Uma análise das histórias em quadrinhos a luz da Teoria Funcionalista dos Valores Humanos

Abstract

The Comics Books it is a resource usually utilized in currently educational contexts, however his origin came from the antiquity, since prehistory most specifically from the petroglyphs made by men who told their histories through images. Thus can define the comics books how a history that has a sequence of facts chronologically narrated, interrelated, disposed in a serial of geometric figures, the panel, has a content a message, in its most comically, but with a meaning. Then, it is also worth highlighting on these histories has the valuation premise that can influence at the children behavior. Values are categories of desirable states of existence that transcend specific situations, guide the selection of behaviors, are events that guide different grades of importance and cognitively represent the human necessities. On this perspective this study has an objective to aim analysis the comics books based on the Functional Theory of Human Values, utilizing as resource the fifteen comics books, from comics “Turma da Mônica”. After the analysis from histories, it was found that, the value power, had a great highlighted in results, represented principally for Monica, the main character, which generally, exerts a relation of superiority above the others, establishing the accomplishment of his will. Also notes that in many situations the protagonist have success (value successful). Concluded that the expressed content on these histories, could reflect in behavior from child population, in view of, that the infants are in process of moral formation, and identity, internalize values involuntarily, therethrough to be externalized by actions in their contexts.