Romance Iracema, by José de Alencar: summary and analysis of the work

No romance, the protagonist Iracema, an Indian, is turned off by Martim, a Portuguese. Together they are têm um filho, Moacir, considered the first Brazilian, the fruit of love between a colonized and a colonizer.

Or free Iracema It is a work-first that belongs to Indianism (phase of Brazilian Romanticism).

I summarize

Or I find India like Portuguese

Iracema is an Indian, filha do Pajé Araquém, born and raised in a tribal in the fields of Tabajara. A young man watched the forests one day I attacked whoever she thought was an invader.

Quem received the flechava was Martim, a Portuguese adventurer.

Before everything to contemplate her, there is a strange warrior, he is a warrior in no other spirit of the forest. He tem nas faces or branco das areias que bordam o mar; nos olhos or sad blue days deep waters. Unknown weapons and unknown cobrem-lhe or corpo. Foi fast, like or olhar, or gesture of Iracema. A soaked arrow does not start a bow Drops of blood borbulham in the face of the unknown.

Blamed for being shot with an arrow in a hasty manner, Iracema immediately helps Martim e o leva para a tribo to treat two ferments.

Martim is presented to tribo

As Martim offers help to Araquém, country of Iracema, to defend the tribesman, both of them create a special relationship and or own page, in exchange for protection, women and lodging.

When or guerreiro finished a refeição, or velho pajé apagou or cachimbo e falou:
- Did you get dressed?
- Vim, answered or unknown.
- Bem get dressed. O estrangeiro é senhor na hut de Araquém. You will work for a thousand warriors to defend him, and women to serve him. Say, and everyone will obey you.

Martim does not oil the women he has been offered because he is only temp olos for Iracema.

Theoretically nothing would prevent or casal composed by an Indian and by a Portuguese from ficar together, except or fate of Iracema deter or segrede of Jurema, or that face like she needs to remain virgem.

A fulminant paixão

Martim and Iracema left and went to live a forbidden love, migrating to a hut of the tribesmen. O result of that love arises after a few months: Moacir is born, longe da tribo.

A young man, proud of so much luck, I took or tenro filho us braços and how he threw the limpid waters of the river. Depois ella suspendeu-o à teta mimosa; Seus olhos of him então or enveloviam of sadness and love.
- You are Moacir, or born of meu sofrimento.

Or romance between or married, not long, it does not last a long time. Martim dá sinais that sentence is missing from his land and Iracema barnacle that sentence saudades do seu povo.

Final year of romance, Iracema dies and Martim takes little Moacir to live in Portugal.

Personagens principais

Iracema

She is filha do pajé Araquém, born and raised in the Tabajaras fields. Physically Iracema is described as "a virgin with two lips of mel, who have more black hair than asa gives graúna, and more long than seu talhe de palmeira". O nome Iracema is an anagram of America. Young people represent the natives who lived in Brazil before the arrival of the colonizer.

Martim

Valente, Martim Soares Moreno, is a Portuguese adventurer who sees Brazil as little known, scarcely populated by some indigenous tribes. When he meets India, Iracema immediately goes out of his way for her. Or I am given to the protagonist face reference to a real historical personagem, a little subject who would have been or responsible for the foundation of the State of Ceará. Martim symbolizes the Portuguese who migrate to Colombia to try to explore the region.

Moacir

He is the filho of the house Iracema e Martim. Iracema gives birth to Moacir sozinha, enquanto Poti and Martim saem for a battle. Depois da morte da mãe, Iracema, Moacir and raised my hair to live in Portugal. Moacir represents gênese do povo brasiliro: the result of a relationship between a native and a European.

Poti

O guerreiro Poti is a faithful friend of Martim. A friend between you and you that Poti leaves a tribo and moves to a distant hut at the end of a nursery as a home and help or friend.

Analysis of the book

Idealization

Na prima work of José de Alencar we find a highly idealized protagonist. Iracema is a romantic representative of her, a girl and described as courageous, honest, generous, dodora, charming, beautiful, chaste and pure. Symbol of love and motherhood, Iracema não vê maldade ao seu redor.

But it is not just a female main personage who is romanticized, or own cenário and idealized. O State that shelters history, or Ceará, appears as a paradisiacal space, an idyllic setting that serves as a background for a prohibited and overwhelming paixão.

Or symbolism of Moacir

O small Moacir é o symbolically not only or first from Cearense, as well as first Brazilian. He is equally as like or first mestiço, or first indigenous person in the same year as an indigenous person, the result of a relationship between an Indian and a white man.

Produto do sofrimento, or rapaz é, at the same time, symbol of finding and misconception. The result of an overwhelming paixão, but also a representation of the destiny of an unreachable love.

It is important to sublimate that, in a narrative, for Moacir to live as necessary to die. Iracema loses his life logo after giving birth to the small baby and raised to the continent where he will be educated.

In allegorical terms, it can be affirmed that it is from the sacrifice (voluntary) of the Indian who is born or the first Brazilian. É o que sublinha or intellectual Alfredo Bosi:

The histories of Peru and of Iracema to the delivery of the Indian to the white and unconditional, face of body and soul, implying sacrifice and abandonment of his belonging to the original tribesman. A departure sem return. Da virgem two lips of mel disse Machado de Assis in artigo that creates a logo that saiu or romance: "Não resist, nem inquires: since the olhos de Martim were changed as os seus of her, a moça curvou a cabeça àquela twelve escravidão ".
O risco de sofrimento e morte e oily hair selvagem sem qualquer hesitação, as it is to his devout attitude for how white represents or fulfills a destiny, which Alencar presents in heroic terms or idyllic.

A matter of publication

Iracema It was published in 1865 and initially had the subtitle "Lenda do Ceará". Literarily important for the whole country, indeed, the romance was even more important for the history of the State. In order to determine an idea that gives importance to publication, or it does not give me a protagonist service of inspiration for A series of monuments of the region other than being or nome of the seat of the governo and of a stretch of the border of Strength.

A literary creation started from an attempt by the author to breed a ficção de fundação. Iracema It intends to create a construction of national and, at the same time, racial identity.

Intellectual concerned and deceived with the country's politics, José de Alencar found the composition of romance a way to contribute to or establish ourselves. origin myth.

Literary current

O Indianism was one of the phases of Romanticism. During this period he tried to turn to the past, à gênese do povo Brasileiro, evoking nationalism and exalting the natural beauties of our country.

The romantic movement advocates a fugue of reality, considered sem graça and entntentente. Nesse felt was very interesting to the solution that or movement found: turn the olhares to or indio as an idealized figure. This context or Indian became a kind of national hero.

Iracema It belongs to the chamada indianista trilogy by José de Alencar. You two other romances that accompany Iracema são Or Guarani (1857) e Ubirajara (1874).

About José de Alencar

Born in Ceará, or writer drinks a lot of local culture to save Iracema. José Martiniano de Alencar was born in Mecejana, currently an area incorporated into the municipality of Fortaleza, on May 1, 1829. He studied in Rio de Janeiro, where he studied or taught elementary and secondary school, in São Paulo, where he was educated in Direct.

He exercised the role of advocate embora has transcended the walls of the direct: he was a journalist, orator, theater critic, writer and politician. Chegou to be deputed and Minister of Justice.

He was appointed cadeira number 23 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters by the escort of Machado de Assis.

He died young, barely forty-eight years old, with tuberculosis, not on December 12, 1877.

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