Personagens femininas na obra “O Cortiço”: representações da mulher no século XIX.

Abstract

This work studies the representation of female characters in the novel O Cortiço (1890) of Aluísio de Azevedo, paying attention to the way they were built, as these representations depart from the perspective of a male universe, ie, the behavior female part of a look built by the male. Azevedo is part of a literary aesthetic that is the Naturalist movement. In 1890 publishes The Slum work that describes about the social exploitation and the terrible living conditions of the poor residents of Rio's slums end of the century XIX.O omniscient narrator attaches to adjectives characters and irrational animals of actions that act on impulse. The figure of the woman is portrayed in this work of pathological and animalistic, with psychological deviations that focus on sensuality, accentuate adultery and configure the lesbiandade considered at the time as pathologies. The studies on the representation of women through the male gaze lack a deeper approach, because the man still describes in the patriarchal view, delimiting the women as weak and submissive, and sometimes diabolical and dangerous.