In this case, in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
It was not vanity that drew her to the mirror; it was the amazement at seeing her own "I." (41)
Tereza felt her soul rushing up to the surface through her blood vessels and pores to show itself to him. (48) ... The crew of her soul rushed up to the deck of her body (50).
What was screaming in fact was the naive idealism of her love trying to banish all contradictions, banish the duality of body and soul, banish perhaps even time (54).
What [her mother] meant by her injunction was: Your body is just like all other bodies; you have no right to shame; you have no reason to hide something that exists in millions of identical copies (57).
...all Sabina's paintings, past and present, did indeed treat the same idea, that they all featured the confluence of two themes, two worlds, that they were all double exposures, so to speak (63).
It's 12:48. I'd analyze these now, but I'm tired...I guess you'll just have to wait for a prewrite or the Lit X paper. O the suspense!
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