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    Critique Paper: The Wedding Dance'

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    The story "The Wedding Dance" by Amador T. Daguio depicts a couple from an ethnic tribe in the Philippines who wish to divorce due to the wife's infertility. However, a law in the tribe dictates that husbands who divorce their wives without valid reason must relinquish all property to the wife and children. This critique analyzes how the story shows the conflict between personal love and cultural traditions. The law prevents the couple from staying together their whole lives. While the culture influenced their decision to separate, they also did so to avoid judgment from society. Laws are meant to protect rights, but this one seems unjust as it forces the couple apart just because they cannot have children.

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    Critique Paper: The Wedding Dance'

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    The story "The Wedding Dance" by Amador T. Daguio depicts a couple from an ethnic tribe in the Philippines who wish to divorce due to the wife's infertility. However, a law in the tribe dictates that husbands who divorce their wives without valid reason must relinquish all property to the wife and children. This critique analyzes how the story shows the conflict between personal love and cultural traditions. The law prevents the couple from staying together their whole lives. While the culture influenced their decision to separate, they also did so to avoid judgment from society. Laws are meant to protect rights, but this one seems unjust as it forces the couple apart just because they cannot have children.

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    The story "The Wedding Dance" by Amador T. Daguio depicts a couple from an ethnic tribe in the Philippines who wish to divorce due to the wife's infertility. However, a law in the tribe dictates that husbands who divorce their wives without valid reason must relinquish all property to the wife and children. This critique analyzes how the story shows the conflict between personal love and cultural traditions. The law prevents the couple from staying together their whole lives. While the culture influenced their decision to separate, they also did so to avoid judgment from society. Laws are meant to protect rights, but this one seems unjust as it forces the couple apart just because they cannot have children.

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    Critique Paper: The Wedding Dance'

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    Jessie Aquillo
    The story "The Wedding Dance" by Amador T. Daguio depicts a couple from an ethnic tribe in the Philippines who wish to divorce due to the wife's infertility. However, a law in the tribe dictates that husbands who divorce their wives without valid reason must relinquish all property to the wife and children. This critique analyzes how the story shows the conflict between personal love and cultural traditions. The law prevents the couple from staying together their whole lives. While the culture influenced their decision to separate, they also did so to avoid judgment from society. Laws are meant to protect rights, but this one seems unjust as it forces the couple apart just because they cannot have children.

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    Critique Paper: ‘The Wedding Dance’

    Jessie A. Aquillo
    AB- Philosophy III

    ‘The Wedding Dance’ by Amador T. Daguio is a story about a couple belonging to the

    ethnic tribe in Ifugao, Philippines. First published in 1953 by Stanford University in an annual

    publication of works by participants in their literary programs. The story is about a law in the

    ethnic tribe, which states “A couple who wish to divorce due to infertility of either one of the

    partners is allowed by the law. A husband who divorces a wife without any valid reason will have

    to leave all properties to the children and the wife, this is another law.” This analysis is meant to

    aim what the writer wants to point out in the story.

    The story portrays the clash between the personal love and the love of tribe and culture,

    and in some cases, culture triumphs. This shows how the culture prevents Awiyao and Lumnay

    from their freedom to love each other for lifetime. If we dig deeper to the situation, we can see

    that both Awiyao and Lumnay gave up their love not only because of what the culture dictates

    but also to save each other from the judgments of the society. If we tend to connect this story to

    the real life situation, we can say that people before and today are truly bound with laws that

    must be followed for our own welfare but sometimes we can also see these laws which control

    our own freedom, happiness and even desires. Sometimes we just wanted to speak out our

    thoughts, fight for what we think is right and try to question the law but then, we just feel that

    there’s always something that pulls us back just like Lumnay.

    Laws are supposed to be the ones that protect all of our rights and in this case, I

    observed that the law is being unjust and being unfair in putting Lumnay and Awiyao in that

    kind of situation because a child is not a just a symbol of a masculinity but rather, it is something
    beyond it. A child is a gift and it will be given at a right moment of time. A child is a supposed to

    be product of a true love not by the culture which dictates itself. If I were in the place of

    Lumnay, I would rather stand up and fight for what is right and what is mine because as a matter

    of fact, I know that this certain Law which they fear so much can be questioned and can be

    deconstructed. As for Awiyao, if I were in his shoes, I would not leave my wife because of a

    certain law because leaving your wife behind because she can’t bear a child is something which

    is much inhumane act than any other ways to break the laws. We should learn stand up for what

    is right and for what we have. It is a good thing that nowadays, people are more aware of their

    rights to choose someone whom they truly love, rights to choose to have a child or not, and rights

    to speak our own thoughts and all we have to do is to use it in a right way.

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