Miguel P.

Reyeg

RZL110

Make Rizal Obsolete

The perspectives seen on the novel about Rizal was a portrayal of his generation. In
present time, I think Rizal is not obsolete. He utilized varying roles to depict the problems

existing during the Spanish colonization which is seen in his works. Rizal had a lot of things to
say which concerns the Filipino society that corroborates his beliefs. Rizal set his plans in the

time of the Spanish colonization which are pretty much credible enough. With the realizations
that Rizal formed his thoughts from years back, they are still broadly acknowledged by the

society of today. Varying preferences seem to infiltrate each Filipinos. In the novel of
Constantino, it talks about the conditions that Rizal wrote about no longer exist today

(emphasizes only what it considers the harmless and non-controversial aspects of his life and
works). The things portrayed in the novel Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo still exists to

this day. It may not be the exact roles but its equivalent in today’s society. The society still stays
beneath the oppression. In our present time where social media, technology, and information

are readily at hand to the people who have access to them, the relevance of Jose Rizal and his
works, are still timeless. His works are a statement of freedom and symbolizes the nationalism

of the people of the Philippine Republic. Rizal still speak to us with the same sense of urgency
and immediacy that he produced among his contemporaries because we are still backward,

ignorant, and unfree. When a new generation of Filipinos will be able to read Rizal as a mirror
of our past and not as a reproach to our social present, we can say that we have truly honored

Rizal because we have made him obsolete by completing his work