LIFE AND WORKS

OF RIZAL
WHY WAS RIZAL,
HERO A CREOLE?
Filipino today, most of them
have native Spanish blood.
 CREOLE:
ethnic groups which originated during
the colonial-era from racial mixing
mainly between Africans and
Europeans and sometimes South
Asian people.
 • CREOLE:

it is a language that has developed

from a mixture of different languages
and has become the main language in
a particular place.
A Creole class in a pure sense never
existed in the Philippines.
The Spanish didn’t come here in such
numbers as to establish a large enough
community that could intermarry within itself
and keep blood pure.
 Midway of 19 century, the Philippine
th

Creoles had no such scruples about blood

purity and were distinguished as a class
part.
 Why did Rizal make the
“translated Filipino” as hero?
•Rizal trying to identify the
Creoles.
•A great writer always
writing about his times,
even when he seems to be
writing about something
else, and Rizal’s novels are
historical parables.
Rizal prophesying?
The novels were after all, written a
decade before 1896, and we know
that the events that most influenced
Rizal, that must have shaped those
novels, were the events with which he
grew up.
The clue is in the dedication of
El Filibusterismo.
-To the memory of the priest, Don Mariano
Gomez, Don Jose Burgos and Don Jacinto
Zamora, executed in Bagumbayan,
(February 28, 1872).
-Rizal was aware that the Revolution was
going on to his country, a revolution inspired
at first by the person then the memory of
Burgos as Creole.
Father Pelaez, as a Creole campaign
against the Peninsulares. Rizal also
knew that Spain was overthrown in
America by the various uprising of
Creoles.
The CREOLE
• -In 17th and 18th centuries the Philippine Creole were
Filipino in the sense that their lives were entirely
devoted to the service of the country to expanding or
consolidating the national frontiers and protecting
them.
• -The Dutch Wars for instance- a crucial period in our
country lasted for 50 years.
• -Tagalogs and Pampangos who fought with the creoles
to defend the islands during those centuries of siege.
THE ENCOMIENDA
SYSTEM
• -The Philippine Creole depended more for
subsistence on the Galleon trade and on
mining.
• -As a gentleman manual labor was forbidden,
he could enter only the Army, the Church and
the government.
• - the Creoles formed first secular clergy, first
civil service only late in Spanish times.
• -The Creole turn to agriculture, dedicating himself
to sugar culture in Negros and Pampanga, to abaca
culture in Bicolandia, to cattle culture in the
various Rancherias in the north.
• the Creole was a” Filipino”, not a Spaniard. He
controlled the government; Madrid was presented
only the governor general who was detested as a
“foreigner” he had to make an accounting of his
stewardship before he could return to Madrid.
• -With the revolt of Spanish America and the
opening of the Suez Canal , Madrid came
closer to Manila; and the quicker voyage now
brought to the Philippines
• -These peninsular parasites, considered
themselves several cuts above the Filipino”-
that is the Creole- and begun to crowd him
out of Army,church and Government. The
war between Creole and Peninsular had
Meanwhile, the Philippine Creole was rising,
stirred into insurgence by the example of
Mexican Creole of the Manila garrison.
• treaty between two imperial provinces:
• Philippines and Guatemala
• The Philippines got he chance to break away from
Spain in 1821.
• However , the revolt of the Mexican Creole captain
Novales - who was proclaim edemperor of the
Philippines. One day and executed on the
cathedral square of Manila the next day.
• - The fate of Burgos (the garrote) and Regidor (exile)
put and end to the idea of eventualism.
• The Creoles that come after-mostly educated on the
continent and affiliated with the MASONIC ORDER.
Are already frankly filibusteros-that is subversives.
• Their greatest spokesman is Marcel H. del Pilar, the
Creole who undoubtedly possessed the most brilliant
mastery of Spanish a Filipino ,whose talent got
deadened by journalistic deadlines.
The Rizal novels probe two phases of the
Creole revolution: Noli Me Tangere and
El Filibusterismo
• -Noli Me Tangere, still in the epoch of Pelaez and
Burgos, the eventualists; and Ibarra believes that
Education and propaganda will eventually create
a climate of reform.
• -El Filibusterismo, in the period of Del Pilar and
Pardo de Tavera; and the sinister Simoun, white-
locked and long bearded, is no longer a
propagandist but a corrupter.
 END…
Godbles Dear!!