Ganito kami noon, Paano kayo ngayon?
A young Filipino living at the end of the 19th century has his own
agenda for his life -- he wants to travel and experience new places. His
agenda is cut short when he inadvertently gets involved with a whole
underground of marginal characters, including one priest who is a father
in both the clerical and secular sense of the term and needs to find
his son. Both the young man and the priest gain in following and power
as the Filipino revolt against the Spaniards grows. Complicating
everything is
an attractive woman, and
the young man will soon have to decide which direction he really wants
to take -- that of a revolutionary leader, or the solitary wanderer that
still resides somewhere inside him.
Interpretation :
Ganito kami noon, Paano kayo ngayon is an example of Post-Colonialism Theory. This story
situates the readers to the history and it shows the negative impacts that a
colonized country has undergone. It features men dealing with poverty and its
impact on women's lives. The play melds the dark realities of
life under the Spaniards. The reality of this story being adapted from the ideas which
surrounds a colonized country is perfectly considered under the
post-colonialism literary theory.
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