NOLI ME TANGERE

Dr. Jose Rizal

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 Noli Me Tangere

 The title, in Latin meaning Touch me not,

refers to John 20:17 in the Bible as Mary
Magdalene tried to touch the newly
risen Jesus, He said "Touch me not; for I
am not yet ascended to my Father.“
 Rizal, in his letter to his friend and Czech
scientist Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt,
admitted that he obtained the title from
the Bible.

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The COVER

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 Background

• Rizal suggested to his fellow Filipino friends in Europe in June 2, 1884,

through writing, to have a meeting and plan for writing a novel similar to that of
Beecher Stowe's. (At this moment, Rizal planned not to write the novel himself,
but through collective efforts done by other Filipinos who shared ideals with
him.
• Paterno brothers–Pedro, Maximo, and Antonio; Graciano López-Jaena,
Evaristo Aguirre, Eduardo de Lete, Melecio Figueroa, Valentín Ventura and
Julio Llorento
• His proposal was unanimously approved by the Filipinos present at the party,
among whom were Pedro, Maximino and Antonio Paterno,Graciano López
Jaena, Evaristo Aguirre, Eduardo de Lete, Julio Llorente and Valentin Ventura.

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Inspired by the Novel :

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 Objectives
• In another letter to Ferdinand Blumentritt, Rizal described what
he expects when the novel will be in circulation. Finally, he
pointed out his primary objective, which are to :
• (1) Defend Filipino people from foreign accusations of
foolishness and lack of knowledge;
• (2) Show how the Filipino people lived during Spanish colonial
period and the cries and woes of his countrymen against
abusive officials;
• (3) Discuss what religion and belief can really do to everyday
lives; and
• (4) Expose the cruelties, graft, and corruption of the false
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Writing the
Noli Me Tangere

 First half of Noli Me

Tangere : Madrid,
Spain from 1884-1885
 Second half of Noli
Me Tangere from
time-to-time starting
February 21, 1887
(Germany)

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 Printing and Publication

 Maximo Viola
 First edition of
 Noli Me Tangere was printed in Berlin on
March 29, 1887 , Berliner Buchdruckerei-
Aktiengesellschaft
 In 1887, the first edition of Noli was
published in Berlin, Germany. To express his
gratitude, he gave the original manuscript
plus the plume he used to Viola. Rizal also
signed the first print and gave it to Viola with
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Contents

• Dedication
• Introduction
• Characters
• Chapters : 63

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 Contents
16. Sisa
Chapters 17. Basilio
1. A Gathering 18. Souls in Torment
2. Crisostomo Ibarra
3. Dinner 19. Adventures of a Schoolmaster
4. Heretic and Subversive 20. The Meeting at City Hall
5. A Star in the Dark Night 21. A Mother’s Tale
6. Captain Tiago 22. Light and Shadow
7. Idyll on a Terrace 23. A Fishing Expedition
8. Memories 24. In the Forest
9. National Affairs 25. At the Philosopher’s House
10. The Village
11. Sovereignty 26. Festival Eve
12. All Saints 27. At Nightfall
13. The Storm Brews 28. Correspondences
14. Tasio, Madman or Philosopher 29. Morning
15. The Sextons 30. In the Church
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31. The Sermon
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Chapters 46. The Cockpit
31. The Sermon 47. Two Ladies
32. The Crane 48. An Enigma
33. Freedom of Thought 49. Voice of the Persecuted
34. The Banquet 50. Elias’s Family
35. Comments 51. Changes
36. The First Cloud
52. The Card of the Dead and the
37. His Excellency
38. The Procession Shadows
39. Doña Consolacion 53. Il buon di si conosce da mattina
40. Right and Might 54. Quid quid latet
41. Two Visitors 55. Catastrophe
42. The de Espadañas
43. Plans
44. An Examination of Conscience
45. The Persecuted
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• Chapters
• 56. What Is Said and What Is Believed
57. Vae victus!
58. The Accused
59. Homeland and Interests
60. Maria Clara Weds
61. Pursuit on the Lake
62. Father Damaso Explains Himself
63. Christmas Eve

• Epilogue
Appendix: Elias and Salome
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AUTHOR’S DEDICATION

 Rizal dedicated his Noli Me Tangere to thePhilippines

– “To My Fatherland.” His dedication run asfollows:

Recorded in the history of human sufferings is a cancer so malignant a

character that the least touch irritates it and awakens in it the sharpest
pains. Thus, how many times, when in the midst of modern civilizations I
have wished to call thee before me, now to accompany me in memories, now
to compare thee with other countries, hath thy dear image presented itself
showing a social cancer like to that other!

