A mulher como agente de sua própria submissão nas obras The gentle lena de Gertrude Stein e A hora da estrela de Clarice Lispector - um estudo comparativo

Abstract

This study aimed, to show and compare how the main characters Lena and Macabéa from the books "The Gentle Lena" and "The Time of the Star" lived in order to suppress their lives, and how to possess a vague existence, analyzing how these characters contributed to their own submission, being used by friends, partners and relatives. Thus, by listing reasons that influence the behavior of Lena and Macabéa based on the theories of feminism, determinism, cultural studies, and comparative literature. For that, a bibliographic and comparative research was carried out with the expositions of authors, also of the cultural studies in the respect of the fatalities that occurred to explain the submission of the woman in this work. For this, a research based on some authors was used, such as: BELLOZO (2006), TAINE (2008), SPIDER; MARTINS (2003), CEVASCO (2003) among others that were very important for the conclusion of this work. Therefore, we can say that the main characters of this research lived in a different historical context, in which women did not have their rights recognized, either had the right to say something or express their opinion; Women were considered the fragile sex, who needed a man or a person to help to be able to live or do something, therefore, they were inferior by nature, being useful only for the execution of housework and procreation. Because they had no access to knowledge and belonged to the less favored classes, they accepted what was imposed on them by other people without question it. We find that there is a logical sequence in the lives of our main character’s, as well as some dissimilarities. We realized that Macabéa had for one moment a time for a self-evaluation after the end of her relationship, she felt the desire to be noticed, to feel beautiful, attractive and we did not find this detail with Lena.