BRÁS CUBAS AND BENTINHO

AN INTERSECTION BETWEEN SILENT SPEECHES

Abstract

This research investigates the silent speeches of the characters Bentinho and Brás Cubas and aims to deepen the studies on both creation and literaly language. Masters of speech, the protagonists of the Memories and Dom Casmurro, beyond make impossible, in the narrative, the clamor of other voices, are also incomplete in their speeches, subjects and subordinated to a social adequacy that prevents them from revealing your genuine desires.  In this sense, the research aims to identify through the narrative voices of the characters, with an emphasis on what is not said, the points of intersection that chains the narrator characters' view of the world and society. These points are based on the similar historical context of both, the observation of the man of the second reign and the monopoly of language. Similar contemporaries, Brás Cubas and Bentinho are characters of a slave-holding Brazil, however, accustomed to modern and scientific ideas from the then prolific 19th century. These relations of political and social context are indispensable for the full understandingos Machado’s characters and serve as fundamental analytical focuses for the development of the research. Previous studies, present in the critical bibliography of the writer from the Rio de janeiro, provide the necessary support for the satisfactory progress of the study. To do this, the kind of methodology was bibliographical, based on the theoretical assumptions of the following authors: Pereira (1938), Cândido (1963), Bosi (1976), Faoro (1976), Schwarz (1990), Freitas (2001) and Seixas (2017).  The obtained results allow the opening of new interpretations about the characters, directing their intersection focus for the evidence implicit in the protagonists' discourse.