SILENCED VOICES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MARIA MUTEMA AND MULA-MARMELA

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the characteristics that approximate and distance the stories of Maria Mutema, a character from the novel Grande sertão: veredas (1956), by João Guimarães Rosa, and Mula-Marmela, from the short story "A benfazeja", present in the work Primeiras estórias (1962), also by the writer Guimarães Rosa. It is observed that the narratives in which these characters are inserted are similar, since they deal with the presence of evil, even though it takes on different forms and motivations.