ABSOLUTE OBEDIENCE

The story of Estrella Alfon the "Servant Girl" for me is a realistic one, it can happens any time now.

Rosa portraits the womanhood in the society, especially those who are discriminated and abuse. Young, beautiful innocent girl who is been abuse by her mistress. I think that Estrella Alfon is a feminist writer, even though the protagonist in the story is an abuse servant, for me the story shows a protest among women discrimination through Rosa.

As I read the story the man called "Angel" is just an imagination of Rosa's hope to become free and have a better life, she use his "Angel" to hold onto her hope that her life will be different. The "Angel" shows the future that Rosa's wanted to have, and besides, Angel is a word that can be describe as a savior.

But in the ending, the "Angel" turns into "Pedro", and Pedro is just an ordinary name just like the role he portrait in the story, Pedro is not the hope nor the savior of Rosa's life but, he is just a mere cochero of his tartanilla. He is just a citizen who work for a living, and at the ending, even Pedro himself drove Rosa back to her mistress which shows that he can't do anything about her life.

I entitled this post "Absolute Obedience" because, the story shows that the life we have is already planned, even though we wanted to change our life, we will still be in the life that we used to be, we only need is to obey the one who planned our life and accept our fate. If you are born servant then die as a servant, if you are born as ruler then die as a ruler. If we try to escape our fate we will just end up in the fate we left. It's the rule of our World, It's the rule of ABSOLUTE OBEDIENCE.