“Adam and Eve in Paradise”: the dominating power of the symbol according to a short story by Eça de Queiroz
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https://doi.org/10.19177/rcc.v12e22017315-331Keywords:
Simbolic discourse. Textual Genre. Short Story “Adam and Eve”. Eça de Queirós.Abstract
“Adam and Eve in Paradise” is a short story by Eça de Queirós. It presents an interesting dialogue between two epistemological views in permanent conflict: on one hand the Bible, representative of creationism and on the other, the evolutionary perspective. Thus, Eça faces a dialogue between those two perspectives, never excluding one over the other, assuming a neutral position. The pythagorean tetractis serves as a formal structure to the short story. This pyramid is completed and ornamented with the resources and dominating force that the symbols lend to it: on one hand, the figures compete to compose the temporal sequences (of creation and evolution) that make up the plot; on the other, the symbolism of the elements will lead, step by step, to the humanization state of Adam, within the complementarity of Eve who hits the stones of civilization, toward perfection revealed in artistic activity.Downloads
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2017-12-19
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