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Magnificence

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Bhelle Cruz
Bhelle Cruz

Estrella Alfon was a prominent Filipino writer known for her short stories set in Cebu. Her story "Magnificence" tells of a tutor who gains the trust of a family but begins to show inappropriate affection towards the young daughter. When the mother discovers this, she slaps the man and has her daughter throw out the gifts he had given her. The story highlights the importance of protecting children and being wary of those they are entrusted with, as well as the psychological effects of the oppression of women and children. It demonstrates how power imbalances in gender relationships can enable the abuse of the vulnerable.

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MAGNIFICENCE Estrella Alfon Educ 211 Ma. Isabel B. Cruz MAE- English 3rd Tri. AY 2015- 2016
Author’s Background Estrella D. Alfon (1918 - 1983) Management Fundamentals - Chapter 14 2
Personal Born in Cebu, Alfon set many of her stories in the fictional community of Espeleta, a recognizable lower middle-class district of that city. Though she wrote mostly in English, she also wrote some stories in Cebuano. Of the women writers of the region, she is among the most prominent. 3
Achievements 1940: A collection of her early short stories, “Dear Esmeralda,” won Honorable Mention in the Commonwealth Literary Award. 1961-1962: Four of her one-act plays won all the prizes in the Arena Theater Play Writing Contest: “Losers Keepers” (first prize), “Strangers” (second prize), “Rice” (third prize), and “Beggar” (fourth prize). 1961-1962: Won top prize in the Palanca Contest for “With Patches of Many Hues.” 1974: Second place Palanca Award for her short story, "The White Dress".[6] 1979: National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U.P. Creative Writing Center.
Palanca Awards Estrella Alfon has won the Palanca Awards a number of times: Forever Witches, One-act Play (Third place, 1960) With Patches of Many Hues, One-act Play (First place, 1962) Tubig, One-act Play (Second place, 1963) The Knitting Straw, One-act Play, (Third place, 1968) The White Dress, Short Story (Second place, 1974)
Stories Magnificence and Other Stories (1960) Stories of Estrella Alfon (1994) (published posthumously) Servant Girl (short story) 6
Literary Background The Alfon fictional world is defined by family relationships: between parents (especially the mother) and children, women and lovers, wife and husband, women and their female friends. Where Alfon explores the mother-child relationship, her stories become most powerful and intriguing. “Magnificence” is unmatched for its quiet intensity, its ability to stop short of spelling out its potential horrors. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 14 7
Literary Background Alfon’s fictional world is largely a world of women and children, elements traditionally marginalized by literary criticism. Alfon offers the reader women characters: some strong, some weak, most stoic; many victims, a few overcoming initial disadvantages bequeathed to them by nature and nurture.
Synopsis of Magnificence There is couple with a son and a daughter. Their parents have a good job. They go to school. Their mother is a president in their village. In a meeting the man volunteered to be their tutor because he doesn’t do anything in the evening also for an extra job. His name is Vicente. He is a bus conductor. So he went to the house every night to teach the kids.
Synopsis of Magnificence He promised the kids to give them 2 pencils each. One night he gives the pencil to the kids. That time it was the "it". The children in this time want pencils. Vincent is nice to the children. He knows their wants. But when he gave the pencil, he gives 3 pencils for the girl and 2 for the boy. Their mother said to say thank you.
The boy kissed Vicente but Vicente told him that boys don't kiss boys. Then the girl goes to Vicente to say thank you. He hugs her so tight and the girl started to get out of his too tight hug. The girl looks at Vicente with a little wonder on his face. The next day they were so proud and happy with their new pencils. They showed it to their friends in class. They also thought of asking Vicente for new pencils.
In dinner they talked a little about Vicente but the father is busy reading something. He did not listen to what the mother said. The mother thinks that Vicente is fond of the children with the way he is treating them. That evening Vicente arrived earlier. The children are proud of the pencil. Their classmates are jealous with their new pencils given by Vicente. He asked the little boy to get him a glass of water. Then he put the girl on his lap.
Then he let the girl write her homework. The little girl told him not to carry her because she is heavy. Vicente is perspiring, and his eyes are strange. Then the girl jumped out of his lap because she became afraid. Then their mom arrived. She rubs the girls back and told them to go upstairs.
The mother slapped the man repeatedly. Vicente just accepts the entire slap that the mother gave him. Then he went out of the house. The mother closed the door. She gives a bath to the girl. Then she asked them to throw the pencil. Then she put her to sleep.
Theme
Theme
Implications of the story primacy of the mother-daughter bond as well as into the psychological oppression of women and children, especially daughters, which emerges into the light of consciousness once the mask of false chivalry is wrenched away
Implications of the story implications of pedophiliac tendencies are proof that the sexual relationship between male and female has been seen as the basic ground for the physical and psychological domination of the male over the female
Implications of the story This can be read by parents for them to realize that you need to maybe check on the people that you trust your child with. You cannot trust everyone around you. Your children are very precious. As a parent you want them to be always safe with the people around. 19
Implications of the story Woman POWER!!! Who run the world???Girls!!!
References “The Filipina As Writer: Against All Odds,” critical essay by Prof. Thelma E. Arambulo. Published in its entirety in Women Reading… Feminist Perspectives on Philippine Literary Texts.” Ed. Thelma B. Kintanar. Quezon City: UP Press & University Center for Women’s Studies, 1992, 170-175.

