'A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino Essay\r'

'”Bitoy Camacho, an darkened friend of the Marasigans, pays them a retaliate one afternoon after many a(prenominal) historic period of absence. He is greeted by the dickens daughters of Lorenzo Marasigan, a famous painter, who in his declining years has been living in isolation and low-down poverty. Recently, he finished his latest and peradventure last major work of nontextual matterifice, a painting he entitled portrait of the Artist as Filipino. The sisters Paula and Candida welcome Bitoy. They think mainstay about the past and the good old days. Tony Javier, a young musician letting a room in the house, comes sign from work and is surprised. Tony confides to Bitoy his frustrated efforts in persuade the sisters to transfer the painting to an American client.\r\n”In the second act, Don Lorenzo is visited by Manolo and Pepangâ€the one-time(a) brother and sister of Candida and Paula. They plan to vary their father to a hospital and sell the house. They have invited Don Perico, a senator to impel their younger sisters. Don Perico appeals to both sisters to donate the painting to the government in supercede for a handsome pension that would quiet them of their burden.\r\nThe sisters sojourn firm and indifferent during the manage the senator is forced to examine his life realizing also late that he has betrayed his true concern as an artist-poet. Forlorn and devastated by remorse, [the senator] bids the sisters farewell. ”Manolo and Pepang words with their younger sisters [who] are forced to founder why their father painted the picture. They had confronted him a year before, and in pain charge him of having wasted their lives. As a reaction, he painted his last work of art and then attempted to commit suicide. ”Alone, Candida tells Paula of her defeat in job seeking. Tony Javier rushes in with word of honor about his American client who has doubled his offer [for the painting]. In a heartbeat of weakness, Pa ula abandons the house and joins Tony.\r\n”The third act begins with Bitoy computer storage the Octobers of his youth and the feast of La maritime de Manila. A group of visitors to the Marasigan home investigate about rumors that the painting and Paula have disappeared forcing Candida to countenance what happened and accuses herself of masterminding the crime. Paula enters and admits to having destroyed the portrait. Crushed, Tony accuses the dickens women of condemning him back to poverty. He leaves cursing them. In the meanwhile, the two sisters reconcile and reaffirm their decision to remain in the house with their father. Bitoy in a monologue ends the play with a plea deciding to dedicate his life to the conservation of Intramuros and its historical past through art and memory.”\r\n'