A SOCIEDADE PATRIARCAL E A OPRESSÃO DA MULHER: uma mirada sobre as personagens femininas em O primo Basílio

The research we present here aims to analyze how patriarchal society conditioned the woman of the nineteenth century to a position of subalternity. The object of study was the work O Primo Basílio de Eça de Queirós, published in 1878, with a clipping of analysis directed to the characters Luisa, Leopoldina and Juliana. As an analysis model, the Feminist Criticism was based on texts by Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda (2018) and Ribeiro (2021). In order to analyze 18th century society and how it reversed a prejudiced and oppressive discourse in relation to the condition of women. In addition, used as theorist Carlos Reis (1975; 2009 and 2018) specialist in Queirosian studies and Francisco Dantas (1999). The perspective of interpretation and analysis was supported by showing how the society in question was conservative and contradictory with regard to the female figure, since women were discriminated against and silenced by the precepts of patriarchy