POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

STA. MESA, MANILA

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Department of Computer Engineering

SALAMAT, RUEL O.
BSCOE 2-3
Life and Works of Rizal – GEED 10013
Prof. Jacinto R. Valila Jr.

Reflect on Rizal’s ideas of equality and freedom of

man beyond racial divides and questions.

Rizal’s speech in honor of Luna and Hidalgo

Dr. Jose Rizal is a traveler and we can also say that he is an adventurer for he had been
almost around, he went from country to the country right before his execution, Rizal even
though he lived for a short time only he had gone from so many countries and by saying this we
can infer that along his journey he had met so many people and some of them became peers
and close friend for Rizal. Two of the well-known people that had been acquainted with Jose
Rizal are, just like he are illustrados during the Spanish Era, these two were very famous and
they are even mentioned in history books. Juan Novicio Luna, some people know him as the
brother of the famous Filipino General Antonio Luna, but some people do not know that Juan
Luna was one of the most famous and celebrated artists in Philippine history, Luna was an
Ilocos native he was born on October 23, 1857, and a part of a big Luna Family, third of Seven
Children. Juan Luna became famous because of his techniques and unique style of painting,
and his most famous works include the award-winning Spolarium, the Blood Compact, and
many more well-known works. Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo was a prominent and influential
impressionist painter, he became well-known for his historic and aesthetically powerful paintings.
Felix R. Hidalgo was born in 1855 and became an exceptional artist winning various awards

Jose Rizal's speech introduction was filled with enthusiasm and caught the eye of these
who attended the banquet, he was so good at spitting his lines during his monologue to the
purpose that each one of the eyes and ears of the people around him were just lent to him and
what he's visiting say. Right, when he caught the eye of the attendees he began to discuss the
Philippines and the way it's changing because per him "The patriarchal era within the
Philippines is waning. The deeds of her illustrious sons are not any longer wasted away at
home" which mean that change is already happening within the Philippines, he's saying that
after 3 centuries of oppression and inequalities for the Filipino people, he's seeing changes that
are favoring the natives within the homeland. Filipino people have awakened from their long
slumber and are now willing to indicate their love for the Philippines.

But what the feed is each about? it's for the honor-winning painter named Juan Luna
and Felix Hidalgo, whom Jose Rizal complimented for their separate award and had said about
their innovations. Jose Rizal described Juan Luna's El Spolarium as a bit that is not simply
displaying us a distinct illustration but is narrating us a narrative, and similarly, the story is about
enslavement and the way dark those times are, everything from the painting is drooling with us
giving us a perceptiveness and telling us what is the oil each about, same goes with Hidalgo's
composition. the 2 of them, Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo, both are telling us commodity about
slavery, still, while both of them have an identical content they differ in fashion, one uses a
darker variety of color and is landing the subject of darkness while the contrary is leaning
towards the lighter color path. Whatever fashion is employed in making the piece it still sends a
communication and with this work of trades by these painters a good armament was made
against an emotional foe.

We may each coincide that the Philippines with the assistance of home Spain turned a
better country, I can speak that because of their aid we became a country more before they
discovered us but we must correspondingly bear the reality that those changes were fitted to us
vigorously and we served not to accept it wholeheartedly. The changes presented to us by the
home Spain was exclusively given to us by using force and colonialism and it was not us who
asked for it, we can thank Spain for dressing us to become more not simply the people but the
entire country but on top of this allow us not neglect the effects that went down
while they're reworking us, the monstrosity of compelled labor, the affliction of the Filipino
people due to inequalities during those moments, and the oppressions served by the
vituperative friars. Thanking Spain for their helping hand isn't a lame idea, but that should be the
extent of it and it shouldn't come to that point on how Rizal would do it because he'd come along
to the point wherein he'll account the Philippines as a fiefdom of the so-called home Spain.

What really is the purpose of Rizal's doings, do the results of his actions really justify
them? What I think is Jose Rizal didn't direct for freedom he was just targeting his motherland
Spain for reforms to be in the Philippines, his idea of freedom is precisely for the Filipinos to be
treated inversely as native Spaniards in the Philippines and there's nothing mistaken with that It
was just heartbreaking to suppose that our authentically own public idol would account our own
country as a fiefdom of his cherished home. He's accounting Spain as a mother and the
Philippines as a cub and for him, Spain must exist indoctrinating the Philippines exactly like how
a mother would educate her child, and he's indeed using the children for the qualification of
Spain and not his own country, he's bringing out to us that we must imitate Spain, but for me,
it’s not reasonable to mimic someone or commodity because as a country we must be suitable
to possess our certifiably own identicalness. Equality will be enforced as well as reform but
Rizal’s prospect on freedom is far from how the other Filipinos face it, our National Hero is one-
sided towards his country we exactly don't know which one is it.