O Bobo e o Dodô no compasso d’O Louco: uma análise das personagens de Shakespeare e Guarnieri à luz do arquétipo “tricksteriano”

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the character “Fool”, from the play King Lear (2020), written in 1605 by William Shakespeare, and the character “Dôdo”, from the play “Ponto de Partida” (1986), written in 1976 by Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, outlining a parallel between the characters in question and the figure of “The Fool of Tarot”. In the light of the theories of Carl Gustav Jung (2014) and Sallie Nichols (2007), we will draw a line of comparison between the Arcanum of “The Fool of Tarot” – under the archetypal “tricksterian” perspective, to say, the archetypal Fool – and the characters “Fool” and “Dôdo”, observing how these figures dialogue. In addition, by delving into their symbolic universe, we seek to better understand what the characters can tell us about their symbolic universe, their motivations and their established relationship, also taking into account the historical and social aspects in which both plays are contextualized. Finally, we conclude, in addition to the similarities shared between the “Fool” and “Dodô” with regard to the archetype of “The Fool of Tarot”, how the dramatic texts, through their characters, can bring us even closer to the structures that reassemble component parts of our own psyche.