“A senhora do Galvão” eliminated the woman: the feminine duplicity in Machado de Assis’ short-story
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2008v13p4Keywords:
Machado de Assis, Short-stories, Feminine charactersAbstract
The short-story “O espelho” (1882) presents the “sketch of a new theory of the human soul” that proposes a division between exterior and interior soul. Rearticulating this theory in the short-story “A senhora do Galvão” (1884), the Machado de Assis’ narrator explores the feminine duplicity of Maria Olímpia, divided between her social function and her human individuality. As well as the second lieutenant eliminated the man, this work intends to analyze the way the “senhora do Galvão” – social paper – subjugates the individual up to eliminate the woman Maria Olímpia.References
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