El castigo de la mujer antagonista en las telenovelasestandarización y conservadurismo en el desenlace fatal

Résumé

The soap opera, as a cultural product depending on television fiction shows a group of standardized elements that are repeated in all its cultural manifestations. The essence of this product of fiction lies in the representation of places and scenes closely familiar to the viewer where several stories mixing ove and hate as topic take place which are easily assimilated by the public. Inside this strong repetition of plots, stereotyped characters and stories we focus on the presence of the antagonist woman, the femme fatale who is able to carry out any action in order to achieve her purpose. These soap opera femme fatale, the most important antagonist in television fiction have become an essential resource for the development of narrative plots. In addition, soap operas have revealed the fate of the female as one of the key points to take account in when developing their plots. Much has been told of the importance of women in these plots, but the power, attraction and seduction that flows from this character is enforced at their fatal fate, when the narrative logic decides to punish them for their bad actions. In this paper we try to demonstrate how the soap operas maintain a conservative logic of the concept of punishment and use it systematically, lethally and without precedents in the performance of the outcome of the femme fatale antagonist. The basic intention is to analyze the standardized way that shows the end of these characters, understanding the end of the character as one more plot, constantly present in most television serials.