Filosofia do amor da personagem Mariana na obra Amor de Perdição

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to philosophically analyze the love of the character Mariana, included in the work Amor de Perdição, by Camilo Castelo Branco (1825-1890), a work marked in Portuguese literature by ultra-romanticism. The real focus is to understand, through philosophy, the essence of the completeness of Mariana's love through Plato's theory, a love that is far from the physical sense, as it mentions the field of thought, in which the characteristics, attitudes and also the current context at the time will be taken into consideration, making references to passionate lyricism, the evil of the century and idealism, focusing on sentimentality as a desire never achieved by the character, making Mariana the most complex and patient within Camilo's work. In this research, through Courtly Love, parts of Philia Love and Eros Love (romantic love), we obtained knowledge of a <spiritual love= that is internalized in the field of thought (imagination), an unhappy and frustrating feeling linked to the lack of affection that made Mariana an empty woman, totally pessimistic and irrational (characteristics of the romantic hero, or better said, romantic heroine).