O ponto de vista narrativo em Poe

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Aquino, Paula Silveira de
• Orientador(a): Amaral, Gloria Carneiro do
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Palavras-chave em Português: Edgar Allan Poe; ponto de vista narrativo; personagem
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Edgar Allan Poe; narrative point of view; character
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25250

This Mastership Dissertation presents analysis of the narrative point of view in the short-stories "The fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", and "Berenice", by Edgar Allan Poe, with basis on theories by Norman Friedman, which is approached by Ligia Chiappini Moraes Leite (2002), and Wayne C. Booth, about the unreliable narrator Some theoretical considerations approached by Poe, in the "Philosophy of the composition" (1846) and in other essays translated by Baudelaire (2003), are also utilized. Considerations by Todorov (2004), Freud (1919), Jung (1961) apud Philippov (1999), and Castex (1951) apud Philippov (1999), about fantastic theories are also approached. It is verified that all the analyzed works are narrated in first person. It means that the narrator is always a participating character of the story. It was possible to evidence that there is, in all of them, a contradiction between what the narrator proposes himself to do and that which is permitted by the situation he is inserted in. The trials in helping a friend, who lives in a full of melancholy house, to alleviate a nervous agitation are all vain, since it is the mansion‟s owner who ushers the narrator to execute his habitual activities. In the second short-story, the character who does not accept to be called mad and wants to show all the calm, precaution and perfection he had when he killed the old man he used to look after, suffers from an acuteness of the sense of hearing, which makes him hear the beats of the murdered man‟s heart. This sound shows the limits between the narrator's calm and fury, until the moment in which he, believing that the policemen could hear the same thing he could, and would be making a mockery of him, confesses the crime. Finally, the narrator Egaeus is conscious that he always had a bad health and recognizes that his reality of life is different from the one of other characters around him. In spite of saying that he does not seek to convince, Egaeus makes long explanations about the features of his illness and tries to avoid technical language, so that the common reader is able to comprehend him. He hopes that the revelation of his consciousness of the crime, and of the consequent family dishonor could assuage his guilt.