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Part 6, Chapter 26
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Time, Happiness, and Eternal Return
Lightness, Weight, and Dichotomies
Sex, Love, and Duality of Body and Soul
Words and Language
Power, Politics, and Inequality
Summary
Analysis
Marie-Claude takes great pride in handling Franz’s burial. At the funeral, the pastor talks at length about Franz’s loving wife while somewhere near the back stands Franz’s young girlfriend.
Franz’s funeral is completely kitsch. Marie-Claude didn’t love him, and he didn’t love her. Everyone knows this, and they even know about his girlfriend in the back, but they simply ignore this reality.
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