ภาพลักษณ์ของผู้หญิงกับบทบาทสิ่งรองรับความปรารถนาในวรรณกรรมโปรตุเกส: กรณีศึกษา Os Maias โดย Eça de Queiroz

Abstract

In literary world, many male writers have written about ‘woman’. This article aims to analyze the method and the reason of the representation of ‘woman’ in Portuguese literature through its female protagonist Maria Eduarda da Maia from Os Maias by Eça de Queiroz. The analysis of how this character is constructed along with ‘Triangular desire’ theory by René Girard and the philosophical conceptualization about desire are applied to have the result. It was found that Maria Eduarda is a dependent character, created by Donjuanesque desire of Carlos. She is created to only hold the role of object of desire in the story which made her an absent and imagined ‘perfect’ woman.