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The document provides details about Jose Rizal's novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. It summarizes that in Noli Me Tangere, the protagonist Ibarra is optimistic about achieving reform, but faces oppression from religious figures. In El Filibusterismo, Ibarra returns under the name Simoun and intends to incite revolution against the abusive Spanish government through violent means. However, by the end of the novel Simoun realizes his violent methods were wrong and commits suicide.

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Script Gec109 Part 2

The document provides details about Jose Rizal's novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. It summarizes that in Noli Me Tangere, the protagonist Ibarra is optimistic about achieving reform, but faces oppression from religious figures. In El Filibusterismo, Ibarra returns under the name Simoun and intends to incite revolution against the abusive Spanish government through violent means. However, by the end of the novel Simoun realizes his violent methods were wrong and commits suicide.

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#2 Noli Me Tangere centers around the protagonist Juan Crisostomo Magsalin Ibarra.

Upon his return to


the Philippines from abroad. He is first surrounded by good friends, a beautiful fiancée and a supportive
upper class, but a priest with a vendetta against Ibarra’s late father torments him. Ibarra learns the
tragic circumstances of his father’s death and the history behind the animosity held against him by the
Friar Dámaso Vardolagas. Still, Ibarra chooses the higher road, avoiding revenge, only to be harassed by
Damaso at every turn. Damaso sabotages Ibarra’s wedding and humiliates him constantly. Another
religious figure by the name of Padre Salvi becomes Ibarra’s enemy. Salvi attempts to kill him, lusts
after his former fiancée and stages an uprising in which Ibarra is implicated. Ibarra is imprisoned, loses
his friends and reputation and is nearly killed, all through the relentless hatred of two religious figures.
At the end of the novel he is deflated, disillusioned and weak. The bright future he envisioned for his
town was shattered and he finds himself surrounded by corruption and loss.

The novel offers a straightforward analysis of Philippine society under Spanish rule. The book
indirectly hits the most dirty and unseen sufferings that most Filipinos experienced during the Spanish
regime.

One famous line from the book was found at the end, it was from Elias as he stated these words to
Basilio:

“I shall die without seeing the dawn break upon my homeland. You, who shall see it, salute it! Do not
forget those who have fallen during the night.”

These words are a message not only for Basilio, but for all of us who lived an era of freedom and
independency. It was a statement that tells us not to forget the sacrifices, the lives and the deaths that
many Filipinos offered for this present freedom that we have. It reminds us of our obligation and
responsibility as the new generation, to persevere and fight for our country just like those who have
died before us. We, as Filipinos should be proud of what our country has achieved and we shall continue
to nurture its growth towards a better future.
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For us, the book, “Noli Me Tangere” was created for power, power to fuel the people’s desire
for change and liberation. The book itself is a fictional story, but it contains the hidden truth about the
corruption and abuse by the colonial government and the Catholic Church. In Rizal’s book, he
expressed the growing national consciousness of many Filipinos who opposed Spanish colonial tyranny
and aspired to attain democratic rights. It also, perfectly showed the ugly truth on how we, Filipinos has
long endured the slavery, corruption and abuse of the Spaniards. It indirectly started the flames of
revolution, it was a wake-up call for all Filipinos to break away from their trance of a so-called
“harmonious and peaceful” relationship with the Spaniards. Noli Me Tangere gave us power, it was
the seed that gave us the idea to stop being ignorant and it aroused our need for independency and
freedom. Rizal’s writing was created to fuel the growing nationalism that will help the Filipinos break
free from the shackles of abuse.

Number 1:

Rizal, who began writing El Filibusterismo in October 1887 in Calamba, Laguna, revised some chapters
while he was in London and completed the book on March 29, 1891.

Rizal wrote El Filibusterismo in dedication to the three martyred priests Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos,
and Jacinto Zamora, expressing conviction that their treatment and deaths at the hands of the Spanish
authorities was unjust.

Plots are poles apart compared with Noli Me Tangere, where people were encouraged to ask and aspire
for change and liberation, in El Filibusterismo, Rizal urged the society to open its eyes to reality and
rebel against the Spanish government for its oppression and abuse.

In Noli Me Tangere, there is aspiration, beauty, romance, and mercy. In El Filibusterismo, readers will
feel is bitterness, hatred, and antipathy. The romance and aspirations are gone. Even the characters'
personalities seem to have undergone radical change.

Simoun is the main character in Jose Rizal's two El Filibusterismo novels. As Crisostomo Ibarra (which is
his real name), he is the main protagonist in Rizal's first novel, Noli Me Tangere. In the first novel, he was
idealistic, believing that social reforms can bring the end to the social cancer plaguing the Spanish-ruled
Philippines. In Rizal's second novel, he returns as a rich jewelry salesman, Simoun. He is known to be the
influential in the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines and has links to the Captain-General. He
seeks to ignite the sentiments of the Filipinos, so that a revolution may arise.
Being the conflict catalyst in El Filibusterismo, aside from having a more hostile and radical ideology,
Simoun is arguably the main antagonist of the second novel, in contrast to his more heroic role in Noli
Me Tangere

Crisostomo Ibarra returned as a rich jeweler under the name of Simoun. He abandoned his idealistic
views after going through tragic events in the last novel. He believes that obstreperous and violent
revolution is the only way to bring about end to the abuse of the Spaniards, especially the clergy. He
intends to do this by influencing the Captain-General to make erroneous decisions that would lead to
further suffering of the Filipinos. He believes that doing so would open their eyes of the truth and start a
revolution. His other goal is to free Maria Clara from the convent.

Maria Clara died while serving in the convent which drove Simoun to further pursue his plans.

His true identity was discovered by Basilio, the protagonist in the novel and a graduating student of
medicine who has views similar to Simoun's former self. Simoun managed to sway him to his side after
Basilio going through his own set of tragedies.

Suicidal, Simoun drinks poison and as he is dying, accepts that his violent methods were wrong. Showing
a change in his character from the beginning of El Filibusterismo (El Fili), instead of killing many people
like he had planned, Simoun kills no one at any point in the book other than himself.

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