Travessias (May 2012)
SIMILARIDADES E DISTANCIAMENTOS ENTRE A PENÉLOPE DE HOMERO E A PENÉLOPE DE TREVISAN
Abstract
ABSTRACT: The present work aims to make a comparative analysis of the old tale Penelopes character, by Dalton Trevisan, and Penelope, of the work Odysseys character, epic poem attributed to Homero. The objective is to analyze, compare and demonstrate the differences and similarities between the characters, the plots in which both are involved and their social functions, keeping in mind that theyre created at different times. From the comparisons and analyzes that we present in this work, it will be possible to see the relationship between intertextuality and epic tale noted in the storys title. However, the relationship that Trevisan established between the characters and plots occur in reverse, because what is in evidence in epic poetry is love, meeting, the fidelity and solid structure of marriage, while the story which is in evidence is death, the husbands mistrust regarding the alleged infidelity of woman and marriage dissolution. Dalton Trevisan makes use of the plot of Penelope to reinvent the story through the ironic twist created a new situation consistent with the direction of society and the modern man. The Classic and The Modernity, so if snared in distance and intertextual relations endowed with new meanings.
