A crítica ao direito e às instituições jurídicas na ótica de Machado de Assis

Abstract

Law and Literature are two branches of knowledge intimately connected with society. From this connection, the present work of conclusion of course intends to develop a critic to the Law and the Legal Institutions based on some works of Machado de Assis. Important novels and short stories of the author will be analyzed from Machado's perspective on nineteenth-century society and as such conception contributed to jurists. There will be a contextualization of the different ways in which Law and Literature relate and the importance of this union. Following, the work will relate the life of Machado de Assis and the historical context to which the author was inserted, pointing out important facts in his biography. In addition, criticism will be made to the Law and Legal Institutions, based on the tales The Alienist and Theory of the Medallion, and the novel Posthumous Memories of Brás Cubas. In order to do so, the bibliographical method was used, through which it was possible to extract from books, articles and documents already published, several opinions and understandings about the subject, allowing a greater debate in order to base the legal criticism analyzed throughout the text in tessellation