PLAYFULNESS AND VIOLENCE IN SCOTER

Abstract

This article adopts the purpose of making a reflection about the talent that  the literary genres has in dealing with issues such as dementia and playful in its plot, and offers readers, researchers and advocates of school education, principally for the basic education a pedagogical tool in the field of playfulness and aggression, educational forum messages. Inspiration for the tale Negrinha,  from Monteiro Lobato, this article has as methodological task to analyze the conceptual lines from Homo demens and Homo ludens when narrates aggression, violence and moments of joy experienced by the character - seven year old girl, and black orphan who is deprived of being a child. Buoyed in the theoretical Homo demens resorted to Georges Balandier, Roger Dadoun and Nilo Odalia; to the inputs of Homo ludens, invite Gilles Brougère, Johan Huizinga and Walter Benjamin. Analyzing the moments of joy and suffering experienced by the character we realize the importance of playfulness to humans and could also record an educational approach in treat violence through art. As educational messages disposed of this experience, remain thelessons that these genres (fables, fairy tales, folklore, legends, serials...) offer by transit, either by the tragic path of Homo demens, or by the chance meeting of the presence of toys and their Homo ludens, which help children to hide from the "horrors of adult culture" as Benjamin stresses. As verified findings: 1) First, it is necessary to realize the importance of playfulness to human life: play, joke, have fun is essential for humans, greatly through this language when the child develops, learns, interacts, if holds and acquires a conscience. 2) Being an archetypal characteristic of the man the aggression, only through education can we try to eliminate it, alleviate or soothe it, to turn not violent.