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Part 6, Chapter 3
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
The narrator further claims that when humankind lived in Paradise, either they did not “shit” at all, or they did not look at it as something repulsive until after the fall from Paradise. It wasn’t until after Adam was expelled from Paradise that humankind started to feel disgust.
Kundera’s mention of humankind’s aversion to “shit” parallels Tereza’s aversion to the human body and her disgust with bodily functions. The narrator claims that humanity’s disgust did not occur until after Adam’s fall, which suggests this repulsion is rooted in sex and bodies, just like Tereza’s.
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