Machado De assis begins the novel by introducing the main character, Dom Casmurro, a solitary man who enjoys his own company.He paints a back story as to how the character came to merit his Nickname and shows how others his community view him. The author illustrates the seemingly solitary life of the main character through, the dull structure, the awkward language and the one sided description of the protagonist.
Primarily, Assis uses the public and personal views of the protagonist that he presents in order to show the lack of social skilled and the of the narrator. The narrator is shown to be very aware of his off-putting attitude and how others view him as a outsider. The author emphasis’s Dom Casmurro’s awkward nature by opening the
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book at a point in which he is in a forced conversation, “I closed my eyes three or four times.” from the start of the novel we learn that he is a misunderstood and rather disliked member of society. His attempts to rectify his perceived rude attitude goes unnoticed showing how he is unable to give off a good impression.We find out how self aware and self conscious he his rather daly in the extract, “my neighbours, who do not like my taciturn, recluse- like habits.” His friends and neighbours descried as reclusive, withdrawn this is reflected in his nickname,” a morose, tight lipped man withdrawn within himself.”The author suggests self hatred with Dom Casmurro as he does not mention any of his good qualities but lingers on the negative.
Despite the fact that his actions are innocent and he does not mean to offend we as readers nor do the community feel pity of him. Despite the fact that his name has negative connotations he does not give it much notice because of obvious inability to connect on an emotional level. He brings up the fact that he is a outcast by stating that he stays at home most of the time and enjoys his own company. His reclusive and lonely life does not evoke any emotion form the reader because of the robotic and …show more content…
detached nature of the character. The author paints him as someone who wants to change his ways and reconnect to his past in a circular way. “My purpose was to tie together the two ends of my life, restore adolescence in old age.” He later states that he fails in his venture to return to he once was, “well, sir I did not succeed.” He could unattached to the present because of the fact that he wants to live in the past. In addition, Machado uses the dry, monotonous and uneventful narrative to reflect the emotional nature of the unusual character.
despite the retrospective narrative the character seems unable to come to a greater understanding which he seems to want. The lack of emotion behind his speech is reflected throughout he fact that he does not come to any conclusions. The text does not have an easy to read follow as it does not follow one topic and the narrator thinks as though it is to an audience, “I wanted change. What if I wrote a book?” the sentences shown the narrators thoughts and the fact that they can be hard to follow sometimes show his uneasily state. The use of a mix of short and long sentences show his confusion. The text convey a solum and dreary tone giving the ready an idea of how the life of the narrator is, it moves at a slow and uneventful pace. There is also irony in the extract as Dom Casmurro talks of certain topics being dull and meaningless, “Then i though of writing a History of the suburbs, something less dry. This quote is ironic as he believes his life as well is dry and tedious but it is the concentration of the first two chapters. Despite the fact the language is slightly hesitate and uncomfortable the author tries to involve the audience into he life of the the protagonist using the internal monologue. Machado writes the internal monologue as though it is a conversation, “Don’t consult your
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When it comes to analyzing the “banana massacre” scene in chapter 15, I found three narrative techniques the author used to describe this scene. Therefore, one can notice that this part of the book is the climax. As a result, one infers what the author is trying to say about Latin American history and politics.
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To what extent does the narrative Martinez begin with make you want to read further?
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Several months prior to the opening of the story, the Colonel’s son, Agustín, had been killed at a cockfight for distributing secret political literature. The Colonel is torn between his desire to keep his son’s prizefighting cock in order to enter it into the cockfights in January and his need to sell it to provide food for himself and his wife. The story focuses primarily on the Colonel’s pride in trying to conceal his poverty-stricken state and his ironic and humorous outlook to his situation. The central metaphors in the story are the pension, which never arrives, but for which the colonel never ceases to hope, and the fighting cock, which also represents hope, as well as his son’s, and therefore the whole village’s, political rebellion. Although at the time, he was under political oppression he keeps his pride and dignity.
He uses different stylistic devices to express this as indeed yet to be explored in this study. The target audiences in this study include students of literature who would benefit from the way ideas are explored and communicated, more so in regards to identifying the hidden intended message by the author to his