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Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo
NOVELA EL TAGALA
Bible
But the propagandist wants to write about women in Europe and about
gambling
Social Cancer
EL FILIBUSTERISMO
NOVELA EL FILIPINA
Motivated by the Calamba affair and not by his experience in his student
years
Both Noli and El Fili shows strong anti-Clerical and even anti-Catholic color
Dedicated to Gomburza
Students of UST
-very rich
-discreet
4. Sandoval – Peninsulares
5.Tadeo- Lachuacha student, like holidays, most interested with the girls
Friars – wicked
Filipinos – despairing
Reaction of Noli:
False, rash, offensive to friars, injuruos to the sacred hierarch, to the faithful,
impious, foolish, erroneous, heretic
These are what I percieve to be recurrent themes in the works of Jose Rizal
Rizal called it Providence, God, and so forth. He believed in a God who made
himself known by the unfolding of the human mind through:
1. education and
He did not think much of politics and power- grabbing intrigues. Only scientific
solutions really work in the interest of the human community
UNLESS A HUMAN IS FREE, THE SPIRIT HE/SHE RECEIVED FROM GOD CANNOT
UNFOLD, WITHOUT FREEDOM,
Love is the supreme manifestation of any human’s recognition of his divine origin
Rizal was often nearly mystical. He had tender sympathy for the poor and
helpless:
4. He was concerned for the basic needs and happiness of his family and other
people around him.