Cadaver

By Alberto S Florentino Character analysis Torio

It is mentioned in the play that he is around 28 years old, with a square jaw and well-developed body. He is sick, his eyes being closed as if in sleep. He lives a makeshift house at the edge of a cemetery in Manila with his wife Marina and steals jewelries from the grave with his friend Carding. He struggled to live and get medication for his sickness because of their poverty .

Carding
It is mentioned in the play that Carding is a frail-bodied, slow-moving man, in dirty pants and Tshirt. He is a friend of the bedridden Torio and living in the same situation in the slums. And because of desperation for money and pressure from his friend he end up getting involved in Torios antics.

Marina
It is mentioned in the play that she is a plain woman of 25 or 26,sloppily dressed in a formless, tunic-like gray dress. And obviously she is in the same state of living like the two, but despite that way of live she is still just compared to Carding and Torio.

Thematic analysis
It tells the tale of the poverty stricken and the lifestyle of the urban poor. The characters in the story are Torio, Carding and Marina. They are underprivileged and deprived of life's basic necessities and resources. It shows us the troubles of what the poor have to face everyday like not having a decent work because they are uneducated and not having money for food and for medicine when one of their family members get sick. It tells the tale of the poverty stricken and the lifestyle of the urban poor. The characters in the story are Torio, Carding and Marina. They are underprivileged and deprived of life's basic necessities and resources. And because of that sometimes in life, people lose control over their senses, reason and rationality. When desperate enough, people go to any means possible in an effort to provide for their family and keep themselves alive.

Bandales, Marvin D. Lit I MWF 2-3 pm AMS 215 Submitted to: Atty. Irene C. Cunanan Estrellado