A escrava Isaura: summary and complete analysis
Published in 1875, A escrava Isaura was a literary work written by Bernardo Guimarães and belongs to the second generation of romanticism. With an abolitionist theme, or a romance it was controversial at the height at which it was launched, it is worth mentioning that the abolition of the scrap was only assassinated, in fact, in 1888.
I summarize
To the protagonist of the romance of Bernardo Guimarães and Isaura, a pele branca escrava, filha do meet of a Portuguese branco - or feitor Miguel - with a black escrava.
Or dono da house where Isaura was born or Commander Almeida, a woman was raised by the Mulher do Commander, a senhora de bom coração who educou and tinha as a libertá-la project. Isaura learns to read, to escreveu, to play piano and to falar Italian and French.
- But, senhora, in spite of everything, what do you know, what a simple escrava? Essa education, which gives me, and essa beauty, that I loved so much, that it serves me... There are luxurious frets placed in the African direction. A senzala nem by isso deixa de ser o que é: uma senzala.
- Queixas-gives you your luck, Isaura ...
- Eu não, senhora; I have no reason... Or that I want to make it up to you that, despite all these gifts and vantages, that you attribute to me, know or take my place.
Or commander, to settle down, move to court, leaving the farm in charge of filho, Leôncio. Despite being married to Malvina, Leôncio is hopelessly beaten by Isaura.
A woman of the commander died suddenly, not leaving any document that released Isaura. As her owner dies, the girl becomes a member of Leôncio.
Isaura calls the attention of several homens for their beauty and education, between them or jardineiro da fazenda, Belchior, and Henrique, brother of Leôncio. A moça, porém, é categorical: she will only give herself to um homem for love.
Or commander dies and Malvina goes on to press more and more Leôncio to free moça. Taking advantage of a turbulent moment, or feitor Miguel, pai de Isaura, decides to flee as a young man to Recife.
Lá, pai e filha manage to conquer a new life liberta: trocam os nomes (Isaura becomes Elvira and Miguel turns to Anselmo), moving to a new house in Santo Antônio. It is in Recife that Isaura knows or his great love of her, Álvaro, a rich raptor, abolitionist, republican. Álvaro is also madly in love with Isaura.
Or young person invited to participate in a dance and Isaura, then Elvira, suspicious, oil or treat. Do not dance, not so, she is unmasked and reveals that she is a fugitive escrava. Leôncio fica knowing or paradeiro of Isaura and back of the. Or a tragic result: a moça is lifted from volta to a farm where she remains a recluse together as a pai.
Or the end of the story, contorted, and happy: Isaura is saving hair from her great love, Álvaro, who discovers that Leôncio was missing and buys his eagerness from her. In any case, all of Leôncio's bens will belong to Álvaro, including Isaura.
Personagens principais
Isaura
Filha de um pai português branco (or feitor Miguel) with a black escrava. Isaura, despite being a white peel, has been written from or born.
Leôncio
Filho do Commander, Herdeiro da Fazenda e de Isaura. Leôncio was raised by the side of the girl and lost to her.
Malvina
Mulher de Leôncio, described as cute and charming, desires the liberation of Isaura.
Henrique
Cunhado de Leôncio, also otter love for Isaura.
Alvaro
O generous redeemer is Isaura, because he burns a moça he turns off.
Belchior
Jardineiro da fazenda, described as an ugly and deformed little guy who looks like an offer to join Isaura.
Michael
Pai de Isaura, he face of tudo to free filha.
A escrava Isaura, a romantic work
A work produced by Bernardo Guimarães divides the personagens bons two personagens maus. The protagonist, Isaura, for example, is extremely idealized for her beauty that enchants everyone. A girl also has an exemplary character and is saved to find or homem that she fato loves, Álvaro. Or vilão, Belchior, for the time, is extremely characteristically and aesthetically repulsive.
Historic context
Or romance A escrava Isaura alavancou a carreira de Bernardo Guimarães, who happened to be recognized as a great author, especially because of the courage to touch on a controversial issue - or abolitionism - até então pouquíssimo addressed na literature. When it was released, A Escrava Isaura was a succession of bandages.
It is worth underlining that the book was published thirteen years before the Golden Law and was assassinated, decreeing the definitive abolition of the escravatura. However, in September of 1871, it had been promulgated to read ventre livre, which emancipated, even though slowly, you escravos.
About or author Bernardo Guimarães
Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães was born on August 15, 1825, in Ouro Preto, inland of Minas Gerais. He was the poet Joaquim da Silva Guimarães.
He was a seminarian before moving to São Paulo on his course or higher education and advocate. He became a municipal judge in Catalão (Goiás). In addition, he was also a non-paid day laborer Atualidades and was a professor at the Liceu Mineiro de Ouro Preto.
Considered or the breeder of sertanejo and regional romance, Bernardo Guimarães had hardly any first and last nome from the first inaugural work, or book of poetry Cantos da solidão.
Fifty years ago he published his most famous work: A escrava Isaura.
In his personal life, he was a close friend of the poet Álvares de Azevedo, he married Teresa Maria Gomes and you had many children.
He was appointed patron of cadeira No. 5 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He died on March 10, 1884, in Ouro Preto.
Find the complete bibliography of the writer:
Cantos da solidão, 1852.
Poems, 1865.
Or hermitage of Muquém, 1868.
Lendas e romances, 1871.
O garimpeiro, 1872.
Histories of the province of Minas Gerais, 1872.
Or seminarian, 1872.
O Indio Afonso, 1873.
A morte de Gonçalves Dias, 1873.
A escrava Isaura, 1875.
Novas poetry, 1876.
Maurício or the Paulists in São João Del-Rei, 1877.
A cursed ilha, 1879.
O pão de ouro, 1879.
Rosaura, a aged, 1883.
Folhas de Outono, 1883.
O bandido do Rio das Mortes, 1904.
Romance adaptation for television, first version (Globe)
With the authorship of Gilberto Braga, a novel by Rede Globo has inspiration not romance abolitionist by Bernardo Guimarães. The novel was produced between October 1976 and February 1977 at no time of six.
Foram cem chapters directed by Herval Rossano and Milton Gonçalves. For forty years, a novel still appears in the list of championships of telenovelas marketed abroad.
The first chapter of the plot is available in its entirety:
Main cast of the novel
Lucélia Santos (Isaura)
Gilberto Martinho (Commander Almeida)
Léa Garcia (Rosa)
Roberto Pirillo (Tobias)
Átila Iório (Miguel)
Beatriz Lyra (Esther)
Rubens de Falco (Leoncio)
Zeny Pereira (Januária)
Norma Bloom (Malvina)
Adaptation of romance for television, second version (Record)
A version of A escrava Isaura produced by TV Record is more extensive than the adaptation of Rede Globo, counting with 167 chapters. The episodes formed between October 2004 and April 2005. The author was assassinated by Tiago Santos. O diretor was the same as the previous adaptation, Herval Rossano.
Main cast of the novel
Bianca Rinaldi (Isaura)
Valquíria Ribeiro (Juliana)
Jackson Antunes (Miguel)
Rubens de Falco (Commander Almeida)
Norma Blum (Gertudes)
Leopoldo Pacheco (Leoncio)
Maria Ribeiro (Malvina)
Leia or romance in PDF format
To escrava Isaura It is available for free download in its entirety through the public domain.
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Conheça also
- Livro Senhora, by José de Alencar
- Livro Os miseráveis, by Victor Hugo
- Livro Memórias de um Sergeant of Milícias de Manuel de Antônio de Almeida
