of men.The writing of tuberculosis characters’ desires is alienated by others.The self-recognition of the subject of life and the metaphor of modern social life,the talent of tuberculosis characters dissecting the lung imagination and the worship of genius,alluding to the preservation of the aristocratic spirit beyond the scale of modernity.The etiology of people suffering from tuberculosis attributed tuberculosis to romantic love or the inclusion of those who could not be loved into tuberculosis patients.The behavior of tuberculosis patients to pursue romantic love represents the freedom spirit against the secular and the desire to pursue personal happiness in life.The death scene of the patient presents both personalization and emotionality.Through the romanticism’s metaphorical expression of the tuberculosis era and people,it analyzes the appearance of romanticism’s aesthetic orientation and attempts to criticize modernity,and sees the true existence of mankind from the point of view of disease.