1 Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
In the restaurant of the hotel.
2 What happened 10 days later?
Tereza went to Tomas house but she got ill apparently because of falling in love and stayed there for a week.
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
She considered him as a liberator and wanted to spend most of her time with him
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
She was very ill
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
He allows her to stay even when he dislikes sleeping with other women
6 What does Tereza lie about?
About her actual purpose of staying in Prague
7 What does she really do?
Stays with tomas most of the time.
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
He was married but eventually divorced her wife and was not able to keep his son. The visits he made to his son were very limited and decided to abandon them completely
9 Tomas believes ...`wer live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
That life cannot be predicted and its events are very unexpected, which then tells us how Tomas lives on his life; Without warning and planning.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
By reading the letters of Sabina
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
The soul and the Body
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
To a string quartet of Beethoven in which he is based on the words “Ess Muss Sein” wich metaphorically mean the heaviness of a situation contrasting it with the lightness of Tereza
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
Sabina, in a newspaper
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
To obey Tomas or she was to be shot like many other women around him
15 What does Tereza read?
A letter from Sabina telling Tomas her wish to have sex in her studio and the meaning of it.
16 How does she react to the written material?
She has a dream where it actually happens.
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
He feels jealousy
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
Tereza begins to feel like she is on Tomas’s way and as if she was a burden.
19 Why do you think they marry?
Because they don’t really want to be apart, although at the same time they cannot have a stable relationship where the other one is the most important thing in their lives.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
The Russians are invading Prague and there is no political stability or leader. The people are defenceless against these invaders.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
At Zurich. Because he is happy where he lives and thinks Tereza is too.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
She is not really working for anyone. She takes pictures of the events happening in Prague and then she gives away the films to journalists who use it for their own work.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
To become something higher in life and experience new things.
Thursday, 30 August 2007
Quiz 1 Marithe Malagon
1)Where did Thomas meet Tereza?
At a restaurant
2)What happened 10 days later?
Tereza visited Thomas at his house and stayed there about a week because she was ill.
3) How did Thomas feel about Tereza?
Strange since he was not acustomed of having a woman stay overnight, and this changed his lifestyle.
4)What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Thomas?
She got sick
5)What does Thomas decide to do?
He decides to let her stay with him until she feels better.
6)What does Tereza lie about?
She told Thomas that she came to Prague for buisness.
7)What does she really do?
She goes to Prague to see Thomas.
8)What do we learn about Thomas' past?
He is a womanizer and it's unusual for him to have a stable relationship with them. He is a light character.
9)It shows us that his ideologies of light and heavy, portray him as a light character, one without responsabilities or pressures.
10)How does Tereza break the rules about Thomas?
She comes to his house requiring attention and a comittment and that is the last thiing that Thomas is used to.
11)What two things does Thomas believe are separate entries?
For him body and soul or sex and love are totally different things.
12)What does Thomas compare Tereza to?
A song from Beethoven called, "Ess Muss Sein!" which he describes as heavy music just as Tereza is to his light personality.
13)Who finds Tereza a job?
Sabina gives her a job at a newspaper.
14)What does Tereza dream she must do?
To talk to Sabina
15)What does Tereza read?
The book called "Anna Karenina". Which inspired the name of Terezas and Thomas' pet dog.
16)She likes the book.
17)Thomas feels jelous about Terezas new man friend.
18)Tereza feels like a burden to Thomas.
19) To help Tereza feel secure about their relationship.
20)At that moment in time they are invading Prague.
21) At Zurich
22) A photographer.
At a restaurant
2)What happened 10 days later?
Tereza visited Thomas at his house and stayed there about a week because she was ill.
3) How did Thomas feel about Tereza?
Strange since he was not acustomed of having a woman stay overnight, and this changed his lifestyle.
4)What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Thomas?
She got sick
5)What does Thomas decide to do?
He decides to let her stay with him until she feels better.
6)What does Tereza lie about?
She told Thomas that she came to Prague for buisness.
7)What does she really do?
She goes to Prague to see Thomas.
8)What do we learn about Thomas' past?
He is a womanizer and it's unusual for him to have a stable relationship with them. He is a light character.
9)It shows us that his ideologies of light and heavy, portray him as a light character, one without responsabilities or pressures.
