The cracks of human nature in “Pai contra Mãe”, de Machado de Assis

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https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v51i3.1463

Keywords:

Machado de Assis, Moral, Human drivers, “Pai contra mãe”, Slavery

Abstract

Considering the constitution of the modern subject in Machado's books, with objective to analyze the representation of human drivers in the short story Father against Mother, “Pai contra mãe”, published in the collection Relíquias de casa velha, from 1906, by Machado de Assis. The aforementioned tale covers aspects of morality that interweave instincts of cruelty and the nature of evil as a congenital part of social formation. It is intended to describe the reification of man by slavery in the midst of the struggle for self-preservation and soul tendencies for the perception of possible paths in the face of threatening situations.

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Raquel Cristina Ribeiro Pedroso, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, São Paulo,

Doutoranda em Letras, Literatura e Vida Social pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras da Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP, FCL Assis. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq.

Gabriela Kvacek Betella, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, São Paulo,

Docente da Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP,  Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis. Pós-doutora pela Universidade de São Paulo.

Published

2020-12-31

How to Cite

Pedroso, R. C. R., & Betella, G. K. (2020). The cracks of human nature in “Pai contra Mãe”, de Machado de Assis. Revista Da Anpoll, 51(3), 119–128. https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v51i3.1463

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Estudos Literários (2020)