La desintegración femenina en la Eneida de Virgilio y en Lavinia de Úrsula K. Le Guin

Abstract

In the present work we intend to study and deepen the concept of feminine disintegration in Virgil's Aeneid and in Úrsula K. Le Guin's Lavinia in a comparative way, understanding as a premise and first hypothesis that in both the Aeneid and Lavinia, women present themselves as beings in the process of disintegration. The study will be approached from the psychological (emotional disintegration) as well as the physical (bodily disintegration) point of view, covering not only the causes for which said metamorphosis is generated (in relation to the presence or absence of male figures) but also the contexts that support it. In turn, the female body will naturally be differentiated from the male one, illustrating the different features that make one "ephemeral" and the other "eternal". In this sense, this work aims to encompass different female characters to visualize the disintegration process, with special emphasis on the figure of Lavinia in both works, and thus repair the end of it.