The Female Heart

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The Female Heart

The piece is named “The Female Heart”, created by Linda Faigao. It wants to display the existing focal issues that our country is going through and the play is quite successful in portraying those. These issues are mainly the roots of poverty and the difficult situations that a typical person in the marginalized sector is suffering. It made me realize that Philippines hasn’t change much, the problems in the past is still haunting our contemporary days and even worse. I aspire the significant people in the government to see this play, for them to be fully aware of an individual’s perspective of the current Philippine setting.

I like how the author used the progressing life of a girl and her family to systematically show the main points the play wants to show. With just the life of a typical girl, all the issues are made interconnected. These major issues consist of poverty itself, government’s insufficient support for education, low quality of the marginalized sector’s education, inability of many children to avail education, lack of jobs for people who have no diploma, and the “bride for sale”.

I think the play also wants to state that the development of our society starts with providing proper education to all its citizen. I agree with this idea, because further development of our country’s economy would lie to the next generation’s abilities. I believe that the government should give more attention to the provision of education to children, and not just mediocre education, but rather proper education. Because just like portrayed in the play, there are still flaws seen in the quality of the nation’s education. Also, it saddens me that in order to avail education, many sacrifices should be done. An example of this is the situation that the brother of Adelfa went into. Angelo didn’t even finish high school so