MARXIST CRITICISM

Pasion de Amor

Pasion de Amor or Passion of Love as translated in the its Spanish language is 2015 Philippine drama television series based on the Spanish-language telenovela Pasion de Gavilanes produced by Telemundo, RTI Producciones and Caracol Television. The story revolves around the Samonte brothers who set out to avenge the death of their only sister. They do this by making Elizondo sisters fall in love with them.
This story is a very common scenario in the Philippine teleserye segments of competing TV stations in the country, revolving around the difference in the social status and social groups of the involved characters. As Marxist literary criticism suggests, ideology and social institution is involved. In the story of the Pasion de Amor, a middle class siblings – the Samontes, and the elite class – the Elizondos. The story revolves the falling in love of the Elizondo father to the Samonte’s only sister. The story goes that the Elizondo father died because of accident, and because of his wife’s anger towards the Samonte sister, she planned on having revenge on the young Samonte by having the girl raped and killed. The Samonte brothers then planned the revenge on the Elizondos after the death of their beloved sister by making the Elizondo sisters fall in love with them. The soap opera is still ongoing, but coming to the conclusion of the drama in the Marxist approach, we can see the oppression of the Samonte sister through the hands of the elite family causing her distress and death. We can see a class struggle between the two opposing party where there was oppression and difficulty on the middle class part and convenience and “do-all-you-can” in the part of the elite class.