- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This passage appears just after Karenin has died, and it is important because it explains Kundera’s notion of the “idyll,” or Paradise, and it again implies that true happiness is the desire for repetition. The fact that no one can give another person “the gift of the idyll,” or the gift of Paradise or true happiness, suggests that Tereza and Tomas never had any real chance of making each other happy. Instead, their happiness relied upon Karenin, who was the only one who could make them happy.
Now that Karenin is gone, it is implied that Tereza and Tomas will…