The Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio A Critical Essay DOCX

Title	The Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio A Critical Essay
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The Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio A Critical Essay The Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio happens to be one of the most hurtful stories in Philippine Literature set in a tribe in Cordillera Highlands, region known for it's in culture and it's peoples' obedience and conformity of tradition. The unwritten law also referred as the Law of the Father here is their bases of their day to day living and therefore, it is the one that controls the whole tribe. This story is about a husband and wife named Awiyao and Lumnay who were married for seven harvests but still were not able to bear a child of their own. As for Awiyao to affirm virility and to establish his place among his tribesmen, he had to look for another wife named Malidumay despite of his love for Lumnay. This story shows the conflict between the personal love and the love of tribe and culture, and in some cases, culture prevails. This shows how the culture prevents Awiyao and Lumnay from their freedom to love each other for lifetime. If we dig deeper to the situation, we can see that both Awiyao and Lumnay gave up their love not only because of what the culture dictates but also to save each other from the judgments of the society. If we tend to connect this story to the real life situation, we can say that people before and today are truly bound with laws that must be followed for our own welfare but sometimes we can also see these laws which control our own freedom, happiness and even desires. Sometimes we just wanted to speak out our thoughts, fight for what we think is right and try to question the law but then, we just feel that there's always something that pulls us back just like Lumnay. There are different Literary Principles used in this story that makes it very interesting to analyze. The author mainly used the dialogues and actions to reveal the character's true nature and as for the setting, he well presented a structure society where Lumnay and Awiyao lived in, bound with cultural and societal laws which established a certain definition of a true family that has a Father and a Mother and child or children, this is a clear evidence of the presence of Structuralism. This law happens to be the one that Awiyao and Lumnay failed to follow but despite of that, they knew deep in their hearts that they've done everything they could just to have a child. In order to stay part of it, they should be able to accept the reality that as members of that society, they are obliged to follow the law which is somehow related to Freud's "The Law of the Father". Lumnay's character, in the story, she was directly suspected as the one who was...