10)How does Tereza break the rules about Thomas?
She comes to his house requiring attention and a comittment and that is the last thiing that Thomas is used to.
11)What two things does Thomas believe are separate entries?
For him body and soul or sex and love are totally different things.
12)What does Thomas compare Tereza to?
A song from Beethoven called, "Ess Muss Sein!" which he describes as heavy music just as Tereza is to his light personality.
13)Who finds Tereza a job?
Sabina gives her a job at a newspaper.
14)What does Tereza dream she must do?
To talk to Sabina
15)What does Tereza read?
The book called "Anna Karenina". Which inspired the name of Terezas and Thomas' pet dog.
16)She likes the book.
17)Thomas feels jelous about Terezas new man friend.
18)Tereza feels like a burden to Thomas.
19) To help Tereza feel secure about their relationship.
20)At that moment in time they are invading Prague.
21) At Zurich
22) A photographer.
quiz 1 Daniela
Quiz 1 Daniela
1 Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
He had first met Tereza in a small Czech town. She had a ccompanied to him to the station and waited for him to board the train.
2 What happened 10 days later?
Tereza visited him and they made love that same day she arrived “That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with a flue”
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
He had an inexplicable love for her, he felt she was a child. She was neither “mistress or wife”. He had an “exaggerating feeling of wanting to be beside her.
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
She came down with a bad blue “stayed a whole week in his flat with a flue”
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
Let her stay with him until she was well again “stayed a whole week in his flat with a flue”.
6 What does Tereza lie about?
She lies about the reason on being in Prague(her visit), she makes tomas believe she’s only there because of business when actually she only came to see him.
7 What does she really do?
She moved with Thomas.
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
That he had an “inaptitude for love”. Probably had any lovers before, being with Tereza was the “most beautiful moment he had experienced”.
9 Tomas believes ...`we live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
Shows Nietches idea of “eternal return” and his ideologies. Links to this situation because he relates the opposition of light and weight. Here it shows a situation where Terezas love and devotion to him is showed as a weight to tomas and the lightness of Tomas love towards Tereza.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
Tereza breaks Tomas rules bby sleeping in Thomas bed which was something unknown and weird for him.
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
His erotic friendships and Tereza.
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?A child whom he had “taken from a bulrush basket that had been daubed with pitch and sent to the riverbank of his bed”.
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
Tomas asks Sabina to get Tereza a job "It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job”.
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
She dreams about Thomas and Sabina making love and that takes her to roam through Thomas stuff.
15 What does Tereza read?
Love letters from Sabina to Thomas which talk about Sabina wanting to make love to him. Here she finds that Sabina is Thomas mistress. “you've been rummaging in my letters…”
16 How does she react to the written material?
She starts having bad dreams and is posseive of Thomas,she doesn’t trust him anymore which takes her to read the letters and talk to Sabina..
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
In a way he get’s jealous because he realizes that she could also have other man in her life, which take Thomas to appreciate her more and actually realize he really needs her.
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?.
Tereza doesn’t trust him. That inexorably takes her to talk to Sabina.. She’s really nervous and when they move out of Prague she has the need to go back . She even has dreams where she feels just as any other of her mistress.
19 Why do you think they marry?
Because Tomas wants to keep her and he does have a need of having her by his side.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?.
There’s war , its being invaded by Russians.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
In Zurich and he decides not to accept it because Tereza is not happy in Zurch, when they move Teresa actually goes back to Prague.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
She works in a journal and takes photos. She takes photo of all the surrounding chaos and she’s told she’s a good photographer and she’s offered to photograph other things but she rejects it because she actually wants to do work that portray an idea.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
She’s not happy in Zurch and she has nothing to do there.
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
When they first met, they were listening to Bethoven
1 Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
He had first met Tereza in a small Czech town. She had a ccompanied to him to the station and waited for him to board the train.
2 What happened 10 days later?
Tereza visited him and they made love that same day she arrived “That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with a flue”
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
He had an inexplicable love for her, he felt she was a child. She was neither “mistress or wife”. He had an “exaggerating feeling of wanting to be beside her.
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
She came down with a bad blue “stayed a whole week in his flat with a flue”
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
Let her stay with him until she was well again “stayed a whole week in his flat with a flue”.
