Análisis de los personajes en la obra Un País lleno de Leyendas de Graciela Eldredge

Abstract

The analysis of the characters of the literary work: A country full with the Ecuadorian author's legends, Graciela Eldredge, describes how in the construction of twenty four different histories, a cultural positioning is glimpsed that identifies us historically, with each one of the counties that refers. The contents theoretical guided toward the comparative analysis of the characters, the classification was made by times to which you/they belong; locating fifteen legends in the prehispanic stage, four in the colonial period and five legends in the phase post colonial. The characters of the legends have characteristic according to the time to the one that belong, with aboriginal prevalence, later on the Spaniards appear as antagonistic fellows, then with the presence of mixed characters. The characters represent icons, symbols and some are archetypes that you/they live in the imaginary one cultural of the towns, reflecting plausible and popular wisdom, being unwrapped in real scenarios. The colonial legends and post colonial help to understand the existent syncretism in our newspaper to live, product of the mixture of the cultures native and Hispanic.