The Ethics and Aesthetics of Pain

Based on the concepts of ethics and aesthetics, we can outline the representations of pain in art. Ethics is studied and sometimes understood as "morality." This same concept, represented in art, outlines the concept of aesthetics, which has undergone major transformations over the centuries. The aesthetic experience that valued beauty, as moral and physical values, now concerns everything that arouses some kind of epiphany in the recipient. Amid these definitions, in Jos Lins do Rego's novel "Fogo Morto," we can see the forms of pain and sublimation of its characters immersed in the landscape and precarious living conditions.