Rizal

Unit 2: CONCEPT OF NATION, HEROES & NATIONALISM

Nationalism
In this topic, the concept of nationalism is about for justice, for liberty and for personal
dignity and to elaborate nationalism as tangent to freedom and emancipation. Also, nationalism
is a belief, creed or political ideology that involves an individual identifying with, or becoming
attached to, one's nation. Nationalism involves national identity, by contrast with the related
construct of patriotism, which involves the social conditioning and personal behaviors that
support a state's decisions and actions.

Unit 3: 19TH CENTURY SOCIAL & POLITICAL CONDITIONS

Economic progress, political

reforms, anti-friar sentiments
and
modernization were pursued
and became a struggle for many
Filipinos during this time.
The experiences of abuse,
oppression, inequality and
cries of freedom created
this
period’s reformists, liberals,
anticlerical and nationalists.
Rizal favored reforms in
Philippine society. He opposed
the influence of the friars,
for he saw them as an
obstacle to freedom and to
progress. He was devoted to
the
modernization of his country, so
that, as he put it, “she might
take her place among the
Economic progress, political
reforms, anti-friar sentiments
and
modernization were pursued
and became a struggle for many
Filipinos during this time.
The experiences of abuse,
oppression, inequality and
cries of freedom created
this
period’s reformists, liberals,
anticlerical and nationalists.
Rizal favored reforms in
Philippine society. He opposed
the influence of the friars,
for he saw them as an
obstacle to freedom and to
progress. He was devoted to
the
modernization of his country, so
that, as he put it, “she might
take her place among the
Economic progress, political
reforms, anti-friar sentiments
and
modernization were pursued
and became a struggle for many
Filipinos during this time.
The experiences of abuse,
oppression, inequality and
cries of freedom created
this
period’s reformists, liberals,
anticlerical and nationalists.
Rizal favored reforms in
Philippine society. He opposed
the influence of the friars,
for he saw them as an
obstacle to freedom and to
progress. He was devoted to
the
modernization of his country, so
that, as he put it, “she might
take her place among the
Economic progress, political
reforms, anti-friar sentiments
and
modernization were pursued
and became a struggle for many
Filipinos during this time.
The experiences of abuse,
oppression, inequality and
cries of freedom created
this
period’s reformists, liberals,
anticlerical and nationalists.
Rizal favored reforms in
Philippine society. He opposed
the influence of the friars,
for he saw them as an
obstacle to freedom and to
progress. He was devoted to
the
modernization of his country, so
that, as he put it, “she might
take her place among the
Economic progress, political
reforms, anti-friar sentiments
and
modernization were pursued
and became a struggle for many
Filipinos during this time.
The experiences of abuse,
oppression, inequality and
cries of freedom created
this
period’s reformists, liberals,
anticlerical and nationalists.
Rizal favored reforms in
Philippine society. He opposed
the influence of the friars,
for he saw them as an
obstacle to freedom and to
progress. He was devoted to
the
modernization of his country, so
that, as he put it, “she might
take her place among the
conomic progress, political
reforms, anti-friar sentiments
and
modernization were pursued
and became a struggle for many
Filipinos during this time.
The experiences of abuse,
oppression, inequality and
cries of freedom created
this
period’s reformists, liberals,
anticlerical and nationalists.
Rizal favored reforms in
Philippine society. He opposed
the influence of the friars,
for he saw them as an
obstacle to freedom and to
progress. He was devoted to
the
modernization of his country, so
that, as he put it, “she might
take her place among the
Political System and the Sources of Abuses in the Administrative System. The Spaniards
ruled the Filipinos in the 19th century. The Filipinos became the Spaniard’s slave. The Spaniards
claimed their taxes and they worked under the power of the Spaniards.

Unit 4: RIZAL'S PERSONAL LIFE

José Rizal’s life is one of the most documented of 19th century Filipinos due to the vast
and extensive records written by and about him. Almost everything in his short life is recorded
somewhere, being himself a regular diarist and prolific letter writer, much of the material having
survived.

Unit: 5 MAJOR WRITING OF RIZAL (REMARKABLE WORKS)

The work of Rizal is indeed amazing. Rizal wrote mostly in Spanish, the then lingua
franca of scholars, though some of his letters (for example Sa Mga Kababaihang Taga Malolos)
were written in Tagalog. His works have since been translated into a number of languages
including Tagalog and English. The content of Rizal's writings changed considerably in his two
most famous novels, Noli Me Tángere, published in Berlin in 1887, and El Filibusterismo,
published in Ghent in 1891 with funds borrowed largely from Rizal's friends. These writings
angered both the Spanish colonial elite and many educated Filipinos due to their insulting
symbolism. They are critical of Spanish friars and the power of the Church. Rizal's friend
Ferdinand Blumentritt, an Austria-Hungary born professor and historian wrote that the novel's
characters were drawn from real life and that every episode can be repeated on any day in the
Philippines.