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LESSON 1: NOLI ME TANGERE NOLI ME TANGERE

• Madrid, Spain
• The Noli Me Tangere is a Latin phrase
• Paris, France
which means Touch Me Not. It's’not
• Berlin, Germany
originally conceived by Rizal, for he
admitted taking it from Bible.
(February 21, 1887 finished and March 21, 1887
• Gospel of St. John (Chapter 20, Verses
came off the press)
13-17)
• MADRID - 1884
• “Touch me not; I am not ascended to my
• PARIS - 1885
Father but go to my brethren, and said
• WILHELMSFELD - 1886
unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and
• BERLIN - 1886
your Father; and to my God and your
• BERLIN - 1887
God”
• BERLIN - FEBRUARY 21, 1887

MADRID (JANUARY 21, 1884) • Noli Me Tangere

- The Philippines’most influential novel
Noli Me Tangere was approved by:
Stirred the Nationalist Sentiments of the
• Paternos (Pedro, Maximo, and Antonio)
19th Century
• Graciano
• Author’ s Dedication – Philippines
• Evaristo Aguirre
• Synopsis
• Eduardo de Lete
• The Noli is based on truth
• Julio Llorente
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by: Harriet
• Melecio Figueroa
Beecher Stowe
• Valentin Ventura

NOVEL
Paternos (Pedro, Maximo, and Antonio)
- A fictitious prose narrative of book length,
- Friend ni Jose and kasama niya sa
typically representing characters and
Madrid
actions with some degree of realism.
Prose narrative- to tell a story or to
*Nag ask siya ng permission sa mga malalapit
entertain.
sakanya kung pwede siyang gumawa ng novel.

Noli Me Tangere
- They approved Jose’
s writing a novel.
- Touch Me Not - direct translation
- The Social Cancer- book translation from
Graciano Lopez Jaena
Spanish to English.
- Founder ng La Solidaridad
- A passionate love story set against the
BERLIN (February 21, 1887) ugly political backdrop, repression,
torture, and murder.
Maximo Viola - Unmasking the brutality and corruption
- He financed the Noli Me Tangere of Jose of Spanish rule in the Philippines (1565-
Rizal. 1898)
- Berlin Buchdruckerei Action Gesellschaft
(March 21, 1887)

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- Was the first major artistic manifestation ❖ Padre Damaso

of Asian resistance to European
colonialism
- The Philippines’ most influential novel
- Stirred the Nationalist Sentiments of the
Filipinos 19th Century
NOLI ME TANGERE CHARACTERS
- was known to be friendly with the Ibarra
family, so much that Crisóstomo was
surprised by what the former curate had
done to Don Rafaél.
- Padre Dámaso is described to be a
snobbish, ruthless and judgemental
extrovert.

❖ Crisostomo Ibarra What was held against Don Rafael?

- Juan Crisostomo Ibarra y Magsalin, was
a young student from San Diego.
- Personality and Traits Ibarra was an
earnest and idealistic young man.
Influenced by his European education, he
sought to improve the country; as part of
this, he believed in the power of education
to enact reforms and made efforts to
establish a school in San Diego to this end.
- Crisostomo Ibarra exemplified the vision
that Jose Rizal had aimed for the youth of
the Philippines during his time. Others
attribute Ibarra as Rizal's reflection of
himself.
- The murder of the Spanish tax collector
- Heresy...(1) no belief in God; (2) no
confession.
- Subversion...(1) speaking out against the
friars and against govt, (2) reading El
Correo de Ultramar, a radical
newspaper, (3) sending Ibarra to Swiss
Germany, centers of free thought and
Protestantism, (4) picture of a Filipino
priest (possible Father Burgos), and (5)
wearing a barong tagalog (attire of the
indios because only spaniards were
allowed to wear their shirts tucked in).

❖ Maria Clara
- María Clara de los Santos y Alba, is the
mestiza heroine in Noli Me Tangere
- Is the childhood sweetheart and fiancée
of Noli Me Tángere's main protagonist,
Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra y Magsalin, the
son of Don Rafael Ibarra.
- Rizal based the fictional character of
María Clara on his real-life girlfriend and
cousin, Leonor Rivera.

❖ Kapitan Tiyago
- influential businessman in San Diego and
the father of Maria Clara.

❖ Pia Alba
- Mother of María Clara and wife of
Kapitán Tiago.
- Died after giving childbirth to María Clara

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LESSON 2: EL FILIBUSTERISMO JACINTO ZAMORA (1835-1872)

