Bentinho é Capitu: a autotraição do narrador de Dom Casmurro

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Anny Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6750
• topic: Irony; Self-betrayal; Jealousy; Miniseries; Adaptation; Television; Literature on television; Machado de Assis; Dom Casmurro; Ironia; Autotraição; Ciúme; Microssérie; Adaptação; Televisão; Literatura na televisão; Assis, Machado de, 1839-1908 Crítica e interpretação; Assis, Machado de, 1839-1908. Dom Casmurro; Assis, Machado de, 1839-1908 Adaptações para televisão; Televisão e literatura; Capitu (Personagem fictício); CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURA COMPARADA

Bentinho is not a completely innocent character in his autobiographical memories. Despite posicioning himself as victim, some attitudes of him inside the novel Dom Casmurro, written by Machado de Assis, are able to accuse the first-person narrator of other things besides the image of betrayed husband that he wants to show. Thus, this study will investigate how the character, through his cranky old version leaves the accuser position for the defendant. We will see how the character, who has the power of the narrative in his hands, ironically betrays himself, showing, even without clearly see, his accusatory characteristics. Thus, we will find in him, not only a jealous character with some madness, but also a person who is as disingenuous and manipulative as Capitu, his girlfriend, an then, the wife who is judged and sentenced throughout the novel. Being like her, gives Bento the same destination of the girl: loneiness and exile that, in his case, happens in his own homeland. There is a second corpus on which this analysis focuses: the miniseries Capitu (2008), displayed by TV Globo in celebration of the centenary of the death of Machado de Assis. We will show how this audiovisual work directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho presented on television the Machado de Assis guidelines, keeping the mystery of the Bruxo do Cosme Velho. In addition, the miniseries also translates into images the idea that Bentinho is a reflection, a breakdown of Capitu.