José Rizal wrote and published his first novel Noli Me Tangere in 1887 which criticized the abuses of the Spanish Catholic friars and the ills of the society in the Philippines under Spanish colonial rule. The novel exposed the corruption within the Spanish clergy and their treatment of Filipinos. It also depicted the oppression of the native inhabitants and social classes under the Spanish colonial government.
José Rizal wrote and published his first novel Noli Me Tangere in 1887 which criticized the abuses of the Spanish Catholic friars and the ills of the society in the Philippines under Spanish colonial rule. The novel exposed the corruption within the Spanish clergy and their treatment of Filipinos. It also depicted the oppression of the native inhabitants and social classes under the Spanish colonial government.
José Rizal wrote and published his first novel Noli Me Tangere in 1887 which criticized the abuses of the Spanish Catholic friars and the ills of the society in the Philippines under Spanish colonial rule. The novel exposed the corruption within the Spanish clergy and their treatment of Filipinos. It also depicted the oppression of the native inhabitants and social classes under the Spanish colonial government.