EL FILIBUSTERISMO:TO THE FILIPINO AND GOVERNMENT

:WHY COUNTING COUNTS: A STUDY OF FORMS OF CONCIOUSNESS AND PROBLEMS

OF LANGUAGE IN NOLI ME TANGERE AND EL FILIBUSTERISMO

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EL FILIBUSTERISMO
 It is the second novel written by Jose Rizal as the
sequel to Noli Me Tangere. Like Noli Me Tangere, it is
also written in Spanish.
 Means “The reign of Greed” in English.
 It consist of 38 chapters.
 Rizal dedicated the novel to the three martyred
priests of Cavity Mutiny. The execution of the three
priests was significant to the title of the novel.
HISTORY OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO

 Rizal took 3 years to write his second novel.

 Rizal began writing the novel in October 1887 while
he was in Calamba.
 He revised the plot and some chapters in London
(1888). He continued to work on his manuscript in
Paris.
HISTORY OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO

 Rizal later moved to Brussels where the cost of living

was cheaper and he would be less likely to be
distracted by social events so he could focus on
finishing the novel.
 He completed the novel on March 29, 1891 in
Biarritz.
HISTORY OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO

 September 18, 1891 – the novel was published in

Ghent, partially funded by Rizal’s friend Valentin
Ventura. Rizal immediately sent on this date two
printed copies to Hong Kong – one for Basa and the
other one for Sixto Lopez.
HISTORY OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO

 Rizal gratefully donated the original manuscript and

an autographed printed copy to Valentino Ventura.
 Rizal sent complimentary copies to Blumentritt,
Mariano Ponce, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Antonio Luna,
T.H Pardo de Tavera, Juan Luna and other friends.
HISTORY OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO

 The El Nuevo Regimen – liberal Madrid newspaper

serialized the novel in its issues of October 1891.
 Original manuscript of El Filibusterismo in Rizal’s own
handwriting is now preserve in the Filipiniana Division
of the Bureau of Public libraries in Manila.
HISTORY OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO

 Acquired by Philippine government from Valentin

Ventura for 10, 000 pesos.
 Consists of 279 pages of long sheets paper.
MESSAGE OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO

o The officials governing the Philippines are dominated

by Friars and submissive to their own interests
resulting for the country to have a more corrupt and
unjust government system.
o The government is subjective, cruel, completely
lacking in a sense of justice or responsibility and
without interest or trust to the people it governs.
MESSAGE OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO

o Friars abuses their power, rob men of their lands,

preserve their monopoly of education, always seeking
their own interests rather than those of the country or
even Spain.
RIZAL’S POINT OF VIEW ON EL
FILIBUSTERISMO
 Rizal proclaims unstable and presumably irreversible
status of Spanish sovereignty in the Philippines, yet he
never urges revolution.
Rizal does not want intermediate independence. The
task is ofr the Filipino’s to prepare themselves, to make
themselves worthy of freedom and then God will grant
the means, be it revolution or peaceful separation
from Spain.
RIZAL’S POINT OF VIEW ON EL
FILIBUSTERISMO

 Education, decent lives, and willingness to sacrifice

for one’s convictions, even to suffer from martyrdom
– this is the road that Rizal would have his
countrymen travel.
OBJECTIVES OF RIZAL IN WRITING EL
FILIBUSTERISMO

 To defend Filipino people from foreign accusations of

foolishness and lack of knowledge.
 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 IN WRITING EL
FILIBUSTERISMO

 To discuss what religion and beliefs can really do to

everyday lives.
 To expose the cruelties, graft and corruption of false
government and honestly show the wrong doings of
Filipinos that led to further failure.
RELEVANCE OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO
TO THE CURRENT SOCIETY
 It serves as an inspiration to the Filipino people. It
brings a profound effect on the Philippine society in
terms of views about national identity, the Catholic
faith and its influence on Filipino’s choice, and the
government’s issues of corruption, abuse and
discrimination, and on a larger scale, the issues
related to the effect of colonization on people’s lives
and the cause for independence.
 Why Counting Counts: A Study of Forms of
Consciousness and Problems of Language in Noli me
Tangere and El Filibusterismo
Written by: Benedict Anderson
Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 –
December 13, 2015) was an Anglo-Irish political scientist and
historian who lived and taught in the United States. Anderson
is best known for his 1983 book Imagined Communities,
which explored the origins of nationalism.
He was a multilingual who spoke many languages (English,
Indonesian, Javanese, Thai, and Tagalog).
Why Counting Counts: A Study of Forms of Consciousness
and Problems of Language in Noli me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo

The book examines Jose Rizal's great novels, Noli Me Tangere

and El Filibusterismo, through a hitherto untried quantitative
analysis of the scope and evolution of their political and social
vocabulary, as well as their use of Tagalog and the lengua de
Parian.
It took the difficult task of counting the occurrence of particular linguistic terms—racial or ethnic terms, political vocabulary among others—in the two novels.

This microscopic approach sought to turn away from one that relies on ‘selective and often tendentious short quotations from the novels in order to force their author into particular politics’. As an alternative, Anderson looked at contexts: the
characters using the terms, the interlocutors and the context of the conversations.
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