A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 7.109 · 7.109

Cast aside for Isaura

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Desde que porém inclinou-se a Isaura, Rosa ficou inteiramente abandonada e esquecida.

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But from the moment he inclined toward Isaura, Rosa was left entirely abandoned and forgotten.

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The turn of Leôncio's appetite is told in a single verb — 'inclinou-se,' he leaned, inclined — and Rosa is discarded. She is a victim of the same predation as Isaura, one stage earlier, and the tragedy Guimarães sketches is that it makes her not a sister but an enemy: the abused turned tormentor.

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