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Magnificence

  • 1. MAGNIFICENCE Estrella Alfon Educ 211 Ma. Isabel B. Cruz MAE- English 3rd Tri. AY 2015- 2016
  • 2. Author’s Background Estrella D. Alfon (1918 - 1983) Management Fundamentals - Chapter 14 2
  • 3. Personal Born in Cebu, Alfon set many of her stories in the fictional community of Espeleta, a recognizable lower middle-class district of that city. Though she wrote mostly in English, she also wrote some stories in Cebuano. Of the women writers of the region, she is among the most prominent. 3
  • 4. Achievements 1940: A collection of her early short stories, “Dear Esmeralda,” won Honorable Mention in the Commonwealth Literary Award. 1961-1962: Four of her one-act plays won all the prizes in the Arena Theater Play Writing Contest: “Losers Keepers” (first prize), “Strangers” (second prize), “Rice” (third prize), and “Beggar” (fourth prize). 1961-1962: Won top prize in the Palanca Contest for “With Patches of Many Hues.” 1974: Second place Palanca Award for her short story, "The White Dress".[6] 1979: National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U.P. Creative Writing Center.
  • 5. Palanca Awards Estrella Alfon has won the Palanca Awards a number of times: Forever Witches, One-act Play (Third place, 1960) With Patches of Many Hues, One-act Play (First place, 1962) Tubig, One-act Play (Second place, 1963) The Knitting Straw, One-act Play, (Third place, 1968) The White Dress, Short Story (Second place, 1974)
  • 6. Stories Magnificence and Other Stories (1960) Stories of Estrella Alfon (1994) (published posthumously) Servant Girl (short story) 6
  • 7. Literary Background The Alfon fictional world is defined by family relationships: between parents (especially the mother) and children, women and lovers, wife and husband, women and their female friends. Where Alfon explores the mother-child relationship, her stories become most powerful and intriguing. “Magnificence” is unmatched for its quiet intensity, its ability to stop short of spelling out its potential horrors. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 14 7
  • 8. Literary Background Alfon’s fictional world is largely a world of women and children, elements traditionally marginalized by literary criticism. Alfon offers the reader women characters: some strong, some weak, most stoic; many victims, a few overcoming initial disadvantages bequeathed to them by nature and nurture.
  • 9. Synopsis of Magnificence There is couple with a son and a daughter. Their parents have a good job. They go to school. Their mother is a president in their village. In a meeting the man volunteered to be their tutor because he doesn’t do anything in the evening also for an extra job. His name is Vicente. He is a bus conductor. So he went to the house every night to teach the kids.
  • 10. Synopsis of Magnificence He promised the kids to give them 2 pencils each. One night he gives the pencil to the kids. That time it was the "it". The children in this time want pencils. Vincent is nice to the children. He knows their wants. But when he gave the pencil, he gives 3 pencils for the girl and 2 for the boy. Their mother said to say thank you.
  • 11. The boy kissed Vicente but Vicente told him that boys don't kiss boys. Then the girl goes to Vicente to say thank you. He hugs her so tight and the girl started to get out of his too tight hug. The girl looks at Vicente with a little wonder on his face. The next day they were so proud and happy with their new pencils. They showed it to their friends in class. They also thought of asking Vicente for new pencils.
  • 12. In dinner they talked a little about Vicente but the father is busy reading something. He did not listen to what the mother said. The mother thinks that Vicente is fond of the children with the way he is treating them. That evening Vicente arrived earlier. The children are proud of the pencil. Their classmates are jealous with their new pencils given by Vicente. He asked the little boy to get him a glass of water. Then he put the girl on his lap.
  • 13. Then he let the girl write her homework. The little girl told him not to carry her because she is heavy. Vicente is perspiring, and his eyes are strange. Then the girl jumped out of his lap because she became afraid. Then their mom arrived. She rubs the girls back and told them to go upstairs.
  • 14. The mother slapped the man repeatedly. Vicente just accepts the entire slap that the mother gave him. Then he went out of the house. The mother closed the door. She gives a bath to the girl. Then she asked them to throw the pencil. Then she put her to sleep.
  • 15. Theme
  • 16. Theme
  • 17. Implications of the story primacy of the mother-daughter bond as well as into the psychological oppression of women and children, especially daughters, which emerges into the light of consciousness once the mask of false chivalry is wrenched away
  • 18. Implications of the story implications of pedophiliac tendencies are proof that the sexual relationship between male and female has been seen as the basic ground for the physical and psychological domination of the male over the female
  • 19. Implications of the story This can be read by parents for them to realize that you need to maybe check on the people that you trust your child with. You cannot trust everyone around you. Your children are very precious. As a parent you want them to be always safe with the people around. 19
  • 20. Implications of the story Woman POWER!!! Who run the world???Girls!!!
  • 21. References “The Filipina As Writer: Against All Odds,” critical essay by Prof. Thelma E. Arambulo. Published in its entirety in Women Reading… Feminist Perspectives on Philippine Literary Texts.” Ed. Thelma B. Kintanar. Quezon City: UP Press & University Center for Women’s Studies, 1992, 170-175.