The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Part 4

This section is about Sabina and Tomas again back in Prague. An interesting part of this section is in chapter 5 when sabina is in a sauna with a few other women, Sabina pays attention to one woman in particular as she finds her naked image disturbing, she says how the woman had hue breasts but a childish pretty face. This makes Sabina concered/worried about her own image. She looks at herself naked in a mirror and notices how small her breasts are, we hear how her mother used to "ridicule" her for her small breasts. Sabina then goes on to show us how she is ashamed and embarressed by dark lines arond her nipples. I think this bit is interesting as Kunderashows us, thorugh Sabina, how unhappy women can be with thier bodies. They tend to be more embarresed and worried about thier anatomy than men. This seems to partially explain her low self esteem and why she lets Tomas push her around and treat her badly. I dont think that Sabina values herself very highly at all. I think that this is mainly because of her mothers rudeness about her body (women dont like being told that they have bodily flaws especially coming from the person you should respect and trust most in the world, your mother, this would have had a very bad effect on her view of herself.)

Another good part of this section is when Tereza finds out that the photos she took of the Prague spring may be being used by the Russian secret police. This upsets her as she didnt intend her photos to be used in this way. she thought she was risking her life for her country when in fact she was helping out the hated Russian police. This seems like Kundera showing us that good intentions can be used for bad.Or maybe he is telling us that a good deed will also have something negative alongside it. so for exaple if you give money to charity when your family are poor, you are doing a good deed but also a bad deed as you should support your family.

The third relevant part of this section is where Sabina has a dream where she thinks that Tomas has sent her to die. She is on a hill called Petrin hill and there are some suicidal women with her, a man with a rifle is also there, helping the women commit suicide. Sabina goes away saying that she isnt suicidal and then realised that Tomas shent her up there so that she would be killed. This disturbs and upsets her. It is an interesting fact that all of her dreams involve tomas hurting her in some way. Like the dream in the swimming pool for example. It seems as if we are being show that Tomas is ouit to get her.dreams are supposedly your deepest thoughts so this should mean that Sabina is sure that staying with Tomas will be her death. The way Sabina confuses dreams with her reality is also quite interesting as it has made me wonder whether she has some kind of mental issue....