User:AnakngAraw/Women in Philippine literature

Women in Philippine literature are the fictional Filipino women characters that have been created by the writer to assume a protagonist's role in the narrative, regardless of whether the author or authors were a male or a female. These main characteristics and their character could be representative of how the male authors perceived women in their society, and as to how the female authors regard themselves in such a society in the Philippines, and as to what the ideal Filipino woman of the past could have been, to what the ideal Filipino woman should be today and what they could become in the future.

Wordplay

 * Fictional Filipino women
 * Filipino women in fiction
 * Filipino heroines
 * Fictitious Filipino female characters
 * Leading/main characters - even villains
 * Fictional women characters in Philippine literature

Genre

 * Short stories
 * Folk tales
 * Komiks
 * Plays
 * Novels
 * Pocketbooks

Outline

 * Their roles
 * Written and created by Filipino men
 * Written and created by Filipino women themselves

Characters

 * María Clara, tragic heroine of Rizal's Noli.
 * Sisa. The madwoman-martyr of Philippine literature and then of Philippine culture and society.
 * Doña Victorina, another Noli character, the social climber.
 * Laura of Florante and Laura by Francisco Balagtas.
 * The Manananggal of Philippine mythology, the self-segmenting, vampire-like monster.
 * Darna and Varga, superheroine, equivalent to Wonder Woman.
 * Lola Basyang, grandmother purveyor of tales, almost 400 of them, created by 20th century writer Severino Reyes.
 * Maria Makiling, the folktale character of José Rizal, a fairy (diwata) of Mt. Makiling.