A jornada da heroína: um estudo mitocrítico em A Noiva-Cadáver, de Tim Burton

Abstract

The present study sought to investigate the presence of the rites of passage in Tim Burton's work, Corpse Bride, through a mythic critical approach. In today's Western society, the substance once guaranteed by myths, rites, fairy tales, and other forms of experience exchange, which are part of culture, was incorporated by different means of the expression of imagination. Thus, attention was drawn to the manifestation of elements of the narrative structure, converging with myths and rites, in works that are products of stop-motion animation cinema to keep the symbolic charge transmitted by the tradition of storytelling. In this sense, it was proposed to investigate the interaction of stop-motion animation cinema and concepts of the imaginary, to rescue vital energies that act in the collective unconscious through the reading of Tim Burton’s hero over the Hero’s Journey perspective. In the following, it was analyzed how the representation of the female ritual death takes place as it is portrayed in different artistic media. Finally, the confrontation of the stages of the hero's journey was held in order to see which of them converge with the heroine's journey in the investigated movie. Thus, to carry out the analysis of the corpus, the theories of Campbell (2007) and Murdock (2002) were used along with the myth critical theory, such as Gilbert Durand (2001); studies on the imaginary, such as Carl Jung (2000); and gender studies, such as Beauvoir (2009), among others. Therefore, based on the myth criticism and the comparison between Campbell's hero's journey and Murdock's heroine's journey, it was possible to establish a correspondence between some stages in both narratives, but it comes to light that the heroine's journey manifests some aspects that are part specially of women's lives.