Tereza
- She does not have a light aspect in her life.
- She wants to see lightness as Tomas does.
- She could be lightness if she was perfect for tomas.
- Her body is the weight for her soul but on the other hand, her body is just a case...nothing
- The veiws on her body being separated from the soul are light, but she makes it heavy.
- Tereza's knowledge of life comes from her experiences and relationships (e.g. her mother and Tereza's opinion about her body) EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE Valeria 2007.
- Her lightness is her innocence
- Tomas's views of life and how she can't see it like that.
- The way Tomas lives his life and feels about her.
- Forced lightness becomes weight!!! ESTEBAN 2007
- Her lightness is her innocence...therefore it becomes weight because she does not know anything.
What is Tereza's unbearable lightness of being?
Lightness for Tereza is being able to. Love making is lightness whilst love is weight.
Tomas is the lightness of the relationship and tereza is weight because she's very attached to her emotions. Tomas on the other hand doesn't take love as serious. Weight is when you actually care and realize waht you are doing, but changes withe the perception of each character.
Tereza sees her body as a cage. This opinion about her body comes from her mother's opinion. Having sex with other people is very difficult to tereza becuase she doesn't see the duality between soul and body..or does she?...Tereza doesn't have a sense of lightness. She wants to be unique and prove her mother wrong (i.e. the book makes her stand out) also this is the way she knew tomas for the first time. Lightness for her is being the perfect person for tomas, her body and her soul to be the only things for tomas to love. She could be lighter is tomas could be satisfied by her and therefore he wouldn't be having afairs. Tereza's wish is for tomas to be more emotionally attached to her. Her soul is lightness but her body is a weight, she hasn't found another person for her soul to be light (also contrasts with her body as being a cage) The weight for her soul is her body. She wants her boy to show how her soul is, she blames her mother about her opinion about her body, therefore she does not accept her body. (e.g. The dream about the pool and the women getting shot). She thinks her soul is being restaint by her body therefore she can't open completely to Tomas. After she has sex with another man, she realizes she likes her body. Towards the end of the second "soul and body" she finds that body and soul are two different things therefore becomes more light.
Valeria es un genio.
Essay questions part 2:
1 How does the soul and body Affect Tereza`s perceptions of `The Unbearable Lightness of Being`?
2 What does the Unbearable Lightness of Being mean to Tomas and Tereza?
WEIGHT
Tereza
- Everything in Tereza's life can be related to weight.
- She takes everything very seriously, she is overwhelmed.
- She never learned that there are certain things in life which are not as important as others. This makes her hang on to everything, making her carry their weight with her.
- The only contrast with the weight she has created for herself is the lightness of her soul.
- Her soul becomes "weight" because it is anchored to her body. It can't explore the lightness it is meant to represent.
- "Forced lightness becomes weight" (Esteban 2007) She thinks too much on achieving "lightness" that her thoughts actually become "weight". She can't 'go with the flow'.
- Tereza wants to find "lightness" by following Tomas' way of life. She doesn't realise that following Tomas and not finding her own form of "lightness", Tomas has become a 'weight' for her soul.
- How does weight affect Tereza's goal of being "light"?
- To what extent does the relationship with Tomas affect Tereza's idea of "lightness and weight"?
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