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    Young Agueda and Badoy Montiya have a contentious history after Badoy corners Agueda alone in a dark room. They are eventually married, but their marriage is unhappy due to unresolved feelings of hatred and pride. Agueda cannot bear the torment of the marriage and dies, realizing too late that Badoy had in fact loved her all along. The story explores themes of love, pride, and the illusions brought about by physical attraction alone.

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    Young Agueda and Badoy Montiya have a contentious history after Badoy corners Agueda alone in a dark room. They are eventually married, but their marriage is unhappy due to unresolved feelings of hatred and pride. Agueda cannot bear the torment of the marriage and dies, realizing too late that Badoy had in fact loved her all along. The story explores themes of love, pride, and the illusions brought about by physical attraction alone.

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    Young Agueda and Badoy Montiya have a contentious history after Badoy corners Agueda alone in a dark room. They are eventually married, but their marriage is unhappy due to unresolved feelings of hatred and pride. Agueda cannot bear the torment of the marriage and dies, realizing too late that Badoy had in fact loved her all along. The story explores themes of love, pride, and the illusions brought about by physical attraction alone.

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    May Day Eve

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    Young Agueda and Badoy Montiya have a contentious history after Badoy corners Agueda alone in a dark room. They are eventually married, but their marriage is unhappy due to unresolved feelings of hatred and pride. Agueda cannot bear the torment of the marriage and dies, realizing too late that Badoy had in fact loved her all along. The story explores themes of love, pride, and the illusions brought about by physical attraction alone.

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    May Day Eve

    By: Nick Joaquin

    1
    2
    Characters
    and their charaterizations
    Characters

    ✣ Young Agueda – the pretty young


    woman who is curious, hardheaded,
    brave and proud. She was married to
    Badoy Montiya but never bowed
    down to admit her admiration for
    Badoy. She died losing her youth and
    living a lonely married life.

    4
    Characters

    ✣ Young Badoy Montiya – the vain good


    looking man who will do everything
    to get what he wants. He was a
    vengeful fellow who married Agueda
    but never admitted he had loved her
    since the night he cornered her in that
    dark room until she died.

    5
    Characters

    ✣ Anastasia - the old woman who is loyal


    to her mistress and believes in
    supernatural beings. She taught
    Agueda the incantation which can
    make her see the face of the person
    she is to marry.

    6
    Characters

    ✣ Daughter of Donya Agueda and Don


    badoy – a curious girl who was
    persistent in knowing her mother’s
    past.

    7
    Characters

    ✣ Voltaire – Don Badoy and Donya


    Agueda’s grandson who like his
    mother heard the story of witches that
    bewitched, drunk the blood and ate
    the hearts of his grandparents.

    8
    Settings

    ✣ Intramuros, Manila

    ✣ The story happened in the


    year 1847; on May Day Eve.

    9
    The Plot
    Parts of the story

    10
    a. The main problem:

    ✣ The main problem started when young Badoy Montiya


    cornered Agueda in the dark room alone. She asked him to
    free her but he insisted having a dance with her until she
    struggled for her freedom but he was stronger than she was.
    When the candle went off, Agueda started to cry not because
    of fear in the dark but because she hated how Badoy behaved.
    Badoy started to apologize sensing Agueda’s discomfort but
    she refused the apology. Instead when she had the chance,
    she bit Badoy’s fingers forcing him to retaliate by slapping
    her but she avoided and fled away from him. That started
    their unending conflicts.
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    b. The climax:

    ✣ The two were married. Unfortunately that marriage was


    not the solution to their problem but the cause of the
    ✣ complications. None of them admitted their real feelings
    for each other. They both found hell in their marriage.
    They both considered each other as devil and witch which
    inflicts them harm and pain.

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    c. The resolution:

    ✣ The heart grows weary. The body succumbs to


    pain. Donya Agueda was not able to bear it
    anymore. Her death signaled the realization for
    Don Badoy. He loved her all those times. It was a
    pity she would never know it anymore.

    13
    Symbolism

    ✣ The main symbol used in the story is the mirror


    which refers to the physical attractions of Badoy
    and Agueda for each other and the illusion
    brought about by those attractions.

    14
    Theme of the Story

    ✣ The main theme of the story “May Day Eve” is


    that love is not founded on magic. For it to grow
    and blossom, lovers should nurture the seed by
    watering it with acceptance and respect for each
    other. There is no way for love to prosper in
    proud and hateful hearts. Love is never proud nor
    vengeful. To be happy in love, one has to manifest
    it through actions. Finally, it is the lovers who
    decide to succeed or to fail in loving and not fate.

    15
    Nicomedes “ Nick” Joaquin a.k.a
    Quijano de Manila, 1917-2004

    ✣ This Filipino artist is a novelist, poet,


    playwright, biographer and essayist in
    English. He holds the title National
    Artist for Literature. Nick wrote
    largely about the Spanish colonial
    period and the diverse heritage of the
    Filipino people. After World War II
    Joaquin worked as a journalist,
    gaining fame as a reporter for the
    Free Press.

    16
    Thanks For Listening!

    17

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