NOLI ME

TANGERE
CONTEXT AND CONTENT
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Rizal started to work on the

project in 1884 and completed it in
1887
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Juan Luna's Spoliarium

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Lack of funds delayed the book's

publication until a fellow ilustrado,
Maximo Viola, insisted on lending
him 300 pesos for the printing of
the first 2000 copies.
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MOTIVATIONS BEHIND
WRITING THE NOLI
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MOTIVATIONS BEHIND
WRITING THE NOLI

"I must wake from its slumber the spirit of my country... I must
first propose to my countrymen an example with which they
can struggle against their bad qualities, and afterwards, when
they have reformed, many writers would rise up to present
my country to proud Europe"

(qtd. in Schumacher, 1991, p. 93)

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MOTIVATIONS BEHIND
WRITING THE NOLI

A MI PATRIA
In the annals of human adversity, there is etched a cancer, of
a breed so malignant that the least contact exacerbates it,
and stirs in it the sharpest of pains. And thus, many times
amidst modern cultures I have wanted to evoke you,
sometimes for memories of you to keep me company, other
times, to compare you with other nations-many times your
beloved image appears to me afflicted with a social cancer
of similar malignancy.
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MOTIVATIONS BEHIND
WRITING THE NOLI
A MI PATRIA
Desiring your well-being, which is our own and searching for
the best cure, I will do with you as the ancients of old did
with their afflicted, expose them on the steps of the temple
so that each one who would come to invoke the Divine
would propose a cure for them.
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MOTIVATIONS BEHIND
WRITING THE NOLI
A MI PATRIA
And to this end, I will attempt to faithfully reproduce your
condition without much ado. I will lift part or the shroud that
conceals your illness, sacrificing to the truth everything, even
my own self-respect, for, as your son, I also suffer in your
defects and failings.

Jose Rizal, 1886

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THE PLOT

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Social issues and

political/economic realities
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Praise to Ridicule
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Spanish friars enjoined

devout Catholics not to
read the novel to avoid
committing capital sins
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"man of contradictions"
Vicente Barrantes
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translated into several

languages
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The passage of the Rizal

law
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NOLI AND THE STUDY OF A

COLONIAL SOCIETY

"probably the first systematic social

thinker in Southeast Asia"
(Syed Fareed Alatas)
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NOLI AND THE STUDY OF A

COLONIAL SOCIETY

Scholars interpret that Noli is Rizal's

diagnosis of the ills of colonial society
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NOLI AND THE STUDY OF A

COLONIAL SOCIETY

Rizal highlighted ideas on how the

Philippine society could be
emancipated from the bondage of
colonial rule.