The Unbearable Lightness Of Being ✔

Tomas's wife. She represents "Weight." She views sex and love as inseparable and suffers from Tomas’s infidelities.

Not just pity, but the "co-sentiment" of feeling another's suffering. This is the "weight" that binds Tomas to Tereza. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

A breakdown of the (the dog Karenin, the bowler hat) The political commentary on Communism and the "Great March" Which direction should we go? Tomas's wife

Kundera defines kitsch as the "absolute denial of shit." It is the aesthetic ideal where all the unpleasant aspects of existence are ignored (e.g., political propaganda or overly sentimental art). political propaganda or overly sentimental art).