Disertaciones (Jul 2009)
Who’s Betty? Between the Fea and the Ugly
Abstract
Why a soap opera with an argument like Betty, la fea is a big hit into so dissimilar tastes like the Colombian and Latin-American followers of the genre? The soap opera is a genre that had its origin, principally, of this side of the world. Betty, the ugly one, has the archetypal elements that identify whom it sees with what it sees. The most attractive of this history is the form how it is deeply entrenched in the myth of the romantic love even if its energy is canalized in the tense moral, economic and emotional negotiations that complicate the rituals of the courtship. It is not said here that the life should be idyllic, calm, harmonic, and always happy; this soap opera proposes a reflection on the investment of the archetypal models of the novel in Latin America.