6 What does Tereza lie about?
She lies about the reason on being in Prague(her visit), she makes tomas believe she’s only there because of business when actually she only came to see him.
7 What does she really do?
She moved with Thomas.
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
That he had an “inaptitude for love”. Probably had any lovers before, being with Tereza was the “most beautiful moment he had experienced”.
9 Tomas believes ...`we live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
Shows Nietches idea of “eternal return” and his ideologies. Links to this situation because he relates the opposition of light and weight. Here it shows a situation where Terezas love and devotion to him is showed as a weight to tomas and the lightness of Tomas love towards Tereza.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
Tereza breaks Tomas rules bby sleeping in Thomas bed which was something unknown and weird for him.
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
His erotic friendships and Tereza.
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?A child whom he had “taken from a bulrush basket that had been daubed with pitch and sent to the riverbank of his bed”.
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
Tomas asks Sabina to get Tereza a job "It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job”.
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
She dreams about Thomas and Sabina making love and that takes her to roam through Thomas stuff.
15 What does Tereza read?
Love letters from Sabina to Thomas which talk about Sabina wanting to make love to him. Here she finds that Sabina is Thomas mistress. “you've been rummaging in my letters…”
16 How does she react to the written material?
She starts having bad dreams and is posseive of Thomas,she doesn’t trust him anymore which takes her to read the letters and talk to Sabina..
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
In a way he get’s jealous because he realizes that she could also have other man in her life, which take Thomas to appreciate her more and actually realize he really needs her.
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?.
Tereza doesn’t trust him. That inexorably takes her to talk to Sabina.. She’s really nervous and when they move out of Prague she has the need to go back . She even has dreams where she feels just as any other of her mistress.
19 Why do you think they marry?
Because Tomas wants to keep her and he does have a need of having her by his side.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?.
There’s war , its being invaded by Russians.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
In Zurich and he decides not to accept it because Tereza is not happy in Zurch, when they move Teresa actually goes back to Prague.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
She works in a journal and takes photos. She takes photo of all the surrounding chaos and she’s told she’s a good photographer and she’s offered to photograph other things but she rejects it because she actually wants to do work that portray an idea.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
She’s not happy in Zurch and she has nothing to do there.
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
When they first met, they were listening to Bethoven
Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Quiz 1 Zyunzo
1 Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
´He had first met Theresa about three weeks earlier in a small Czech town´
2 What happened 10 days later?
´Ten days later, she paid him a visit. They made love the day she arrived.´
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
´He had come too feel an inexplicable love for this all but complete stranger.’
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
‘She stayed with him for a week, until she was well again then she went back to her town.’
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
‘There, he claimed the suitcase (it was large and enormously heavy) and took it to her home.
6 What does Tereza lie about?
She leaves him, her suitcase contains all her life.
7 What does she really do?
She divorces and takes her son and a 3rd of his money
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
‘Ten years earlierhe had divorced his wife. He celebrated this as other celebrate a marriage’
9 Tomas believes ...`we live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
Eternal return, Thomas feels top compare lifes with past ones, to think about actions, without improvisation.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
Theresa makes Thomas feel attached to her, like committed, he needs to be with her to make her happy.. he wants more freedom.
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
Love relationships and sex
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
‘A child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream.’
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
‘It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza’
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
Theresa dreams she must get naked and be the same as all the girls to avoid being shot by Thomas.
15 What does Tereza read?
She reads a book by Ana Karenina
16 How does she react to the written material?
She finds it unusual, yet she likes it, it was one of the things she liked about Thomas.
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
He feels jealous but also feels good about her because she managed to make her jealous. ‘he found her more beautiful than ever’
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
Theresa is very hurt about it.
19 Why do you think they marry?
I think that Theresa wanted to marry Thomas more than he wanted to marry her and they did it to soothe her pain.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
The soviets are invading.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
Thomas is offered a job in Zurich but doesn’t accept it for Theresa.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
as a professional photographer, Sabina helped her.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
Theresa believes that the only way of moving away from her past is to leave.
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
When Theresa met Thomas at the café, she was listening to Beethoven.
