Clavis Libri

Theme

Corruption and Decay

The rot of a person, an institution, or a civilization: corruption, decadence, decline.

The Slum

Aluísio Azevedo

the stolen stone (chapter I), the dowry refused to Florinda (chapter X), Libório's bottles (chapter XVIII), Piedade's fall (chapter XX, chapter XXII) and Pombinha's fate (chapter XXII).

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

the abandoned garden of scene 2 of Act I, the “something is rotten” of scene 4 of Act I, and the ending of scene 2 of Act V, in which the poison reaches the royal family.