O morro dos Ventos Uivantes: um Bildungsroman feminino.

Abstract

This research aims to analyze O Morro dos Ventos Uivastes (1847) by the English author Emily Brontë (18181848), from the perspective of the female Bildungsroman, that is, the Formation Romance of female authorship, highlighting the journey from childhood, to adolescence and the adult life of two protagonists, Cathy and Heathcliff. This work is a double Bildungsroman, that is, fleeing from the male and female tradition of until then, as the author focuses on the troubled maturation process of two protagonists, Cathy and Heathcliff, as a woman and a man, and this is constructed both in terms of race, class and gender, especially since he was a poor dark-skinned foreign immigrant and she was an upper-class, white Englishwoman. For this, we used a qualitative research, bibliographical in nature, we will rely on the theoretical contribution of Gilbert and Gubar (1996), Woolf (1882), Showalter (1977), Mass (2000), Pinto (1992), Godman (1983) , among others, also in the analysis of issues related to bildung/intellectual, cultural and sexual formation of the protagonists. In addition, feminist literature in the context of the nineteenth century will be addressed, and the difficulties of writers in producing their works, many of which have become canonical, such as O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes, and Emily Brontë's trajectory in the production process of her novel, as well as her sisters, which changed the English and Western literary scene, building a literary tradition of female authorship. This research is original because it analyzes the novel in focus from the perspective of the female Bildungsroman, since few texts were found on this issue, so that here light will be shed on Brontë's classic that will help to understand it from a different point of view.