Death in the work of Jorge Amado: The function of art in education for death

Abstract

Introduction

Review the work of Jorge Amado in the thanatological hermeneutics makes it come to be apparent the role of art in shaping the popular imagination and its educational purpose, which art cannot do without.

Objective

The purpose of this research is to present that, Jorge Amado using various methods causes a semiotic and polysemic reading of life and a hermeneutics review of death, making his literary art an instrument of education for death.

Methods

Using the transversal method of bibliography review of the author's work.

Results

We noted that in the anthropology of Jorge Amado, death might be the exercise of power, as those legitimated by a theology casuistry, in “Violent Land”. However, death can be an element of transformation of the state of life and overcoming the limits of the roles that society has agreed to be played by its subject, paradigm of this counterculture is Livia, widow of Guma in “Sea of Death”. In “The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray” dead and death inset in starring roles, provoking a psychological reflection about death as a complex dimension, able to have their own intentions and itinerary and, assigning the dead freedom and responsibility for his death and die, the author will say: “Everyone take care of your own funeral.”

Conclusion

Death has the function of unveiling character and affections, and balance all forces presents in the society, and the art is the instrument to that reflection reach the community.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.