It was what it took the king to make a promise of raising a convent in Mafra, case the conception occurred. It represents the woman who through the dream will only become free itself of its aristocratic condition of assuming its feminilidade. The onrica trespass is the only expression that the queen loses, who has a guilt feeling, for feeling a pecaminosa attraction for brother-in-law D. Francisco, leads it to this to make a constant search of redemption through the conjunct and of sacerdotal confession. It lives in a repressive environment with prohibitions that conduct its existence and for which do not have exit, not to be through its dreams, where she will be able in fact to explore its sexuality. with the responsibility of of the successive one to the king, even so conscientious of the virility and infidelity of the husband, who has some bastard children.
It assumes a misfortune and passivity attitude before the life. E, thus, D. Maria Ana lives pressured for the responsibility to give heirs to the husband, since the guilt of such not yet to have happened is of it, therefore sterility as it remembers the narrator well, ironically, is not problem of the men, what it proves the virility of the king. In this environment where the prohibitions and repressions dictated for the Church and the State intervene directly with the behavior, it is forbidden any attitude that runs away to the standards of the model of family demanded by the society. In way to the luxury and the wealth, D. Maria Ana inside goes accumulating of itself a sensuality that cannot explore, since its sexual meeting with the king they represent solely the fulfilment of the conjugal duty. The figure of the Blimunda personage, sensual woman and exempts In contrast of the queen, Blimunda, is a woman with strong characteristics, sensuality and intelligence.