Resumo de Os Maias - Eça de Queiroz

It writes its summary here. THE MAYANS: WARNING POLITICS? Much has said the respect of this romance of Eça de Queiroz. The chain most authorized defends that the same it symbolizes the decay and ruin of a Portuguese traditional family and represents the periods of the history of Portugal; however, the dramatical nucleus - an incestuous relation between two brothers - few had dealt with esmiuçar. "the Mayans" present the incest in an unexpected and terrible way: reencontro and envolvement of Carlos before separate Eduardo and Maria Eduarda, two brothers for a series of adventures and you launch dramatical in a family. If to analyze the circumstances where the fact occurred we will be able to glimpse what subjaz in these symbols and to understand the message of Eça. Portugal and Spain, íbero-brothers, kept conflituosas relations since the "Restoration" (1640), movement that led to the release of the Portuguese nation of the Spanish domain. The Spanish domain on Portugal was sufficiently disastrous. The lusitana nation was dragged by Spain to some wars that had harmed its economy, as for example, the dutch invasions in Brazil. Moreover, the shocks between Portugal and Spain had been aggravated sufficiently when of the fight for the succession of the Spanish throne. Participating as ally of England, Portugal supported archduke Carlos de Habsburgo. With the maritime exspansionism and the exploration of colonies, more the absence of internal conflicts, Portugal was in a privileged situation in the European continent; such fact despertou covets of other nations, mainly the Spain, worried in banishing the Arabs from its territory and also to extend its borders. Without intending to consider new lines of direction to the routes that the politics, between the two nations, assumed at this time and the contemporary of Eça, we stand out however that it is possible to distinguish in the romance two latent factions in Portugal: one in favor of the Spaniard, another one against. The quarrels in the Central Hotel on the national destinations and the necessary Spanish invasion, supported for João of the Ega, are test of this. The writer, in the desperate effort to defend the sovereignty of its country, launches hand of a subtle resource, although terrible and abject - the unfeasibility of this pretense union of the two countries through the history of an incestuous linking between two brothers shows. They exist, moreover, other similitudes between the romance and the lusitana situation. Tancredo, the loving Italian of Monforte Maria symbolizes the power of Italy and its strategical importance for Portugal since the establishment of the commercial route Mediterranean-Atlantic North. Portugal if transformed into an important center of the commerce of spices between the Italian cities - Genoa and Venice mainly - and the Sea of the North, forming themselves in Portugal one strong national bourgeoisie to the molds of the Italian refinement. Monforte Maria got passionate itself, was fascinated with the ostentation and followed the prince blindly, without measuring consequences. Already in this initial stretch of the romance, Eça calls the attention the reader to the inconsequential ravishment and sentimentalismo that characterized the personality of Portuguese citizen e, for extension, the administrative and private acts of its governing. Craft, English, distant of the general environment of corruption, cynicism, lowering and mediocrity that grassava in Portugal, can represent the upright and nobility of character in the intentions of England when pressuring Portugal for the gradual extinguishing of the slave traffic with other countries, between them, Brazil. Eça, sensible and perspicacious, was solidarizou with this gesture of the British nation and traced the profile English as sober, austere and incorruptible. Alfonso of the Mayan and the Ramalhete portraies a Portugal conservative, rectum and just, that he looked for to soerguer itself by meansof the nationality feeling, he honors and moral through a moderate liberalism. The separation of spouses and the withdrawal of Eduarda Maria, subventionized for the remaining portion of the life for the patrimony of the Mayans, have the clear contour of the Portuguese economic patronage to the Spanish nation, through expressivos treated agreements and, between them the Treated one to Tordesilhas, where Spain allotment with Portugal the profit gained with the land exploration discovered in the South American continent. Eça de Queiroz did not guarantee the survival of the Portuguese nation when determining the death of Alfonso of the Mayan. However, its bigger merit was to ahead place of the reader the description, with great fineness, requinte and ability, of a drama lived for Maria Eduarda and Carlos Eduardo irmanados in one same passion, on for a so great indescritível love the brightness and intensity. The nonsense of the message, although valid while warning politics, is to demonstrate the incapacity of the human being in leaguing themselves sincerely faithful and to another one, not to be for consanguineous bows. Not the love in the vision of Eça survived Portugal nor. It remained the magical touch of the romancista to the written word, disclosing, in the space between lineses of a love case, a vehement one I appeal to the lusitana nation. Eleanor Stange Searching Blacksmith

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