25 What does Tomas feel brought him together with Tereza?
Thomas likes theresa’s innocence, she even compares her to a baby girl left in a river like moses: ‘Tereza was a child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream. He couldn`t very well let a basket with a child in it float down a stormy river’
´He had first met Theresa about three weeks earlier in a small Czech town´
2 What happened 10 days later?
´Ten days later, she paid him a visit. They made love the day she arrived.´
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
´He had come too feel an inexplicable love for this all but complete stranger.’
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
‘She stayed with him for a week, until she was well again then she went back to her town.’
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
‘There, he claimed the suitcase (it was large and enormously heavy) and took it to her home.
6 What does Tereza lie about?
She leaves him, her suitcase contains all her life.
7 What does she really do?
She divorces and takes her son and a 3rd of his money
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
‘Ten years earlierhe had divorced his wife. He celebrated this as other celebrate a marriage’
9 Tomas believes ...`we live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
Eternal return, Thomas feels top compare lifes with past ones, to think about actions, without improvisation.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
Theresa makes Thomas feel attached to her, like committed, he needs to be with her to make her happy.. he wants more freedom.
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
Love relationships and sex
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
‘A child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream.’
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
‘It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza’
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
Theresa dreams she must get naked and be the same as all the girls to avoid being shot by Thomas.
15 What does Tereza read?
She reads a book by Ana Karenina
16 How does she react to the written material?
She finds it unusual, yet she likes it, it was one of the things she liked about Thomas.
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
He feels jealous but also feels good about her because she managed to make her jealous. ‘he found her more beautiful than ever’
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
Theresa is very hurt about it.
19 Why do you think they marry?
I think that Theresa wanted to marry Thomas more than he wanted to marry her and they did it to soothe her pain.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
The soviets are invading.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
Thomas is offered a job in Zurich but doesn’t accept it for Theresa.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
as a professional photographer, Sabina helped her.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
Theresa believes that the only way of moving away from her past is to leave.
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
When Theresa met Thomas at the café, she was listening to Beethoven.
25 What does Tomas feel brought him together with Tereza?
Thomas likes theresa’s innocence, she even compares her to a baby girl left in a river like moses: ‘Tereza was a child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream. He couldn`t very well let a basket with a child in it float down a stormy river’
Quiz 1 Valeria
1. Tomas met Tereza in a hotel restaurant in a small Czech town. "He had first met Tereza about three weeks earlier in a small Czech town..."
2. Ten days later, Tereza pays Tomas a visit. "...waited with him until he boarded the train. Ten days later she paid him a visit."
3. Tomas felt a strange kind of love for her. He felt she was like a child brought to him. "He had come to fell an inexplicable love for this all but complete stranger;she seemed a child to him..."
4. While Tereza is visiting Tomas, she becomes ill and stays with him for a week. "That night she came down with fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu."
5. Tomas decides to look after her. To stay with her. " He kept recalling her lying in bed...He knelt down next to her..."
6. Tereza lies about why she is in Prague. She tries to make Tomas believe she is there looking for a job. "...tried to make him think she had just happened to drop in...she was in Prague on business, perhaps to find a job."
7. She moves from her provincial hotel restaurant to Prague to be with Tomas. "...he immediately realized that the suitcase contained her life...she had left it at the station just until she could offer it to him."
8. We learn that i the past Tomas had been married and when he divorced his wife he found he was better off living the "bachelor's life". "...when he had divorced his wife, he celebrated the event the way others celebrate a marriage...he could be fully himself as a bachelor."
9. Tomas says that we live life like an actor improvising "cold on stage" referring to his actions, to what he does and the way he lives his life. He does, however, think carefully about his long term decisions because he knows he can't come back from those. This links to the concept of eternal return the author talks about in chaoter 1.
10. Tereza breaks Tomas's rules becuase he never saw only one woman and he has never spent the night with any of her mistresses. "The unwritten contract of erotic friendship stipulated that Tomas should exclude all love from his life...He did not want word to get out that Tereza was sleeping at his place: spending the night together was the corpus delicti of love."
11. Tomas believed making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman where two different things. "two separate passions.Not merely different, but opposite."
12. Tomas compares Tereza to a child, a child brought to him. "she seemed a child...someone had put in a basket and sent downstream...to the riverbank of his bed."
13. Sabina found Tereza a job because Tomas asked her to. "It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza in Prague."
