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This 8 page paper considers the complex relationship between Tomas and Tereza in the novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Tereza, and their complex relationship. Discussion Tomas should be a despicable character because he is an inveterate womanizer. Through the course of the book he has sexual relations with something
like 200 women, even while hes married or involved with Tereza. However, its impossible to dislike him because he is fascinated by women and the differences among them; when it
comes to all the women in the world, "... we might say that there is one-millionth part dissimilarity to nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine millionths part similarity.
Tomas was obsessed by the desire to discover and appropriate that one-millionth part; he saw it as the core of his obsession" (Kundera 199). He wasnt obsessed with women, but
with that one-millionth part in each of them "... that makes a woman dissimilar to others of her sex" (Kundera 200). He chooses to know women through their sexual proclivities
rather than through their taste in art or literature because it is an intensely private act: it is not "accessible in public," so it "must be conquered" (Kundera 200). In
earlier times, that conquest could take months or years but even today, when the time from initial meeting to the first sexual encounter is very short, "sexuality seems still to
be a strongbox hiding the mystery of a womans I" (Kundera 200). So, because he is truly fascinated with discovering the subtle differences among women, Tomas is not the cad
he might be otherwise. Tomass endless fascination with women might help to explain the very different views he and Tereza have of sex. For Tomas, the pleasure that comes
with sex is in fact secondary to the intimate knowledge he gains from "solving" the mystery of each woman. He is a scientist (a doctor), and he as such is
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