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* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: Florante's mom and dad, Floresca and Briseo. Floresca was loving and (over?)protective, Briseo was kind, caring, and a paragon of virtue.
* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: Florante's mom and dad, Floresca and Briseo. Floresca was loving and (over?)protective, Briseo was kind, caring, and a paragon of virtue.
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]: [[Fan Nickname|Flo.]] Let me count the ways: {{spoiler|nearly killed}} in a [[School Play]], his mom dies, he suddenly becomes general of Albania's army and must separate from Laura and fight, receives a letter saying to return to Albania, {{spoiler|is ambushed, thrown in jail}}, finds out that Briseo and Linceo are killed, finds out that [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|Adolfo has Laura now]], banished and [[Chained to a Rock|chained to a tree in]] [[Mordor]] forest. ''Wow''.
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]: [[Fan Nickname|Flo.]] Let me count the ways: {{spoiler|nearly killed}} in a [[School Play]], his mom dies, he suddenly becomes general of Albania's army and must separate from Laura and fight, receives a letter saying to return to Albania, {{spoiler|is ambushed, thrown in jail}}, finds out that Briseo and Linceo are killed, finds out that [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|Adolfo has Laura now]], banished and [[Chained to a Rock|chained to a tree in]] [[Mordor]] forest. ''Wow''.
* {{spoiler|[[Distressed Damsel]]: Laura. So much.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Damsel in Distress]]: Laura. So much.}}
* [[Evil Always Triumphs in The Middle]]
* [[Evil Always Triumphs in The Middle]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: During the time, Christanity abhorred Muslims. Aladin is a Muslim prince and one of the good guys. To get this past the censors, Balagtas {{spoiler|took two lines to mention that Aladin and Flerida was baptised as a Christian at the end.}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: During the time, Christanity abhorred Muslims. Aladin is a Muslim prince and one of the good guys. To get this past the censors, Balagtas {{spoiler|took two lines to mention that Aladin and Flerida was baptised as a Christian at the end.}}

Revision as of 05:18, 11 August 2014

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Florante At Laura (lit. "Florante and Laura") is a Filipino epic written by Francisco Balagtas under the name Francisco Baltazar in prison. The work is dedicated to "Selya" and is allegorical to the state of the Philippines under Spanish time as well as the state of Balagtas in prison. The work itself talks about the life of Florante, duke of the Kingdom of Albania, Aladin, prince of Persia (no, not that one), Adolfo, the evil Big Bad greedy for power, and Laura, Florante's beloved.

Florante At Laura is written in a peculiar literary form known as Awit (lit. "Song") - each stanza has four lines with 12 syllables each. There are many more guidelines, such as "each line must be/contain a figure of speech and a slight pause on every 6th syllable".

Tropes Appearing in Florante At Laura

  1. "The Life of Florante and Laura in the Kingdom of Albania: Culled from a publicly-displayed "cuadro histórico" or painting which describes the events which were occurring during ancient times in the Empire of Greece, and penned by one who enjoys Tagalog verse."