"LITERATURE"

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Si Malakas at si Maganda (The Strong and Beautiful)

~Si Malakas at si Maganda  (The Strong and Beautiful)~


This is a very popular folk tale in the country and has varied details in different provinces all over the Philipines. Nevertheless, i would like to share the essence of the story to all those who want to read and go back to the stories of our yesteryears. 
This story was made by ancient filipinos in order to explain the mystery of the origin of humankind. According to this folk tale, there was nothing in the world but the sea, the sky, a piece of land, a bamboo tree, and a bird. The bird was on the bamboo and heard sounds in a couple of bamboo trees so it tried to break the bamboo trees through its beak. After sometime, the bamboo trees broke and a man and a woman came out. The man was called Malakas, and the woman, Maganda. They then started a family and produced children who filled the archipelago.
The name Malakas and Maganda also denote a deeper meaning and truth about Filipino culture. Filipinos consider women to be maganda or beautiful,sweet, and soft; while men as malakas or strong and sturdy human being to whom the family can depend on at all times especially in times of trouble and disasters in life...

5 comments:

  1. My analogy:
    This story is just a hearsay but it express the attitude of the Filipinos.

    ReplyDelete
  2. My analogy:
    Truly that no man is an island. No one can live alone or by himself/ herself that's why the bird is trying to figure out if there really is a creature inside the bamboo for the bird itself feel lonely.

    ReplyDelete
  3. My analogy:
    Maganda represents here the Filipino women who are beautiful,sweet, and soft. But nowadays, Filipino women are very different from what we used to know. A lot of women now is too liberated, not sweet.

    ReplyDelete
  4. My analogy:
    Malakas here represents Filipino men who are strong, the family can depend on. But nowadays,there are men who are not working but rather staying in the house and do the household chores.

    ReplyDelete
  5. My analogy:
    It says here that after they saw each other, they make a family.We can see here that man is for as woman. And a woman is for a man. Nothing more, nothing less, there's no in-between.

    ReplyDelete