14. Tereza dreams she watches Tomas and Sabina have sex. "Hoping to alleviate the pain...she jabbed needles under her fingernails."
15.Tereza reads the letters Sabina has sent to Tomas. "'So you've been rummaging in my letters!' She did not deny it."
16. She doesn't trust him and it makes her suffer. That's why she dreams she can see what Sabina talk about in her letters.
17.He feels that Tereza could be with anyone else, that Tomas wasn't really special. He sees her more beautiful than ever. "Not until late that night, at home, did he admit to her he was jealous."
18. Tereza sufferes more and more, and this is reflected in her dreams. She is nervous and jealous, though she tries to conceal it as best she can and "to believe waht Tomas told her." Tomas on the other hand keeps seeing Tereza's image when being with other women and so discovers he can only make love to them when he is drunk.
19.I think they get married because they don't want to suffer anymore. Or at leaste Tomas did not want Tereza to keep suffereng and so decides to break his own rules and marry her. Tomas loves her in a very strange way, though he is not dependent of her. "To assuage Tereza's sufferings, he married her... and gave her a puppy."
20. Prague is being invaded by Russians. "...his country was occupied by Russian tanks."
21. Tomas is offered a job in Zürich. He rejects it because he believes Tereza is happy in Prague, photographing the occupation. "If Tomas rejected the offer, it was for Tereza's sake...She had spent the whole first week of the occupation in a trance almost resemblinghappiness...roaming the streets with her camara..."
22. At this point, Tereza is a photographer and sells her pictures to other journalists. "...she would hand the rolls of film to foreign journalists, who actually fought over them."
23. Tereza found happiness facing danger. Now that the Russians were backing out, she had nothing to dedicate herself to and so she wanted to look for it somewhere else. "...days she walked through the streets of Prague taking pictures of Russians and looking danger in the face were the best of her life."
24. Beethoven makes Tomas think of Tereza because it was her who "induced him to buy records of Beethoven..." Also, one of Beethoven's quartets has a movment based on two motives: Must it be? It must be!
25. Tomas feels compassion brought him back to Tereza. He couldn't stand the thought of Tereza living alone in the occupied Prague. "But how long could he have been tortures by compassion? All his life? A year? Or a month? Or only a week?"
2. Ten days later, Tereza pays Tomas a visit. "...waited with him until he boarded the train. Ten days later she paid him a visit."
3. Tomas felt a strange kind of love for her. He felt she was like a child brought to him. "He had come to fell an inexplicable love for this all but complete stranger;she seemed a child to him..."
4. While Tereza is visiting Tomas, she becomes ill and stays with him for a week. "That night she came down with fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu."
5. Tomas decides to look after her. To stay with her. " He kept recalling her lying in bed...He knelt down next to her..."
6. Tereza lies about why she is in Prague. She tries to make Tomas believe she is there looking for a job. "...tried to make him think she had just happened to drop in...she was in Prague on business, perhaps to find a job."
7. She moves from her provincial hotel restaurant to Prague to be with Tomas. "...he immediately realized that the suitcase contained her life...she had left it at the station just until she could offer it to him."
8. We learn that i the past Tomas had been married and when he divorced his wife he found he was better off living the "bachelor's life". "...when he had divorced his wife, he celebrated the event the way others celebrate a marriage...he could be fully himself as a bachelor."
9. Tomas says that we live life like an actor improvising "cold on stage" referring to his actions, to what he does and the way he lives his life. He does, however, think carefully about his long term decisions because he knows he can't come back from those. This links to the concept of eternal return the author talks about in chaoter 1.
10. Tereza breaks Tomas's rules becuase he never saw only one woman and he has never spent the night with any of her mistresses. "The unwritten contract of erotic friendship stipulated that Tomas should exclude all love from his life...He did not want word to get out that Tereza was sleeping at his place: spending the night together was the corpus delicti of love."
11. Tomas believed making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman where two different things. "two separate passions.Not merely different, but opposite."
12. Tomas compares Tereza to a child, a child brought to him. "she seemed a child...someone had put in a basket and sent downstream...to the riverbank of his bed."
13. Sabina found Tereza a job because Tomas asked her to. "It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza in Prague."
14. Tereza dreams she watches Tomas and Sabina have sex. "Hoping to alleviate the pain...she jabbed needles under her fingernails."
