A imagem de José Dias no discurso de Dom Casmurro

Abstract

The subject of this work is investigate the presence of the character José Dias at the construction of Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, from the point of view that it is not only a co-star but even an implication of Casmurro in this opera romance through the interference of his direct speech, while determining the action of Bentinho under the active influence inside the mind of the author and narrator casmurro. The dramatic strengh of the work supported by rhetoric strategies alternated between the showing and telling (Booth) is even responsible for the continuous flow of Dom Casmurro`s inside dialogue< inserting it into polyphonic romances, according to bakhtin theory> to reach this goal of constructing again the image of the lodger Josè dias< starting from metanarrativa explicit in the first and second chapters of the book to show the opera scenery built by Casmurro to work as a prologue for the narrative. At the second chapter of the lecture some critical studies about dom casmurro were discussed, specially those around the logger< character that has been put as secondary, in view of the critical wealth of the work. Finally. at the third and fourth chapters, the strengh of direct speeches of joose dias came up as drive springs to bentinho s action and at the same time they kept alive in mind and lecture of casmurro. However the same speech inteferences of strategy, that changed the lodger s speech in favor of his convictions. At the end, in view of the studies, it is a true opera romance that was constructed through layers of doubles inside other doubles creating a game of optical illusion and unfinished thing according to bakhtin s vewpoint of romance, this is a romance like the man s house that speak