Personal Analysis of The Unbearable Lightness of Life

At the beginning of the book, Kundera put forward the idea of eternal reincarnation. If life is infinite reincarnation and infinite repetition, then life becomes a heavy burden. But in fact, life is only once and cannot be repeated, which makes the burden impossible. Life is free, brilliant and bright.

When life is strongly suppressed and people feel the weight even unbearable, people will want to choose the light and avoid the heavy. But when you choose lightness without any weight, people are close to nothingness.

Is the weight biased to the positive side relative to the light? Does light mean a better proportion?

Thomas, the character in the book, is a rigid figure in the choice of light and heavy issues. First of all, between the love that needs to pay attention to responsibility and the dew love that doesn't need to bear any responsibility, he lingers repeatedly. Theresa's appearance and their love are the result of many accidents.

"Whether to persuade her to stay in Prague? This responsibility scares him. "

It is all these accidents that make him want to escape the burden of love, which appears many times in the article: accident, and she is just a child who goes with the flow. Love is undoubtedly beautiful, but Teresa's sensitivity, fragility, sadness and pain have repeatedly tortured him. He can't turn a blind eye. He has to make a choice.

After Teresa ran away from home, the description in Thomas' mind-no one forced him to make a decision ... all this was decided by Teresa herself long ago-shows that when the weight of each pole is lost, people naturally feel a lot easier. But lightness did not make Thomas feel the glory of freedom. On the contrary, he seems depressed and compassionate! In his own words, he felt heavier than ever.

We have reason to believe that this heaviness is not due to responsibility, but to ethereal and excessive nothingness.

On the other hand, because Thomas wrote an article about Oedipus thought, he was caught in a storm about his position and faced with the choice of his career. Either leave your reputation behind, betray your faith, and keep the doctor's job; Or sign your name on words not written by him to show that you have no objection to the authorities. Is it persistence or lingering?

For Thomas, the profession of doctor is undoubtedly a "heavy" end, which is different from the accidental choice of the outside world (love with Teresa). Becoming a doctor is his innate need. But Thomas unexpectedly left the "heavy" end, and he wanted to experience a "light" career: he didn't have to toss and turn for the result of the operation. And he explained himself that he just didn't want to get into trouble.

In his first relaxed new job, he really felt happy. Because work doesn't need to eat or sleep. At the same time, his new job also provides great convenience for his dew love. But happiness is only temporary. Soon, Teresa's sadness and despair brought him back to a solid ground.

On Thomas, the weight is not unbearable, but light!

Teresa's birth was an accident, and her mother didn't like her very much. Teresa's existence changed her mother from a beautiful girl to an ugly old woman without shame. Once, her mother put shame and modesty above everything else. Teresa's beauty made her realize that once youth and beauty no longer existed, and self-discipline became meaningless.

Because of Teresa, she lost her most important thing! She wants Teresa to rot like her!

Teresa grew up in such an environment: her mother always walks around the house in underwear, sometimes even naked; Tell inappropriate jokes to friends, fart in public, and laugh at Teresa's embarrassment. In order to prevent her stepfather from breaking into the locked door when Teresa takes a shower, her mother will swear, "Who do you think you are?"

Mother instilled in her the idea that all people are the same and the body should be despicable.

Teresa certainly doesn't think so. She wants to escape from this world where the flesh is light. When she met Thomas, she felt something outside her body, which made her different from those identical bodies: Teresa felt the crew of her soul washed up on the deck of her body. She found the straw!

After Teresa discovered Thomas' affair, she always dreamed that all women would sing and kneel around Thomas in the center, and they would be shot if they made mistakes. She is afraid that in her cherished love with Thomas, she is no different from others. Just like the world dominated by mothers, all people are the same.

She is always in fear and anxiety. Thomas is so powerful in front of her that she is easily hurt. She is so weak that she wants to escape to the familiar "mother" world and the comfort of physical love.

She did it, but it didn't make her feel the slightest pleasure and relaxation, but it was endless fear. Everything is an illusion, everything is confusing, and the influence of mother (the temptation of physical depravity) is everywhere. Like an occupied country, it seems that nothing has changed, but everything has changed!

Teresa can't stand such a life in which everyone values the body.

Vulgarity is to cater to the secular, lack of self-thinking and self-care, and only know to go with the flow and all sentient beings.

Sabine has nothing to do with kitsch. She pursues independence and the liberation of personal thoughts, and at the same time she is habitually keen on all kinds of "betrayal" because she doesn't want to fix herself in a fixed position and life. She was even excited and excited about her betrayal for independence.

Of course, she also wants to settle down and wait beside a man like other ordinary women. But she was destined not to stay. Such a heavy life, paying attention to responsibility and repeating a boring life, is unbearable for her. On the contrary, the life of wandering (light) is equally disturbing.

Where is her home when her betrayal road comes to an end and nothing can be betrayed in the end? She can't settle down, she can't catch anything, she can only be like a balloon that has been released, so light that it has no weight and floats in the open air with the wind.

Sabine's lover Flantz is a real kitsch. His life follows the rules. Like most people, he studied, took office, got married and had children, and every step was orderly and step by step. Meeting Sabin was an unexpected joy in his life and a condiment for a heavy life. He is eager to live a "chic" life like her, thinking that that is where his real life lies.

He boldly told his wife Sabine's existence and tried to break the shackles of routine life. His life is already too heavy and depressing, and he wants to get rid of it and pursue a more relaxed lifestyle (with Sabin). In the later chapter "The Great March", he also participated in the March influenced by Sabine's style, so-called inspired by her.

As a result, both the real Sabin and the official Sabin parade became bubbles. His life can only be built on a solid foundation. He can't reach an understanding with Sabin.

Generally speaking, the last chapter seems to have nothing to do with the previous part, because it doesn't seem to discuss any issues about lightness and heaviness, but only describes Thomas and Teresa's life away from the edge of the city.

However, in the description of Fran? ois's uppercase pastoral poems and lowercase pastoral poems, the "pastoral poems" represented by two types of characters in Kundera's other works are listed. This is my understanding of the last part:

At the beginning of the book, the concept of eternal reincarnation is thrown out, and the question of lightness and heaviness of life is raised from it. It is mentioned intermittently that there is no eternal reincarnation, and life is only once. We can't verify right or wrong by the number of repetitions, because "once doesn't count". It said that if karenin wasn't a dog,

It must be tired of repeating life ... because human beings can't be happy, because happiness is the desire for repetition. Karenin experienced a short "eternal cycle" in his short life, that is, simple daily repetition.

For karenin, such a life is happy. For Thomas and Teresa, life in the downtown may have been happy, but it doesn't mean that life is unhappy now. Thomas has a saying: "When there is no mission, it is a great relief" (extremely light).

The social life of "kitsch" is a capital pastoral for some people, and "non-kitsch" can be regarded as a lowercase pastoral for a small number of people, although it is not popular.

As for which kind of life is better, happier, lighter and heavier, no one can give an answer, because life is only once, as light as history, and no one can verify its right or wrong.

Once doesn't count