Critic Paper
Gloeduard G. Milanes June 24, 2013
Critique Paper Educ 103
Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
By Nick Joaquin
It is a story made by Nick Joaquin in 1952. This focuses on the Marasigan family, Don Leonardo and his son and daughters namely: Paula, Candida, Pepang, and Manolo. Candida and Paula, Don Leonardo’s two unmarried daughters are maintaining their sprawling house through the contributions of their “successful” brother and sister Manolo and Pepang. By accepting a male boarder, Tony, they survive facing the life’s challenges in them due to their father’s artistic drought. One stormy night, Don Leonardo gave his masterpiece to Candida and Paula and bids farewell to them. While praying, they heard a shout from outside, from their father whom later is found unconscious lying on the ground – committed suicide; fortunately for the sisters, Don Leonardo didn’t succeed. For how many times Candida and Paula resisted selling the portrait given to them by their father, a temptation of large amount of money which could bring them to riches. Personal liberation begins when Paula elopes with Tony. And when he came back, she destroyed the portrait due to her conflict with Candida – she torn it and burned it. The inside force that provoked Don Leonardo to paint is the way how he is treated by the sisters. The outcome was a portrait of a man carrying hardly a weak Don Leonardo. The abstract idea formed id that Don Leonardo’s stay is already a suffering carried by his son and daughters, an illness. It is related to the act of committed by Don Leonardo – suicide. Many people tempted the sisters, Candida and Paula, one of them is Tony. Tony stays only because of the portrait, he wanted to have it. No temptations ever succeed with them, it is for the reason that they treat is very special and so they wanted it to be theirs forever. But there comes the time when this portrait had caused lament to their family. The idea formed is that too much treatment
Critique Paper Educ 103
Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
By Nick Joaquin
It is a story made by Nick Joaquin in 1952. This focuses on the Marasigan family, Don Leonardo and his son and daughters namely: Paula, Candida, Pepang, and Manolo. Candida and Paula, Don Leonardo’s two unmarried daughters are maintaining their sprawling house through the contributions of their “successful” brother and sister Manolo and Pepang. By accepting a male boarder, Tony, they survive facing the life’s challenges in them due to their father’s artistic drought. One stormy night, Don Leonardo gave his masterpiece to Candida and Paula and bids farewell to them. While praying, they heard a shout from outside, from their father whom later is found unconscious lying on the ground – committed suicide; fortunately for the sisters, Don Leonardo didn’t succeed. For how many times Candida and Paula resisted selling the portrait given to them by their father, a temptation of large amount of money which could bring them to riches. Personal liberation begins when Paula elopes with Tony. And when he came back, she destroyed the portrait due to her conflict with Candida – she torn it and burned it. The inside force that provoked Don Leonardo to paint is the way how he is treated by the sisters. The outcome was a portrait of a man carrying hardly a weak Don Leonardo. The abstract idea formed id that Don Leonardo’s stay is already a suffering carried by his son and daughters, an illness. It is related to the act of committed by Don Leonardo – suicide. Many people tempted the sisters, Candida and Paula, one of them is Tony. Tony stays only because of the portrait, he wanted to have it. No temptations ever succeed with them, it is for the reason that they treat is very special and so they wanted it to be theirs forever. But there comes the time when this portrait had caused lament to their family. The idea formed is that too much treatment