WEEK 11

RIZAL CHOOSES TO STUDY IN LONDON WITH THREE

REASONS
• 1.TO IMPROVE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• 2. TO STUDY AND ANNOTATE MORGA'S SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS, A RARE COPY OF
WHICH HE HEARD TO BE AVAILABLE IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
• 3. LONDON WAS A SAFE PLACE FOR HIM TO CARRY ON HIS FIGHT AGAINST SPANISH
TYRANNY.
 TRIP ACROSS ATLANTIC

• THE TRANS-ATLANTIC VOYAGE OF RIZAL FROM NEW YORK TO LIVERPOOL

WAS A PLEASANT ONE. HE WAS ON BOARD "CITY OF ROME". RIZAL
ENTERTAINED THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PASSENGERS WITH HIS
MARVELOUS SKILLS WITH THE YO-YO AS AN OFFENSIVE WEAPON. YOYO, A
SMALL WOODEN DISC ATTACHED TO A STRING FROM THE FINGER. ON MAY
24, 1888, RIZAL ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND. HE SPEND THE NIGHT AT
ADELPHI HOTEL WHILE STAYING FOR ONE DAY IN THIS PORT CITY
RIZAL IN LONDON
 LIFE IN LONDON
• ON MAY 25, 1888, A DAY AFTER DOCKING AT
LIVERPOOL, RIZAL WENT TO LONDON. HE STAYED
AS GUEST AT THE HOME OF DR. ANTONIO MA.
REGIDOR, AN EXILE OF 1872 AND A PRACTICING
LAWYER IN LONDON. BY THE END OF MAY, RIZAL
FOUND A MODEST BOARDING PLACE AT NO. 37
CHALCOT CRESCENT, PRIMROSE HILL. OWNED BY
BECKETT FAMILY. MR. BECKETT WAS AN ORGANIST
OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
 BAD NEWS FROM HOME

• 1. PERSECUTION OF FILIPINO PATRIOTS WHO SIGNED "ANTI-FRIAR PETITION OF 1888"

• 2. PERSECUTION OF CALAMBA TENANTS, INCLUDING RIZAL'S FAMILY AND RELATIVES, FOR THEIR
PETITION ON AGRARIAN REFORMS
• 3. . FURIOUS ATTACKS ON RIZAL BY SENATORS SALAMANCA AND VIDA, AND BY DESENGAÑOS
• 4. MANUEL HIDALGO, HUSBAND OF SATURNINA, WAS EXILED BY GOVERNOR GENERAL WEYLER
TO BOHOL W/O DUE PROCESS OF LAW.
• 5. LAUREANO VIADO, RIZAL'S FRIEND AND A MEDICAL STUDENT AT UST WAS IMPRISONED
BECAUSE COPIES OF THE NOLI WAS FOUND IN HIS HOUSE
 GOOD NEWS

• DEFENSE OF NOLI BY REV. VICENTE GARCIA, A FILIPINO CANON OF THE

MANILA CATHEDRAL. THE NEWS CAME FROM MARIANO PONCE.
SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS (HISTORICAL EVENTS OF
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS)

• WHILE IN LONDON, RIZAL IMMEDIATELY

ACQUAINTED HIMSELF WITH THE BRITISH
MUSEUM WHERE HE FOUND ONE OF THE FEW
REMAINING COPIES OF THAT WORK. AT HIS
OWN EXPENSE, HE HAD THE WORK
REPUBLISHED WITH ANNOTATIONS THAT
SHOWED THE PHILIPPINES WAS AN ADVANCED
CIVILIZATION PRIOR TO THE SPANISH
CONQUEST
 WRITINGS IN LONDON

• RIZAL ALSO WROTE MANY ARTICLES FOR LA SOLIDARIDAD. FRAY RODRIGUEZ ATTACKED HIS
NOLI IN A SERIES OF LEAFLETS WITH TITLE “CUESTIONS DE SUMO INTERES”. HE THEN WROTE A
PAMPHLET ENTITLED “LA VISION DEL FRAY RODRIGUEZ"
• RIZAL ALSO WROTE THE FAMOUS “LETTER TO THE YOUNG MALOLOS”.
• HE ALSO WROTE ARTICLES FOR THE TRUBNER’S RECORD, A JOURNAL RELATED TO ASIAN
STUDIES WHEREIN HE CONTRIBUTED “TWO EASTERN FABLES” AND “SPECIMENS OF TAGALA
FOLKLORE”.
 ROMANCE WITH "GETTIE"

