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On El Fili
On El Fili
EL FILIBUSTERISMO:
CONTINUING
RELEVANCE
Learning Objectives
• Discuss the summary and the important
themes in El Filibusterismo
• Explain why a knowledge of history is
important in reading a historical novel
• Examine the conditions of the Philippine
society through Rizal’s El Filibusterismo
Rizal wrote this novel to to describe the Philippine
society and expose the injustices that he and his
fellow Filipinos were experiencing
• Reform - improvement or change to a better
state (social, economic, and political institutions)