Para além da sedução: uma leitura de Dom Casmurro, de Machado de Assis

Abstract

This work is a reflection on the concept of seduction from the novel Dom Casmurro written by Machado de Assis. In dialogue with this story and its ambiguous and omitted characters is the theoretical support of Jean Baudrillard in his book Da Sedução, which brings a focus etymological and social of the terms. Understanding the concept of Belo, from Plato's Theory of Beauty in O Banquete, with the support of Ariano Suassuna in his essay Iniciação à Estética, sum up the historical and social cited by Umberto Eco, in A História da Feiura, which points the evolution of the sense of ugliness and how it is necessary to understand the beauty. By using the concepts of seduction and beauty we move towards the similarities and differences between the terms and the extent to which they can be so correlated as to often be confused. With this conceptual apparatus works here the historicity and language as aspects of seduction, as well as the importance of this theme in storytelling.