As estruturas de sentido no horário nobre: análise das personagens Flora e Donatela na novela a favorita sob as perspectivas da classificação das personagens e semiótica da narrativa

• Autor(a) principal: Bressan Junior, Mario
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Universitário da Ânima (RUNA)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.animaeducacao.com.br/handle/ANIMA/3462
• topic: Telenovela; Classificação das personagens; Semiótica da narrativa

The research presented here focuses on the categorisation of characters and the semiotics of narrative applied to broadcast drama as this is a topic that has received very little attention from the research community. In soap operas, characters play an important role in the development of a story, unfolding events and developing a meaning-building process that is fundamental to understanding the plot. Studies on characters’ categorisation concentrate on some of the categories that emphasize their roles in plots and sub-plots, allowing identification of the complexity of characters: whether they are flat, round, grotesque, heroic, anti-heroic, among others. Narrative semiotics contributes to the understanding of this meaning development process and it consists of three different levels which are responsible for the generative route to meaning in a plot: fundamental, narrative and discourse. Faced with this, the main goal of this dissertation is to analyse the meaning structures developed by the characters Flora and Donatela of A Favorita, a soap opera broadcasted by Rede Globo in 2008, on the basis of fictional characters’ categorisation and the semiotics of narrative.” Two specific points are analysed to identify the features of the characters and the generative route to meaning in each of them: before and after the moment in which the killer was revealed. This analysis is developed on the basis of a descriptive and qualitative case study using the content analysis technique. The scenes building Flora’s and Donatella’s behaviour are described in order to develop the analysis which is structured as follows: the first two sections piece together the seven episodes analysed and the other two inroduce the scenes and the profiles of both characters during episodes 53 to 59 relative to the week in which the killers’ identity was revealed. Given the meanings? (or the generative route to meaning) developed by the character Flora, it is concluded that the viewers are led to believe that she was telling the truth and that she was a hero in the story, fact which is later reversed in the plot