'A terrible effect of jealousy'
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terrivel effeito do ciume, que torna injustas e rancorosas as almas ainda as mais candidas e benevolentes.
a terrible effect of jealousy, which makes unjust and rancorous even the most candid and benevolent souls.
The narrator generalizes the tragedy into a maxim on jealousy: it is a 'terrivel effeito' that 'torna injustas e rancorosas as almas ainda as mais candidas e benevolentes' — makes unjust and rancorous even the most candid and benevolent souls. The point excuses Malvina while indicting the passion: her goodness is real, but jealousy corrupts good hearts too, and so Isaura loses her last defender not to malice but to a poisoned love.
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