The unbearable lightness of being takes on the nitzschien notion that the eternal return is the biggest burden. The life lived weak and not to return will be a meaningless life and the life lived strong will return with it strong events. Milan Kundera enters the reader into the dilemma that what is better being light and without heavy burdens of life , suitcases of repsonsablities , lack of meaning in relationships . This was the meaning of his life to be void of meaning. Tereza alters these understandings with his relation to the world and meanings. His actions now have different meaning . Meeting with his mistress Sambina he now is no longer having meaning from his erotic diallasions in the sense that it is for their erotica but that the event has now affected the meaning of something else in his life. This now means something because it means nothing but it means nothing because he has found something that he does believe means something.
Sambina and the bowler Hat
The eternal return of the bowler hat may be examined in a time cycle quite different from ours . We could say there is degree of meaning within time. A decade could pass with no event happening to the hat but then in a week several meetings and that hat has meaning for all time even when immobile. It is not that time length that is significant to the importance but the vitality of that time. the Hat represents this returning of a same event within a framework of here now in one life. The Hat that her grandfather wore , nostalgia and the past . the hat begins with its own identity and it is used as in the nietzschien idea of the creation of masks. Each time the hat is used , the old hat in a seemingly repetitive stage being put on whilst sambiba is in her underwear . Each time it gives a new meaning a new creation. It changes the perspective of her lover Franz , it caught her vunrablity with Tomas and it gave her a feel of authoritarian over Tereze.