• GERTUDE BECKETT, THE ELDEST OF THE ‘THREE’ (SOME SAY ‘FOUR’)

BECKETT SISTERS.
• GERTRUDE (ALSO CALLED ‘GETTIE’ OR ‘TOTTIE’) WAS A CURVY LADY
WITH CHEERFUL BLUE EYES, BROWN HAIR, ROSY CHEEKS, AND THIN LIPS.
• RIZAL CALLED HER “GETTIE” AND SHE CALLED RIZAL AS “PETTIE”
• HE COULD NOT MARRY GETTIE FOR HE HAS A MISSION TO FULFILL IN LIFE.
WITH IRON WILL, RIZAL SUPPRESSED THE PASSIONATE YEARNING OF HIS
HEART
RIZAL IN PARIS
AND THE UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION
 LIFE IN PARIS

• MOST HOTELS AND INNS WERE ALREADY FULLY BOOKED, EVEN BOARDING HOUSES AND
ROOMS FOR RENT. RIZAL FRESH FROM LONDON EXPERIENCED SPINNING PARISIAN LIFE.
• HE STAYED IN A SMALL ROOM WITH TWO FILIPINOS- CAPITAN JUSTO TRINIDAD, FORMER
GOBERNADORCILLO OF STA. ANA, MANILA, AND JOSE ALBERT, A YOUNG STUDENT FROM
MANILA.
• HE SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME READING THE BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE AND CHECKING UP ON
HIS HISTORICAL ANNOTATIONS ON MORGA’S BOOK.
 KIDLAT CLUB

• TOWARDS THE END OF MARCH 1889, RIZAL ORGANIZED HIS PAISANOS

(COMPATRIOTS) INTO A SOCIETY CALLED “KIDLAT CLUB”.
• IT WAS A TEMPORARY SOCIAL CLUB WITH TEMPORARY NATURE
• SIMPLY TO BRING TOGETHER THE YOUNG FILIPINOS IN THE CAPITAL SO THAT
THEY COULD ENJOY THEIR SOJOURN IN THE CITY DURING THE UNIVERSAL
EXPOSITION.
 INDIOS BRAVOS

• RIZAL AND THE MEMBERS OF THE KIDLAT CLUB USUALLY WENT SIGHTSEEING TRIPS. IN ONE
OCCASION THEY SAW BUFFALO BILL’S TROUPE AND WERE IMPRESSED BY THE AMERICAN
INDIANS.
• RIZAL CAME TO A REALIZATION THAT THERE’S NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF BEING CALLED
INDIOS
• LET US BE LIKE THEM HE SAID. PROUD OF THE NAME INDIO AND MAKE OUR SPANISH ENEMIES
REVISE THEIR CONCEPTION OF THR TERM.
• THEN HE SAID, THEY SHALL BE “INDIOS BRAVOS”.
 HIS WHITE CHRISTMAS

• ON DECEMBER 25, 1889, RIZAL AND JOSE ALBERT PLANNED TO HAVE A DELIGHTFUL
CHRISTMAS DINNER.
• THE TWO PREPARED THE DINNER WITH FRIED CHICKEN, NUE AND VEGETABLES
• RIZAL GOT A GIFT FROM MRS. BECKETT A BOOK TITLED " A LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF
VALENTINE VOX, THE VENTRILOQUIST"
• AFTER NEW YEAR, RIZAL VISITS LONDON TO COMPARE HIS WORK OF MORGA’S SUCESOS
WITH THE ORIGINAL COPY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
• HE ALSO WANTED TO VISIT GETTIE FOR THE LAST TIME
• HE MET BY ACCIDENT HIS FRIEND FROM TOKYO, TETCHO SUEHIRO
 SCULPTURAL WORKS

• 1. PROMETHEUS BOUND
• 2. THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH OVER LIFE
• 3. THE TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE OVER DEATH" (HE GAVE
BOTH THE TRIUMPH TO HIS FRIEND, BLUMENTRITT)
• 4. A COMPOSITE CARVING OF THE HEADS OF THE
BECKETT SISTERS AS FAREWELL GIFT TO THEM.
 ADIOS!
BY THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY, HE CAME BACK TO PARIS.
HE THEN LEFT PARIS ON JANUARY 28 FOR BRUSSLES, BELGIUM.
THANK YOU!
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