15.Tereza reads the letters Sabina has sent to Tomas. "'So you've been rummaging in my letters!' She did not deny it."
16. She doesn't trust him and it makes her suffer. That's why she dreams she can see what Sabina talk about in her letters.
17.He feels that Tereza could be with anyone else, that Tomas wasn't really special. He sees her more beautiful than ever. "Not until late that night, at home, did he admit to her he was jealous."
18. Tereza sufferes more and more, and this is reflected in her dreams. She is nervous and jealous, though she tries to conceal it as best she can and "to believe waht Tomas told her." Tomas on the other hand keeps seeing Tereza's image when being with other women and so discovers he can only make love to them when he is drunk.
19.I think they get married because they don't want to suffer anymore. Or at leaste Tomas did not want Tereza to keep suffereng and so decides to break his own rules and marry her. Tomas loves her in a very strange way, though he is not dependent of her. "To assuage Tereza's sufferings, he married her... and gave her a puppy."
20. Prague is being invaded by Russians. "...his country was occupied by Russian tanks."
21. Tomas is offered a job in Zürich. He rejects it because he believes Tereza is happy in Prague, photographing the occupation. "If Tomas rejected the offer, it was for Tereza's sake...She had spent the whole first week of the occupation in a trance almost resemblinghappiness...roaming the streets with her camara..."
22. At this point, Tereza is a photographer and sells her pictures to other journalists. "...she would hand the rolls of film to foreign journalists, who actually fought over them."
23. Tereza found happiness facing danger. Now that the Russians were backing out, she had nothing to dedicate herself to and so she wanted to look for it somewhere else. "...days she walked through the streets of Prague taking pictures of Russians and looking danger in the face were the best of her life."
24. Beethoven makes Tomas think of Tereza because it was her who "induced him to buy records of Beethoven..." Also, one of Beethoven's quartets has a movment based on two motives: Must it be? It must be!
25. Tomas feels compassion brought him back to Tereza. He couldn't stand the thought of Tereza living alone in the occupied Prague. "But how long could he have been tortures by compassion? All his life? A year? Or a month? Or only a week?"
Tuesday, 28 August 2007
Quiz 1 Esteban
Answers to quiz 1
1. Tomas met Tereza during a medicine congress in a small Czech town: “He had first met Tereza in a small Czech town.”(p6) She was her waitress in the café from the hotel he was staying in.
2. 10 days later Tereza goes to Tomas` apartment and they make love: “Ten days later she paid him a visit. They made love the day she arrived.” (p6)
3. Tomas felt an instant love for her: “He had come to feel an inexplicable love for all but complete stranger”. (p6)
4. While Tereza was visiting Tomas she gets sick: “That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu”. (p6)
5. Tomas decides to stay with her and take care of her for “a whole week”.
6. Tereza lies about her motivation to come to Prague. She says she came to work .“ She was in Prague for business… perhaps to find a job” (9)
7. The reason Tereza really goes to Prague is to “offer her life to Tomas”
8. We learn that Tomas divorced his wife ten years earlier and that he becomes a bachelor. “Ten years earlier, when he had divorced his wife, he celebrated the event the way others celebrate a marriage. He understood he was not born to live side by side with any woman and could only be fully himself as a bachelor.”
9. Tomas` philosophy about life being a vivid improvisation without a previous rehearsal, is a reflection of his actions. That is why he thinks about his long term decisions and feelings, he knows there is no turning back once he has made them. “ We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come”. This also relates to the concept of eternal return mentioned in chapter 1.
10. Tereza breaks Tomas’ rules when she makes him have sentimental attachments towards her (he spends the night with her) and therefore, making him feel the urge to see her often. “The important thing is to abide the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in a quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.” (P12)
11. Tomas believes that sex and love relationships are two different entities.
12. Tomas compares Tereza to a “child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream.”
13. Sabina finds Tereza a job: “It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza”
14. In her dream Tereza must not allow Tomas to leave her in her room. “…convinced in her sleep that he meant to live her for good and she had to stop him.” In another dream she must stand in the corner of room while Tomas made love to Sabina. “ The sight of it caused Tereza intolerable suffering.” In another dream she is surrounded by naked woman and she must get naked too in order to stop Thomas from shooting her.
