A iniciação feminina em orgulho e preconceito
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2017-02-20
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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Jane Austen’s most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, was published in 1813.
It portraits the lives of the daughters from the Bennet family, who need to get
married in order to maintain themselves. It is a novel about women: it was
written by a woman, its narrator has a feminine perspective and focuses on
another woman, Elizabeth Bennet. The book also discusses typical female
problems in the XIX century England. The persistent retelling of Pride and
Prejudice in movies, series, novels indicates how the Austenian work keeps
enchanting the public because it discusses topics such as love and people’s
ability to judge a character. These are humaninity’s most relevant archetypical
preoccupations and, before Austen, they appeared in myths and fairytales such
as Cupid and Psyche and Beauty and the Beast. This dissertation aims to
analyze Pride and Prejudice comparing it to the Greek myth and French
fairytale, focusing on the female initiation processes experienced by Elizabeth,
Psyche and Beauty. This dissertation has a qualitative, bibliographical and
comparative approach. The most important theoretical texts used to discuss it
were Rites and Symbols of Initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth (1975) by
Mircea Eliade, Jane Eyre’s sisters: how women live and write the heroine’s
story (2015) by Jody Bower, The annotated Pride and Prejudice (2012) by Jane
Austen with notes by David Shapard, Caminho para a iniciação feminina (1985)
by Sylvia Perera and O poder do mito (1990) de Joseph Campbell. As a result,
it is possible to conclude that the female initiation has a prominent role in this
Austenian novel and makes it possible to be constantly reread.
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CARDOSO, A. C. R. A iniciação feminina em orgulho e preconceito. 2017. 77 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2017.