Venus in Furs, Part 4 — streszczenie

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1. Severin signs the agreement and a suicide declaration, then gives Wanda his passport and money.
2. Wanda has him bound and whipped, then sends him to work under the gardener for a month.
3. As her personal servant, Severin suffers humiliation while attending her guests, outings, and private needs.
4. Wanda briefly restores their intimacy, then has him harnessed to a plough and subsequently imprisoned after he looks at Haydée.
5. She releases him, resumes affectionate companionship, and takes him to a secret meeting with a young German painter.
6. Wanda declares her love exhausted, but Severin refuses freedom and afterward kneels before the Venus de’ Medici.

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Wanda abruptly ends a loving interlude by asserting her control. The line shows that apparent intimacy gives Severin no secure equality or freedom.

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