Posthumous women of Brás Cubas: virgília rediscovered
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Posthumous memories (From the romance Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas) – Machado`s Women – Virgília (the character)Abstract
From the fifth romance written by Machado de Assis, the female character realizes her public and intimate desires. And so, it comes the woman who joins the marriage social state with loving triangle pleasures. The character Virgília shows that her power is not only an assumed position but also an ambition meaning liberty and fight against the century nineteenth female miseries condition In this article we will notice the narrator`s grumpy relation with other people in his biography and the loved immortal rediscovered that beyond she is present in the narrative herself, she has an overstepped presence as an alive reader from Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas.References
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