O ciúme de Bento Santiago: imaginação destrutiva e projeções indevidas.

Abstract

In this work, are appreciated episodes of jealousy in the work Dom Casmurro, Machado de Assis. The analysis intend understand the motivations of jealousy Bento Santiago crisis. Occurrences in the study are presented in three different types, with no linear and diverse content. Were collected information theoretical and critical fortune to better undestand the hypothesis on the work studies. In the analysis, we observe the birth of jealousy, imagination accompanying the protagonist, the concept of possession, insecurity, the duality of personality, the gradation of jealousy, the treatment that the character gives the book as the trial process, the revenge, expulsion Capitu and modification of the character throughout the book. Finally, we examine the reasons that led to this modification of the character, as the projection of the ego and the comparison of his history with Othello, Shakespeare.