- He is remembered for leading a
• also known by its alternative English title campaign against the abusive Spanish
The Reign of Greed, is the second novel friars and fighting for equal rights among
written by Philippine national hero José priests.
Rizal.
• Filibustero - someone engaged in EL FILIBUSTERISMO
sedition, like a traitor or conspirator
• The murder of the Spanish tax collector
Noli Me Tangere El Filibusterismo • Heresy... (1) no belief in God; (2) no
• Romantic • Political novel confession.
novel • Subversion... (1) speaking out against the
• Book of the Book of the Head friars and against govt, (2) reading El
Heart Correo de Ultramar, a radical
• It has • It contains newspaper, (3) sending Ibarra to Swiss
freshnesh, bitterness, Germany, centers of free thought and
color, humor, hatred, pain, Protestantism, (4) picture of a Filipino
and violence, and priest (possible Father Burgos), and (5)
intelligence. sorrow wearing a barong tagalog (attire of the
• 64 chapters • 38 chapters indios because only Spaniards were
allowed to wear their shirts tucked in).
EL FILIBUSTERISMO
• March 21, 1887 - Noli Me Tangere
• August 1887 – Philippines
• October 1887 - Jose Rizal began writing El
Filibusterismo in Calamba
• February 1888 - Jose Rizal was advised
by GG Emilio Terrero to leave Philippines
• March 29, 1891 - El Filibusterismo (Ghent,
Belgium)
• September 1891 - Valentin Ventura
• 1925 - Original Manuscript

GOMBURZA

MARIANO GOMEZ (1799-1872)

- was the head of the three priests and
spent his life writing about abuses against
Filipino priests.
JOSE BURGOS (1837-1972)
- a Filipino Catholic Priest and a leader of
the secularization movement

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LESSON 3: RIZAL’
S LETTER - TO THE WOMEN
OF MALOLOS
• When the Spaniards came into the
Philippines, they brought with them their
patriarchal values about women which
eventually diffused into Philippine culture.
• There was an idea that men should be the
provider of the family and protector of the
women.
• Filipinos were familiarized to be a
patriarchal system of education which
emphasizes the domestic value that
women were the property of men.
This letter was written in Tagalog, while Rizal
was in London
- December 12, 1888, a group of 20 women
of Malolos petitioned Governor-General
Weyler for permission to open a night
school so that they may study Spanish
under Teodoro Sandiko.
- Father Felipe Garcia objected resulting
into the turning down of the petition by
the Governor-General.
Marcelo H. Del Pilar
- But these young women courageously
sustained their agitation for the
establishment of the school. They
triumphed in the end and were granted
permission to their project on the
condition that Señorita Guadalupe Reyes
should be their teacher.
The letter of Rizal transmitted to the young
women of Malolos focused on the following points:
the rejection of the spiritual authority of the friars;
the defense for private judgment; qualities Filipino
mothers need to possess; duties and
responsibilities of Filipino mothers to their
children; duties and responsibilities of a wife to her
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husband; and counsel to young women on their
choice of a lifetime partner.
RIZAL’
S MESSAGE TO FILIPINO WOMEN
• Rizal’ s ultimate desire was to afford
Filipino women the same opportunities
enjoyed by men in education – an
education that will liberate women.
• He emphasized the need for maintaining
the independence of mind and reason. He
urged women to be vigilant over their
rights and not to be docile and passive in
their attitude towards the many injustices
force upon them.
• Responsibilities of Filipino Mothers to their
Children
• It is the mothers who are responsible for
the present servitude of our compatriots,
owing to the unlimited trustfulness of their
loving hearts, to their ardent desire
What then was Rizal trying to put across here?
- He was trying to tell the women that
whatever the mother is, would be her son
becomes. Mothers who can teach nothing
else but kneeling and kissing the hand of
the friars should expect children who are
not only stupid but also exploited slaves.
What then are the duties of the filipino mothers
to their child?
- To raise children close to the image to
God,
- To awaken and prepare the mind of the
child for every good and desirable idea,
and
- To teach children to prefer death with
honor than life with dishonor.
• Rizal stressed the need for mothers to
educate their children on
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• the following values: love for honor, Filipino mothers should teach their children love
sincere and firm character, clear mind, of God, Country, and fellowmen.
clear conduct, notable action, love for Filipino mothers should be glad and honored,
one’s fellowmen, and respect for God like Spartan mothers to offer their sons in
defense of their country.
Qualities mothers have to possess Filipino women should know how to protect
- The Filipino mothers has to be a noble their dignity and honor.
wife. Filipino women should educate themselves
- She has to rear her children in the service aside from retaining their good racial values
of the state Rizal gives reference to the Faith is not merely reciting prayers and wearing
women of Sparta who embody this religious pictures. It is living the real christian
quality. way with good morals and manners
- A wife has to set the standard of behavior
for men around her. (Three basic thigs a
wife must instill in the mind of her
husband: activity and industry; noble
behavior; and worthy sentiments)
- Rizal gave the following advices to a
married woman: (1.) aid her husband, (2.)
share his perils, (3.) refrain from causing
him worry, and (4.) sweeten his moments
of affection.

Rizal’
s advice to unmarried men and women
- Rizal directly telling young men that in
choosing their lifetime partner, they
should not consider physical beauty nor
the sweetness character of a woman. But
rather give priority to firmness of
character and excellent ideas.
- On the other hand, Rizal counseled young
women not to surrender their
womanhood to a weak and timid heart.
there are three things that a young
woman must look for a man she is going
to marry: (1.) a noble and honored man,
(2.) a manly heart, and (3.) a high spirit
incapable of being slave.

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