Severino Montano's Sabina: a Moral-Philosophical Analysis

Everything will fall into its places. Sabina, a young girl who lives in a farm with her family who was deeply in love with a thirty-year-old man, Mr. George Price.

She fell in love with Mr. Price, which is not acceptable in our society nowadays. Because marrying a man which is twice of your age is an immoral act. But she doesn’t mind what people say about their relationship. She still continue loving Mr. Price to the extent that she didn’t consider her family and ther mother's death, Maria.

Sabina at a very young age, lived on one roof with Mr. Price without the blessing of our Almighty Father. That is also one immoral act which this play shows us. She gave her all to Mr. Price whom she know for a short period of time.

For us, Filipinos, one of a shameful act is getting pregnant without getting married. Sabina gets pregnant and hoping that Mr. Price will marry her because she is bearing his child. But, Mr. Price told her that he cannot marry her because he was already married.

Realization strikes Sabina, choosing Mr. Price over her family isn’t the right thing. She realized her mistakes and that leads to her death. She decided to kill herself, because for her, that is the only way to escape all of her problems.

Sabina, shows many immoral acts in this play that taught us lessons that we can apply in our everyday life. But on the other hand, Mr. Price also did an immoral act. Loving another woman when you are already married is one of the biggest sin on earth. He fell in love with a girl whom he know that will never be his.

Sabina is a good example of Plato's belief, the play shows us morality in the part where Sabina's family was trying to tell her the truth but she didn't listen to them. The play taught us that, our family will never let us down. All we need is to trust them because they really know what is truly the best for us.

This play of Severino Montano shows us that, we don’t need to rush things. We need to wait...