A composição do mito de Inês de Castro em Os Lusíadas

Abstract

The episode of Inês de Castro and D. Pedro I was without doubt one of the most beautiful and touching stories of Portuguese literature. An ANACHRONISTIC romance of two young men who are loved unconditionally, in an era in which the marriage was only a political issue and the end of this story were death, hatred and revenge. The history of this beautiful and true love became creations of legends and myths exceptional, which has been attracting and snatching increasingly the public. The myth of the damsel dead, who then made queen, perpetuates increasingly, enchanting and thrilling the people until the days of today. So the work was composed of three distinct parts: CHAPTER I - THEORY- a brief incursion of myths; CHAPTER II- theory about the association between myth and history; and CHAPTER III- History- a review of the episode of Inês de Castro, as Camões will interspersing the myth of history. The method used for the preparation of this work was performed from the bibliographic analysis of existing literatures that address the topic. The sources of study were academic websites and books. The conclusion reached is that the history of Inês de Castro is a myth that has for centuries been recounted and reworded, in accordance with the interpretation of the reader. Camões gave this tragic history the air romantic ideals of the era in which it was written and the immortalized by other nations through the epopee of Os Lusíadas from 1572.