SOUL AND BODY

Things that affect the body

Food, genes, ages, mind, excercise, beauty, health, surgical alterations, temperature, HEAVY METAL, environment, culture, the soul, feelings, religion, social pressure, social standards, sexuality, the media, alcohol, fashion, voice, music, ideals.

Things that affect the Soul

Family, art, health, sexuality, love, music, conciousness, environment, your needs as an individual, energy, karma, social pressure, past experiences, ideologies, spirituality, culture, disasters, war, relationships breaking up, famine, your body, other people, friendships, love.

TERESA S Body

She looks back to her mother and her body isnt anything. Its just a shell, nothing more. She examines herself because she sees another woman inside her. She wishes not to have those imperfections, however she begins to explore her body and Thomas helps her out in this task. She wants to view her body as Thomas does with his own. The sex that Thomas and Teresa have is not just sex it is also love. But with other people sex is just sex and there is no feeling of love whatsoever. Viewing the body as he does will bring them closer together.

Teresas Soul

She becomes influenced by the political influence of the war, the soviet war. The soviet invasion has a great impact on her soul as her way of life. Her mother affects her soul as well, the relationship, the hatred of her mother for her has made her negative and has affected the view of the world that Teresa has, as well as clouding her vision. Tomas affects her very much because she only wants to have him close but Tomas is not always around.

Her aspiritions affect her soul as well. When she begins to study photography she starts to discover the beauty in art. She motivates herself to have a cultural background, going to concerts and reading with the end of getting away of her past and especially from her mother because her inability to understand that she is her daughter.

His ideologies in love, sex and relationships.Tomas has forced his ideologies on her, she is at the moment a biproduct of the situation. Tomas makes her feel like unwanted and jealous. This does not create a positive effect on her mind. She is affected by her needs, the need of being with Tomas, the need of staying away from her mother and the need to understand the political situation and the beauty as well as the horrors that this war has caused to her land.

Tereza

She sees the body as a shell that is


Tomas

Tomas sees the body as a tool that complements his soul.

Here too perhaps is his passion for surgery and his passion for women coming together. Even with his mistress he could never quite put down the imaginary scalpel since he longed to take possession something deep inside, he needed to slit them open. (page 193)

Tomas draws reference to his role as a surgeon, making corelations between love making and surgery. The difference between being a surgeon and having sex is that by having sex, he does not need to use his imaginary scalpel. Also, it is a way of getting to know the human `I`. What makes a person an individual.

´He experienced a brief but intense feeling of blasphemy, then again, that was what attracted him to it! That was the "ess muss sein!" rooted deep inside him and it was planted there not by chance, not by the sciatica nor by anything external´ pg 187

´He had no desire to uncover anything in Tereza, she had come to him uncovered. He had made love to her before he could grap for the imaginary scalpel he used to open the prostate body of the world. Before he could start wonering what she would be like when they made love, he loved her´2003

Tomas`s Soul

Tomas deals with situations by being `light` and therefore spends little time thinking about `heavy` such as his soul.