Os mecanismos de persuasão nos Autos da Alma e da Feira de Gil Vicente

Abstract

This dissertation analyses the rhetorical processes in two moralities of Gil Vicente Auto da Alma and Auto da Feira. It has the goal to verify how the speeches of the characters associated with the structure of the autos were built with the aim to promote the moral and religious building, having as theoretical grounds the rhetoric and theological foundation of Santo Agostinho. Thus, analyzes the persuasive character of the moralities in medievals sermons, searching for eventuals analogies that could exist between them. One fair where sells virtues and vices, and a soul between the requests of an angel and a devil. These situations show themselves advantageous to rhetorical practice, where will be successful who better take use of the power of word persuation. Thus, becomes recurrent the approximation of the rhetoric practice and the moralities of Gil Vicente, because the essential character of the rhetoric in the transmission of a doctrine, provide means to identify in the autos chosen what is susceptible to persuade