The last revolutionary: Ernesto, dramatic text by Rafael Minvielle

Abstract

This article carries out a textual analysis of the selected play. Within the framework of such methodology, we will work in terms of semantic macrostructures; that is, themes and macro- propositions as basic categories. The above aims to demonstrate that El mundo dramático de Ernesto, a work written and published in 1842 by the Spaniard living in Chile, Rafael Minvielle, was a creation that revealed and disseminated the ideologies that reproduced or resisted power through its two main characters. Consequently, the reading developed is based on the premise that Minvielle's dramatic composition, directly influenced by the context of production and as a political instrument at the service of the recent nation, instills a set of values and aspirations that interpret the country's feelings. At the time of the publication of the text, the country was emerging from a period of transition and instability (revolutionary struggle for independence, prior to the 1920s, plus the subsequent civil war of 1829-30), and was looking for principles that would allow it to project itself with certainty into the civil and political future.