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AUTHOR’S DEDICATION

 Desiring thy welfare which is our own, and seeking the best
treatment, I will do with thee what the ancients did with their sick,
exposing them on the steps of the temple so that every one who came
to invoke the Divinity might offer them a remedy.

 And to this end, I will strive to reproduce thy condition faithfully,

without discriminations; I will raise a part of the veil that covers the evil,
sacrificing to truth everything, even vanity itself, since, as thy son I am
conscious that I also suffer from thy defects and weaknesses.

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 Major Characters

 Juan Crisostomo
 Othercharacters
 Padre Hernando dela
 María Clara
Sibyla
 Capitán Tiago
 Padre Bernardo Salví
 Padre Dámaso  El Alférez or Alperes
 Elías  Doña Consolacíon
 Filosofo Tacio  Don Tiburciode
 Doña Victorina Espadaña –
 Sisa, Crispín, and  Teniente Guevara
Basilio  Alfonso Linares
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 
Non-recurring characters

 Don Pedro
 Tía Isabel
Eibarramendia
 GovernorGeneral
 Don SaturninoIbarra
 Don Filipo Lino
 Salomé
 PadreManuel Martín
 Don Rafael Ibarra  Sinang
 Dona PíaAlba  Iday,
 Neneng and Victoria
 Capitán Basilio

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  Pedro
 Tandáng Pablo
 El hombre amarillo
 Lucas
 Bruno and Tarsilo
 Ñor Juan
 Capitana Tika (Rustica)
 Albino
 Capitana María Elena
 Hermano Pedro, Hermana Rufa, Hermana Sipa,
Hermana Juana
 Sacristán Mayor
 Capitán Tinong and Capitán Valentín

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• Son of a Filipino businessman,
Don Rafael Ibarra, he studied in
Europe for seven years. Ibarra is
also María Clara's fiancé. Several
sources claim that Ibarra is also
Rizal's reflection.
• He symbolizes the idealism of the
privileged youth.

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 María Clara

• Ibarra's fiancée. She was

raised by Capitán Tiago and is
the most beautiful and widely
celebrated girl in San Diego.
• An illegitimate daughter of
Father Dámaso.
• She symbolizes the purity and
innocence of a sheltered
native woman.
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 Capitan Tiago

• Santiago de los Santos, known by his

nickname Tiago and political title Capitán Tiago is a
Filipino businessman and the cabeza de barangay or
head of barangay of the town of San Diego. He is
also the known father of María Clara.
❖ He symbolizes the rich Filipinos who oppress their
fellow countrymen.

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 Doña Victorina de los Reyes de Espadaña

• Doña Victorina was a socialite and friend of Capitan

Tiago. She along with her husband Don Tiburcio
sought to associate themselves with the influential
figures of San Diego in order to gain further social
status.
• Doña Victorina de los Reyes de Espadaña, is an
ambitious Filipina who classifies herself as a Spanish
and mimics Spanish ladies by putting on heavy make-
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 Padre Dámaso

• Dámaso Verdolagas, or Padre Dámaso is

a Franciscan friar and the former parish curate
of San Diego.
• He is best known as a notorious character who
speaks with harsh words and has been a cruel
priest during his stay in the town.
• He raped Doña Pia, Maria Clara’s mother He
continually antagonizes Ibarra and prevents his
marriage to Maria Clara.
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 Elias

• Elías is Ibarra's mysterious friend and

ally.
• He wants to revolutionize the country
and to be freed from Spanish
oppression.
• He distrusts human judgment and
prefers God’s justice instead.
• He represents the common Filipino.

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 PilosopoTacio

❖ Don Anastacio
❖ He spent most of his money on books and now lives in poverty
Rizal can relate to his character as his oldest brother, Paciano
Rizal.
❖ He is a pessimist
❖ Seek for reforms from the government, he expresses
his ideals in paper written in a cryptographic alphabet
"that the future generations may be able to decipher it"
and realized the abuse and oppression done by the
conquerors.
❖ “baliw” para sa mga di nakapag-aral at “pilosopo”
para sa mga edukado.
❖ He symbolizes the learned Filipinos..
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 Sisa, Crispín, and Basilio

• Narcisa or Sisa is the deranged

mother of Basilio and Crispín.
Described as beautiful and young,
although she loves her children very
much, she can not protect them from
the beatings of her husband, Pedro.

