Epic Characteristics

With the creation of a personage protagonist-woman of epic characteristics and uncommon gallows, Jose Saramago offers in Assay On the Blindness a marcante possibility to us of analysis of the feminine representation in literature contemporary. The imaginary exercise of an utopia avessas? in which the woman inside constructs its identity of the most inconceivable chaos, from the suspension of the old social conventions? to allow to go beyond the simple representation (Raquel Wandelly in the Blindness of the Sorts). Assay on the blindness places the woman in an enclosure for bullfighting of fights, since the main personage if constructs while subject of the articulation. The voice narrative of third person s constructs while subject of the articulation and, the narrative in third person if mixture in the speech with its I masculine e, from there, generate two timbres? the masculine and the feminine e, ahead of this mixture start the construction of the collective identity. In this perspective: Katrhyn Woodward, Hall and Boaventura Saint (2000) go to emphasize in its research that ' ' the construction of the identity is in such a way symbolic, how much social. The fight to affirm the different identities has causes materiais' ' e, that the representation includes practises them of significaes and the symbolic systems by means of which the meanings are produced, locating us as citizens. It is by means of the meanings produced for the representations that we give sensible our experience and what we are. Under this bias, one notices that the identity of the personages of Assay On the Blindness is shown by the profession who exert, for the physical characteristics, degree of kindred and not from a proper name: ' ' Inside of us it has a thing that not it has name, this thing is what somos' ' (SARAMAGO, 1995, P. 262). Such definition of identity that this I break up brings, can be observed in the Aurlio dictionary Century XXI, that it defines: Set of proper and exclusive characters of a person: physical name, age, state, profession, sex, defects, fingerprints etc.; or still, aspect collective of a set of characteristics for which something is definitively reconhecvel, or known (BLACKSMITH, 1999).