A Escrava Isaura 7.44 · 7.44

Joaquina names the parallel outright: mother and daughter, old master and young, 'the same course.' It is the chapter's structural claim — history repeating on the fazenda, the machine reproducing its cruelty across generations. She sees the whole shape of the tragedy that the plot will now unfold.

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