FELIX, Stephani Vieira.
Abstract:
The current space occupied by women in society is the result of a long struggle. Achievements
such as the guarantee of studies, the right to vote and insertion in the labor market were major
advances in the quest for social equality. The road was hard and one of the ways that women
found to express their desire to occupy a place that was not limited to the impositions and
idealizations to which they were submitted was through literature. Faced with a context of
changes in the most diverse social spheres that occurred during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, it was possible to observe some transformations in the role of women in society. In
this sense, starting from the study of O Quinze, by Rachel de Queiroz, we seek to present in
this work the representation of the protagonist characters present in the work, having as main
objective to analyze which factors make Conceição, Dona Inácia and Cordulina, totally
different women, with thoughts and attitudes that determine the behavior of each one. Then, we
identified in the novel which aspects influenced their actions and the space that each occupies
within the novel. As a theoretical basis, we seek to know the female universe in the early
twentieth century, a period that influenced the writing of the work, based on Alves (2000) and
Stelmacuk (2012); the female trajectory in Brazil from Telles (2004); conceptions about
feminism by Alves and Pitanguy (1985); women in Rocha's Brazilian literature (2017); in
addition to other authors who also contributed theoretically to the foundation of our work. As
for the methodology, the research developed is characterized as bibliographical, as it starts from
the analysis of the novel and develops from the study of other bibliographical references, and
quantitative, regarding the nature of its data, as it consists of the understanding and
interpretation of facts. It also comprises a descriptive-analytical character, as it will provide a
deeper reading of the characters, the feminine and the contextual relations of the space and time
in which the work was produced, taking into account the drought as a plot condition.
