Apontamentos para uma leitura crítica do “Auto da Compadecida”.

Abstract

This work consists of a critical reading about the playwright titled 'Auto da Compadecida ', written in 1955. The first on stage of the aforementioned work dates from September 11, 1956 at the Teatro Santa Isabel by the Teatro do Adolescente de Recife. The author of the work, Ariano Suasuna, professor, novelist, playwright and poet, was born in the city of João Pessoa, on June 16, 1927. 'Auto da Compadecida' encompasses several "short stories" organized around the main line about two friends who struggle to survive in the Sertão of Paraíba. Faced with extreme poverty, João Grilo and Chicó involve the inhabitants of the city (dominant class) in their tricks to solve their problems. The aim of this work is to generate notes about the work through a critical reading. We will reflect on the dominant classes and their relationship with the people. Thus, we will consider the characters in their symbolic value through the socioeconomic and cultural condition: ' Baker ' (bourgeois), the Church (clergy), ' Major Antônio Morais ' (aristocracy), the people represented mainly by João Grilo. We intend to point out the oppression exerted by the dominant class (Baker, Major Antônio Morais and the power of the church) to the poor people and reinherited to misery and obliged to use the cleverness to resist (João Grilo).