"Quem conta um conto aumenta um ponto", a construção da personagem Capitu na narração de Bento Santiago em Dom Casmurro

Abstract

This study made possible to understand the relationships of genres rooted in the patriarchal system within Dom Casmurro, once, the narrative takes place at the end of the nineteenth century. This romance is narrated in first person by Bento Santiago. In this way, it was necessary to analyze the role of women, taking as a bases Capitu’s efacets presented by Bentinho. These facets pass between her Oblique and disguised configuration, which it builds Capitu sometimes like an angel and sometimes like an “empowered” woman that it makes her like a trouble in the patriarchal order. Thus, it was necessary to verify the social and familiar place this narrator occupy in this work, that this, from where and how your voice comes from, how it’s built and passed the perception about Capitu. The narrator’s speech starts from a place that evidences him as a culturist in the patriarcal way tha silences the women, as well as the Capitu character. Moreover, it was possible to identify the relations between the constituent discourse of literature, the power and the patriarchalism, forming a web that subalternizes the female figures, since they are about the unique perspective of the owner and lord of the narrative. For this, the research was bibliographical. In order to reach the goal we searched for basic studies such as Dominique Maingueneau (2006), Mikhail Bakhtin (2002), Spivak (2010), Alfredo Bosi (1992), John Gledson (1991), Mariza Corrêa (1981), John Kenneth Galbraith (1999), Michel Foucault (2007, 2008), Ruth Silviano Brandão (2006) and Robert Schwarz (1991) Rosemarie Muraro (2015), and others. From the analysis it was possible to observe concepts and considerations about the patriarchalism and the Bento Santiago’s discursive strategies with the purpose that the narrator puts himself. This study is divided by three parts, on the first one we try to understand how patriarchalism and its relations of power are configured. After, we make a position breviary of a brazilian woman and we know some of the machadians women. Finishing this work, we try to understand how the literary discourse is revealed and how Bentinho builds this speech about Capitu. Therefore, the figure of Capitu is subalternized for this discourse of Bento, that places her as a seductive devil who crash like the angel woman that society so much idealizes.