A Condessa de Monte Cristo: a representação da identidade da mulher presa na telenovela Insensato Coração

Abstract

Our work begins with a historical overview on the process of implementation and development of television and telenovela in Brazil. Later, carry on about the importance of television media and the fictional genre in the formation of identities, both collectively and individually. From this concept, we discussed the process of constitution of identity in modernity, based on the studies of authors affiliated to Cultural Studies, Symbolic Interaction and Social Psychology. This debate is tapered when we approached the prison as an institution recasting the identities of individuals who fall into it. Consequent to this discussion, we consider the structure of the telenovela "Insensato Coração" and the characteristics of its author, Gilberto Braga, which deploys in his stories social criticism. Having this background, we explain the methodology used, the Laurence Bardin Content Analysis. We underline our objectives, assumptions and categories that guide our analysis, which is guided in character trajectory Norma Pimentel (Gloria Pires), a woman who is blinded and imprisoned unjustly. Still within the prison, she plot revenge along the lines of the French novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas, putting it into practice when leaving prison. In this fictional route, Norma reveals a variety of illnesses found in the cloister, reveals the stigma that is attached to the individual arrested and how their identity is modified.