El Filibusterismo

OVERVIEW

The novel and it’s history

Objectives of Dr. Rizal
Synopsis
Characters
Noli and Fili compared
EL FILIBUSTERISMO

 Author: Jose Rizal

 Language: Spanish
 The Reign of Greed
EL FILIBUSTERISMO
TRANSLATIONS
WRITTEN
FOR?
THE TITLE

“The word filibuster is little known in the

Philippines. The masses do not know it yet. I
heard it for the first time in 1872 when the tragic
executions took place.”
THE TITLE

“I still remember the panic that this word created. Our

father forbade us to utter it, as well as the words Cavite,
Burgos, etc. The Manila newspapers and Spaniards
apply this word to one whom they want to make
revolutionary suspect.”
THE TITLE

“The Filipinos belonging to the educated class fear the

reach of the word. It does not have the meaning of
freebooters; it rather means a dangerous patriot who
will soon be hanged or well, a presumptuous man.”
- Jose Rizal
 September 18, 1891, Ghent
Revised 1888

STARTED:
Calamba Laguna
OCTOBER 1887
March 29, 1891

BIARRIT
Z
GHENT, BELGIUM
HISTORY OF THE NOVEL

 Sent two copies to Hong Kong for Basa and Sixto Lopez
 Original manuscript and an autographed copy to Valentin
Ventura
 Blumentritt,Mariano Ponce, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Antonio
Luna, T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Juan Luna.
 JOSE RIZAL SENT
COPIES OF EL FILI TO
HIS FRIENDS.

VALENTIN ANTONIO LUNA

VENTURA

FERDINAND T.H. PARDO DE MARIANO PONCE GRACIANO LOPEZ

BLUMENTRITT TAVERA JAENA
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT

Original manuscript – preserved in the Filipiniana

Division of the Bureau of Public Libraries, Manila
Valentin Ventura for 10,000 pesos
279 pages, long sheets paper
National Library of Philippines
OBJECTIVES OF RIZAL

 1. To defend Filipino people from foreign accusations of

foolishness and lack of knowledge.

 2. To show how the Filipino people live during Spanish

colonial period and the cries and woes of his countrymen
against abusive officials.
OBJECTIVES OF RIZAL

 3. To discuss what religion and belief can really do to

everyday lives.

 4. To expose the cruelties, graft and corruption of the false

government and honestly show the wrong doings of
Filipinos that led to further failures.
SYPNOSIS

 Return of Cristomo Ibarra

 Disguised as a wealthy jeweler, Simoun
 Abandons his pacifist beliefs and start a violent revolution.
 Basilio warns his friend Isagani.
 Isaganithrows the bomb into the river when he realized that
the woman he love is in the building.
SYPNOSIS

 Simoun commits suicide by taking poison and finds resting

place at the home of Father Florentino.
 Father Florentino hear his last confession and assures him
that not all hope is lost.
 Upon Simoun’s death, Florentino commend the jewels into
the sea.
CHARACTERS
NOLI VS EL FILI

NOLI ME TANGERE EL FILIBUSTERISMO

 Romantic novel  Political novel
 Book of the heart  Work of the head
 Book of feeling  Book of thought
 Freshness, color, humor and  Bitterness, pain, violence, and
intelligent sorrow
 64 chapters   38 chapters