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 Sisa, Crispín, and Basilio

• Crispín is Sisa's 7-year-old son. An altar boy,

he was unjustly accused of stealing money
from the church.
• After failing to force Crispín to return the money he allegedly
stole, Father Salví and the head sacristan killed him. It is not
directly stated that he was killed, but the dream of Basilio
suggests that Crispín died during his encounter with Padre Salvi
and his minion.

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 Sisa, Crispín, and Basilio

• Basilio is Sisa's 10-year-old son. An

acolyte tasked to ring the church bells
for the Angelus, he faced the dread of
losing his younger brother and the
descent of his mother into insanity. At
the end of the novel, Elías wished
Basilio to bury him by burning in
exchange of chest of gold located on his
death ground. He will later play a
major role in El Filibusterismo.
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Sisa, Crispín, and Basilio

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 Padre Salvi

• Padre Salvi
➢He replaced Padre Damaso
➢Padre Salvi was the town curate of San
Diego and the successor of Padre Damaso.
Possessing a rivalry with the town's alferez,
he later orchestrated the downfall of
Crisostomo Ibarra, manipulating the
townspeople in the process.

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Doña Consolacion

➢Wife of Alferes
❖ Wife of the Alferez of San Diego
Often has violent arguments
with her husbands
❖ Pretends not to know Tagalog
and often uses Spanish words
even if she does not know the
meaning
❖ Symbolizes the Filipinos in our
society who are ashamed of
their own race and nationality.

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• Rizal depicts Doña Consolación as
incredibly crass and very ugly, writing that
her one “sterling trait” is that she seems to
have “never looked in the mirror.” Much
like Doña Victorina, with whom she
eventually gets into an intense fight, she
believes herself to be much more worthy
of respect than she actually is, constantly
deceiving herself in regards to her station
in life. She even pretends to not
remember her native language, Tagalog,
instead speaking very bad Spanish.

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Alferez

• Dona Consolascion’s husband

shares rivalry with the priest,
particularly Padre Salvi and
frequently has violent fights
with his wife
• Represented the officials of the
state who frequently had power
struggles with Church officials
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 Don Tiburcio de Espadaña

➢ Husband of Doña Victorina

➢ Pretended as doctor of medicine
➢ A Spaniard who speaks with a stutter and looks significantly older
than his thirty-five years.
➢ Practiced Medicine to the country provinces of the Philippines
➢ He charged exorbitant amounts of money = people think he is
country’s best doctors. After some time, the townspeople discovered
his fraudulence
➢ His wife Doña Victorina convinced to served as a doctor for María
Clara.
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 Don Alfonso Linares de Espadaña

➢ Nephew of Don Tiburcio

➢ Fiancée of Maria Clara.

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 Pia Alba

❖A young, healthy and beautiful woman.

Very spiritual woman. By nature, a very
merry woman but she became
melancholic when she became
pregnant.
❖Pia Alba represents the women who
had been abused by the clergy and had
been silenced by their shame.

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SALOME

sweetheart of Elias

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 Fray Hernando Sibyla
❖ He is often cool and intelligent, especially when correcting
the other friar, Padre Damaso, of the latter's ostentatiousness.
❖ Dominican friar who is the curate of Binondo and had been
a former professor at San Juan de Letran college Symbolizes
the liberal friar but would rather stay in the background
rather than incur the wrath of other priests in power.
❖ He is aware of the injustices done to the natives but would
not do anything to change it, as all he cares about is getting
his congregation in power.
❖ a Dominican friar who is the curate of Binondo
and had been a former professor at San Juan de
Letran college Symbolizes the liberal friar but
would rather stay in the background rather than
incur the wrath of other priests in power.

❖ He is aware of the injustices done to the natives

but would not do anything to change it, as all he
cares about is getting his congregation in power.
 Gobernador General

❖ He occupies the second most powerful rank in

the colonial government, second only to the
king Supported Ibarra against Padre Damaso
Represented the typical Governor Generals of
the Philippines who would often disdain the
power that the friars had.

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The Theme

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 Theme

* Rizal's book persistently unmasks the evils of Spaniards in the

Philippines of every kind.
* He exposes corruption and brutality of the civil guards which
drive good men to crime and banditry.

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