Mónica Ganhão, “Mártires de amor: adultério e expiação femininos em Herança de Lágrimas de Ana Plácido,” Revista Portuguesa de Humanidades 24, no. 1–2 (2020): 193–212.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Mónica Ganhão |
| Rights | © 2020 Aletheia - Associação Científica e Cultural |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 193-212 |
| Publication | Revista Portuguesa de Humanidades |
| ISSN | 0874-0321 |
| Date | 2020 |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Abstract | Ana Plácido (1831-1895) is a Portuguese female author who lived and wrote mostly in the shade of her lover and husband Camilo Castelo Branco. Her work, though almost forgotten and rarely read, is invaluable to the study of the Portuguese nineteenth-century novel and the female figure so frequently depictured in it. Herança de Lágrimas, her biggest work, focuses on the love life of the daughter of a woman who lost everything for adulterous love. Diana, on the brink of following her mother’s steps, is halted by the letter revealed to her by her husband, which her mother had written before being devoured by consumption after months of suffering and loneliness. By centering the plot around women, their love life and their feelings and thoughts, Plácido places first-hand female psychology as the main concern of her work, allowing for a different perspective from that used by contemporary male authors and encouraging women readers to reflect about their own lives and condition. In this article we aim to assess how the female characters in this work are depicted as martyrs from being forced to marry men they do not love and then being seduced by ruthless lovers who end up despising them. Their suffering and repent, caused by the social consequences of being an adulterous wife, allow them the moral and emotional redemption that society does not. Martyrs for love perhaps, but not for the everlasting love that justifies the sacrifice: rather for an illusion, an ideal quickly and drastically undone. |
| Date Added | 12/15/2020, 9:34:22 PM |
| Modified | 12/15/2020, 10:00:19 PM |
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