EL FILIBUSTERISMO

THE REIGN OF THE GREED

THE WRITING OF THE NOVEL

October 1887 -Rizal began writing El Filibusterismo while he was in Calamba. London (1888), Paris, Brussels

March 29, 1891

He

completed the book in Biarritz

September 1891 -It was published in Ghent, Belgium with the help of his friend Valentin Ventura.

THE TITLE
Rizal had to define the word filibustero to his German friend Ferdinand Blumentritt, who did not understand his use of the word in Noli Me Tangere. In a letter, Rizal explained: The word filibustero is little known in the Philippines. The masses do not know it yet. I heard it for the first time in 1872 when the tragic executions (of the Gomburza) took place. I still remember the panic that this word created. Our father forbade us to utter it, as well as the words Cavite, Jose Burgos(one of the executed priests), etc. The Manila newspapers and the Spaniards apply this word to one whom they want to make a revolutionary suspect. The Filipinos belonging to the educated class fear the reach of the word. It does not have the meaning of freebooters; it rather means a dangerous patriot who will soon be hanged or well, a presumptuous man. By the end of the nineteenth century, the word filibustero had acquired the meaning subversive in the Philippines, hence the book is about subversion.

CHARACTERS
Simoun Crisstomo Ibarra disguised as a wealthy jeweler, bent on
starting a revolution

Basilio Sisas son, now an aspiring doctor Isagani poet and Basilios best friend; portrayed as emotional and reactive; Paulita Gmez boyfriend before being dumped for fellow
student Juanito Pelez

Kabesang Tales Telesforo Juan de Dios, a former cabeza de barangay(barangay head) who resurfaced as the feared Luzn bandit Matanglawin (Tagalog for Hawkeye); his father, Tandang Selo, dies eventually after his own son Tano, who became a guardia civil,
unknowingly shoots his grandfather in an encounter

 Don Custodio Custodio de Salazar y Snchez de Monteredondo, a famous journalist who was asked by the students about his decision for theAcademia
de Castellano. In reality, he is quite an ordinary fellow who married a rich woman in order to be a member of Manilas high society.

Paulita Gmez The girlfriend of Isagani and the niece of Doa Victorina, the old India who (racial identity) passes herself off as
a Peninsulares|Peninsular,and is the wife of the quack doctor Tiburcio de

Espadaa. In the end, she and Juanito Pelez are wed, and she dumps Isagani,
believing that she will have no future if she marries him.

Father Florentino Isaganis godfather, and a secular priest; was engaged to be married, but chose to be a priest after being pressured by his mother, the story
hinting at the ambivalence of his decision as he chooses an assignment to a remote place, living in solitude near the sea.

 Juli Juliana de Dios, the girlfriend of Basilio, and the youngest

daughter of Kabesang Tales.

Ben Zayb Abraham Ibaez is his real name. He is a journalist who

thinks he is the only one thinking in the Philippines.

Placido Penitente a student of the University of Santo Tomas who was very intelligent and wise but did not want, if not only by his
mothers plea, to pursue his studies. He also controls his temper against his Physics teacher, Father Millon

Quiroga a Chinese businessman who dreamt of being a consul of a Consulate of China in the Philippines. He hid Simouns weapons
inside his house.

 Tandang Selo father of Kabesang Tales. He raised the sick and young Basilio after his mother Sisa had died. Father Fernandez the priest-friend of Isagani. He promised to Isagani that he and the other priests will give in to the students
demands.

Attorney Pasta one of the great lawyers of mid-Hispanic Manila.

Padre Sibyla- Hernando de la Sibyla, a Filipino friar and now vicerector of theUniversity of Santo Tomas.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NOLI ME TANGERE AND EL FILIBUSTERISMO

Noli Me Tangere

EL Filibusterismo
Motivated by Calamba Affair Political Dedicated to GomBurZa Revenge and anger Bitterness, hatred, pain, violence, sorrow

Influenced by Uncle Toms Cabin

Romantic Dedicated to Motherland Love story

Freshness, color, humor, lightness, wit

SIMILARITIES OF THE TWO NOVELS

talked about how Spaniards abused Filipinos abuse of church of their power discrimination on Filipinos same characters but with great changes in their personality good novels from the point of view of history depicted with realistic colors the actual condition or setting instrumental in awakening the spirit of nationalism responsible in paving ground for the Philippine Revolution