Análise psicológica do comportamento da personagem Rosália na obra Uma lágrima de mulher de Aluísio Azevedo

Abstract

The idealization of women during the Romantic period is remarkable, the woman who does everything for her beloved, as well as the image of a submissive woman who accepts everything that society imposes on her. However, in Aluísio Azevedo's novel, despite having been written as a serial novel, which makes it follow the Romantic line, we see a drastic change in Rosalina's personality, who goes from being a peasant to a high-class urban woman, trying to free herself from her great love. Rosalina, the main character, besides being romantic and dreamy, as women of the time were represented, presents a change in her personality influenced by her father. Is this change just to make the work more tragic or does it somehow demonstrate how easily people lose their innocence and feelings when economic interests are at stake? Based on the information presented, we arrive at the following hypotheses: Rosalina, upon giving up on Miguel's pure romance, carries within herself the beginning of a new, more rational and materialistic perception, despite being a character in a soap opera novel. The character felt pressured to live with someone from her new class and so she tried in every way to put an end to Miguel's hopes. Her personality ceases to be that of a romantic woman and becomes more rational, but still naive when acting for economic interests. Maranhão had its artistic and literary heyday in the second half of the 19th century, a period in which it had names of national prominence, whether in drama, literature, poetry and prose. It is known that many of these writers drew from the Portuguese source of the literary styles of the time. However, the styles of great prominence such as naturalism and realism in Brazil had some of their own characteristics, starting with picturesque themes, denunciations of the ills of our own society. In this work, the methodology used consists of the deductive method, being qualitative in terms of approach and bibliographic research based on theoretical assumptions. The following work has as its main and secondary objectives, consecutively, to investigate the psychological aspects of the behavior of the character Rosalina in the novel Uma lágrima de mulher by Aluísio Azevedo. To discuss the construction of the figure of the woman at the end of the Romantic period in Brazil. To analyze the change in behavior in Rosalina when she leaves the countryside and starts living in an urban center participating in high society. To reflect on the contribution of Aluísio Azevedo to Brazilian literature still in the Romantic period.