Do amor à loucura: uma análise do comportamento das protagonistas das obras Gone Girl e Sharp Objects da escritora Gillian Flynn

Abstract

The present academic work aims to compare the novels Gone Girl and Sharp Objects by writer Gillian Flynn, focusing on the behavior of the main characters, Amy Dunne and Camille Preaker. It was presented as these characters have something in common in their creations and family roots, triggering changes in their lives and changes in the formation of personality, leading them to develop personality disorders that completely change the paths of their stories. As a methodology, two works were compared Gone Girl and Sharp Objects by writer Gillian Flynn through a bibliographic search. The theorists approached in the area of literature theory, as well as in comparative literature, were Carvalhal (2006), Culler (1999) and Proença Filho (2007). In the area of behavioral psychology, Skinner (1974) contributed one of the biggest names in the theory of behaviorism. Leite (2002), Wellek and Warren (1976) formed the theoretical basis for the relationship between literature and psychology. The approach to psychopathologies, we highlight the contributions of Jaspers (987) in addition to the official diagnostic manuals DSM-5 and ICD-10. The main characters share a destructive and primordial base in common, which is the cruel, destructive and poisoned relationship with their mothers, who create them as a mirror of their own frustrations, marks and pains. In this way, these characters are exposed to live an impossible perfection imposed by their mothers, leading them to develop personality disorders in the name of an illusory love