15. Tereza is reading Ana Karenina. “She had a thick book under her arm. It was Ana Karenina.”
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17. When Tomas sees Tereza with her male friend feels jealous but at the same time proud of his Tereza, her beautiful and sweet Tereza. “Not until later that night did he admit to her he was jealous”. “Tomas found her more beautiful than ever.”
18. Tomas infidelity affects their relationship because it hurts Tereza. “But her jealousy thus tamed by day the burst forth all the more savagely in her dreams, each of which ended in a wail he could silence only by waking her”.
19. They marry in order to “assuage Tereza`s sufferings”.
20. Prague is taken over by the soviets
21. Tomas gets offered a job in Zurich, Switzerland but he rejects it “for Tereza’s sake.”
22. At this point Tereza is working as a photographer journalist.
23. Tereza decides to leave to move away from her past.
24. Beethoven relates to Tomas`s thoughts because his music was being played at the café where he met Tereza.
25. Tomas feel that Tereza innoncence is what brought them together. “Tereza was a child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream. He couldn`t very well let a basket with a child in it float down a stormy river”
1. Tomas met Tereza during a medicine congress in a small Czech town: “He had first met Tereza in a small Czech town.”(p6) She was her waitress in the café from the hotel he was staying in.
2. 10 days later Tereza goes to Tomas` apartment and they make love: “Ten days later she paid him a visit. They made love the day she arrived.” (p6)
3. Tomas felt an instant love for her: “He had come to feel an inexplicable love for all but complete stranger”. (p6)
4. While Tereza was visiting Tomas she gets sick: “That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu”. (p6)
5. Tomas decides to stay with her and take care of her for “a whole week”.
6. Tereza lies about her motivation to come to Prague. She says she came to work .“ She was in Prague for business… perhaps to find a job” (9)
7. The reason Tereza really goes to Prague is to “offer her life to Tomas”
8. We learn that Tomas divorced his wife ten years earlier and that he becomes a bachelor. “Ten years earlier, when he had divorced his wife, he celebrated the event the way others celebrate a marriage. He understood he was not born to live side by side with any woman and could only be fully himself as a bachelor.”
9. Tomas` philosophy about life being a vivid improvisation without a previous rehearsal, is a reflection of his actions. That is why he thinks about his long term decisions and feelings, he knows there is no turning back once he has made them. “ We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come”. This also relates to the concept of eternal return mentioned in chapter 1.
10. Tereza breaks Tomas’ rules when she makes him have sentimental attachments towards her (he spends the night with her) and therefore, making him feel the urge to see her often. “The important thing is to abide the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in a quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.” (P12)
11. Tomas believes that sex and love relationships are two different entities.
12. Tomas compares Tereza to a “child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream.”
13. Sabina finds Tereza a job: “It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza”
14. In her dream Tereza must not allow Tomas to leave her in her room. “…convinced in her sleep that he meant to live her for good and she had to stop him.” In another dream she must stand in the corner of room while Tomas made love to Sabina. “ The sight of it caused Tereza intolerable suffering.” In another dream she is surrounded by naked woman and she must get naked too in order to stop Thomas from shooting her.
15. Tereza is reading Ana Karenina. “She had a thick book under her arm. It was Ana Karenina.”
16.
17. When Tomas sees Tereza with her male friend feels jealous but at the same time proud of his Tereza, her beautiful and sweet Tereza. “Not until later that night did he admit to her he was jealous”. “Tomas found her more beautiful than ever.”
18. Tomas infidelity affects their relationship because it hurts Tereza. “But her jealousy thus tamed by day the burst forth all the more savagely in her dreams, each of which ended in a wail he could silence only by waking her”.
19. They marry in order to “assuage Tereza`s sufferings”.
20. Prague is taken over by the soviets
21. Tomas gets offered a job in Zurich, Switzerland but he rejects it “for Tereza’s sake.”
22. At this point Tereza is working as a photographer journalist.
23. Tereza decides to leave to move away from her past.
24. Beethoven relates to Tomas`s thoughts because his music was being played at the café where he met Tereza.
25. Tomas feel that Tereza innoncence is what brought them together. “Tereza was a child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream. He couldn`t very well let a basket with a child in it float down a stormy river”
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