Helena
(Machado de Assis)
Divided in 28 chapters, the action of Helena advances in linear way: it starts with the death of the Advising Valley the opening of its will and concludes with the death of the protagonist, the desperation of Estácio and the kiss of Camargo in Eugênia, its son. Between a point and another one the ten months lived for Helena in the Andaraí transcorrem, in company of the brother, the aunt, D. Úrsula, and of the friends who visit them, it enters closest counting to Camargo and family, Mendonça, for a time fiancé of the heroine, and the Priest Melchior, the religious and sentimental council member of the majority of the personages. In the space of colonial Rio De Janeiro, an important and rich man keeps in case that loving with a woman who had migrado of the Rio Grande Do Sul and if she separates of the husband, due the financial difficulties. The woman already possuía a son, who, later, was adopted by loving the rich one. This son is Helena. Exactly knowing of everything, it is received in the seio of the family from the loving one from its mother, already deceased, and enters in ownership of a considerable inheritance. The convivência finishes for generating a reciprocal passion between Helena and its presumption Estácio brother. The incest drama shakes the structures of the family of Estácio and everything walks for a surprising end. Advising valley was a rich man, and had a loving case with Ângela, a woman who had migrado of the RS, it had a son, Helena. Advising Valley dies, and in its will it alleged that Helena was its son and that it had to take its place in the family, all believes this, however Helena knows that is not truily its son, but in its anxiety to ascend socially it finishes accepting this. To the principle, D. Úrsula reacts with a certain preconception to the arrival of Helena, but in elapsing of the narrative it goes gaining the love of D. Úrsula, Estácio however, was a good son, and makes the will of the father without inquiring nothing. Dr. Camargo finds that a nonsense, therefore it wanted to marry its son, Eugênia, with Estácio so that they became rich the costs of the money of Estácio, and plus a familiar one she would only go to diminish the party to inheritante of Estácio. Helena takes its place in the family as a fiber woman, a true owner of house, very takes care of well of its new family, dirige the house best of what D. Úrsula made it, and not only impresses the family as all the society in general, because beyond being a balanced woman as few that existed, was pretty, sensible and rich. When elapsing of the narrative, Helena goes impressing more and more Estácio, and in this it for it finishes if getting passionate for it, and. Here it is here the central problem of the conflict in the book, of a Estácio side, if martirizando for if getting passionate for its supposed sister, what it was a sin, and of the other Helena, also gotten passionate for Estácio, this wise person of all truth, but could not play everything high it and to be with it, however, pressured for Camargo that threatened to become public its mysterious matutinos strolls, if it not to push Estácio in the direction of enlace it with Eugênia. In this point then Mendonça appears, that if gets passionate for the heroine and then Eugênia in marriage asks for also to try to forget Helena. The Melchior Priest is who induces Helena to be married Mendonça, whose wall to the young one was evident to all. The family possuía a mansion, and close to this mansion had a simple, poor house, and Helena costuma to always visit this mansion, one day Estácio decided to follow it, and there Salvador knew, and was to take off satisfactions on the visits of Helena, Salvador started to count the great history to it, and surprised Estácio to disclosing to it that Helena was its son, not of Advising valley, and all the History of the life of Helena until there. In this exactly day Helena after one strong rain is weak, to the side of the death, Estácio, taken for its strong love it goes to take care of of Helena and it makes it this declaration. Helena, very sick, dies. Estácio is married later Eugênia, however, after the new releitura of the will and the marriage, the fact is that the personages will not be more the same ones. Estácio discrediting of the love and Eugênia married more for convenience. The death of Helena leads back the action to the initial state: not only because the plot starts with a death, but also because, with the disappearance of it, everything returns to the previous situation to the opening of a will from the Council member. Estácio is of new son only e can marry the infancy fiance'', Eugênia.
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