An Analyzation of 'The Ritual' by Cirilo F. Bautista
Title:
The Ritual by Cirilo F. Bautista
Theme:
Having different beliefs or challenging the norms can put you up against everyone.
Characters:
Narrator - The story was shown through his point of view. He is a friend of Dayleg.
Dayleg - The protagonist of the story and a dynamic character. He was a brave man who wanted to see a change in society and the people.
Dayleg's Father - He is a flat character. Opposed Dayleg and his beliefs greatly and is the leader of the village.
Lumawig - Can be considered as the antagonist of the story. He is the God of the people.
Village people - Stock characters. They also opposed Dayleg and his beliefs.
Summary:
The story takes us through a man named Dayleg who wanted to challenge the beliefs of the men and women that lived in their village by killing a sacred animal. The narrator and Dayleg went to the mountains to hunt for the sacred white boar the villagers were talking to them about. The now dead boar was taken to the village and placed it on the grass the villagers considered sacred and waited for someone to discover the carcass. As expected, people went ballistic when they saw the animal. Dayleg preached about killing the boar would bring no harm to him or to the people but his father told him otherwise and resolved to pray for his son's sin. Not long after, he disappeared into the city and would later show up after two years in front of the narrator's home. Later that night when he returned, a sacrifice was scheduled to happen and while no one expected this, even the narrator, he showed up at the site and was dancing to repent for the sins he committed in the past.
Dayleg symbolizes the activists during the Marcos era who revolted against the government and who were determined to educate the people on the government's deceiving ways. Lumawig was somewhat like Marcos or the government since he/them imposed rules on the people and if they didn't follow the ordained rules, they would be punished by the 'gods.' The village people, especially Dayleg's father, were portrayed as the citizens of the Philippines who were 'brainwashed' by the government to think that way. They were led to think that hunting was the greatest sin of all time and they would be punished if they were to break that rule. Dayleg wanted to challenge them in order to break free from the constricting ideas imposed by Lumawig. Even if Dayleg just wanted to free his people, in the end, he was still deemed as mad.
The traits of each character in the story reflected the society during the Marcos regime and how some wanted to be freed from the grasp of the government and how some blindly praised them because they thought that it was the best for them.
The Ritual by Cirilo F. Bautista
Theme:
Having different beliefs or challenging the norms can put you up against everyone.
Characters:
Narrator - The story was shown through his point of view. He is a friend of Dayleg.
Dayleg - The protagonist of the story and a dynamic character. He was a brave man who wanted to see a change in society and the people.
Dayleg's Father - He is a flat character. Opposed Dayleg and his beliefs greatly and is the leader of the village.
Lumawig - Can be considered as the antagonist of the story. He is the God of the people.
Village people - Stock characters. They also opposed Dayleg and his beliefs.
Summary:
The story takes us through a man named Dayleg who wanted to challenge the beliefs of the men and women that lived in their village by killing a sacred animal. The narrator and Dayleg went to the mountains to hunt for the sacred white boar the villagers were talking to them about. The now dead boar was taken to the village and placed it on the grass the villagers considered sacred and waited for someone to discover the carcass. As expected, people went ballistic when they saw the animal. Dayleg preached about killing the boar would bring no harm to him or to the people but his father told him otherwise and resolved to pray for his son's sin. Not long after, he disappeared into the city and would later show up after two years in front of the narrator's home. Later that night when he returned, a sacrifice was scheduled to happen and while no one expected this, even the narrator, he showed up at the site and was dancing to repent for the sins he committed in the past.
Dayleg symbolizes the activists during the Marcos era who revolted against the government and who were determined to educate the people on the government's deceiving ways. Lumawig was somewhat like Marcos or the government since he/them imposed rules on the people and if they didn't follow the ordained rules, they would be punished by the 'gods.' The village people, especially Dayleg's father, were portrayed as the citizens of the Philippines who were 'brainwashed' by the government to think that way. They were led to think that hunting was the greatest sin of all time and they would be punished if they were to break that rule. Dayleg wanted to challenge them in order to break free from the constricting ideas imposed by Lumawig. Even if Dayleg just wanted to free his people, in the end, he was still deemed as mad.
The traits of each character in the story reflected the society during the Marcos regime and how some wanted to be freed from the grasp of the government and how some blindly praised them because they thought that it was the best for them.
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