Remedios, a bela: beleza, erotismo e poder de morte em Cem anos de solidão

Abstract

Remedios, the Beauty, female character in One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), by Gabriel García Márquez, is a testimony that “small” characters could be as complex as a main character in great works. The narrator’s speech try to convince us that the Beauty have death powers. In this masterpiece by García Márquez, four men who died in different situations have something in common: they have known Remedios. Those deaths are because they have lost their minds for the reason that she is a “deranging woman”. Her smell, her manners and her beauty became these men to be able to do things that brought their deaths. The work, full of rebellious, strong and sexual female characters, shows the Beauty as a character with a new feminine behavior, a new way to be transgressive. Our purpose was introduce her and analyze her by means of bibliographic search, as a erotic, magical and transgressive female character, telling happenings of her life. Therefore, we reached a conclusion that she has all of those characteristics, and the author isn’t sure about if she is innocent or underhanded about lecherous feelings that she causes. Helped us in this article, on theoretical and critique feminist literature field and matters of gender the research by Perrot (2007), Ribeiro (2006), Galvão e Prado Jr. (1979), Badinter (1985) and Imbriaco (2009). On theoretical and critique literature field, our analyzes were based on research by Rodrigues (1988), Vargas Liosa (2007, De La Concha (2007) and Josef (1993).