Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo Lecture from Prof Francis August Ramos Transcribed by Nikko Izar
Noli Me Tangere NOVELA EL TAGALA
Influenced by Eugene Sue’s The Wandering Jew
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bible
Describing the Philippines under the Spanish Government and Church
Jose Rizal was a student in Univiersidad Central de Madrid
House of Paterno – every propagandist will give a chapter as their contribution
But the propagandist wants to write about women in Europe and about gambling
Rizal wrote it by himself
“Don’t touch me”, Huwag mo kong salingin
It should be in the gospel of John instead of Luke “Araw ng Pagkabuhay” / Resurrection Resurrection with St. Mary of Magdalene
It was made in Madrid, Paris and Germany
Lost chapter in Elias at Salome
Finished in 1887 Berlin
2000 copies for P300 borrowed from Maximo Viola
Copies were given to Ferdinand Blumentritt, Blumentritt, Graciano Lopez, Mariano Ponce and Felix Hidalgo
The galley proof was given to Mr. Viola as sense of gratitude
Dedicated to the Philippines
Social Cancer
Chapter 1 – House of Kapitan Tiyago
Characters: Characters: Crisostomo Ibara son of Don Rafael Ibarra – friend of Kapitan Tiyago (owner of the house)
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo Lecture from Prof Francis August Ramos Transcribed by Nikko Izar
Ma. Clara – lover of the main character
Padre Damaso-fat Franciscan curate of San Diego
Padre Sibyla – Dominican friar of Binondo
Senyor Guevarra – Tenyente
Don Tiburcio de Espadana and Donya Victorina
Easy reading, more of action and motion (Voltairian)
EL FILIBUSTERISMO NOVELA EL FILIPINA
Motivated by the Calamba affair and not by his experience in his student years
Both Noli and El Fili shows strong anti-Clerical and even anti-Catholic color
It discredit the colonial government and religious institutes
A weapon used by a rationalist liberal of the 19 th century would use
Made in Brussels Belgium in Ghent with Jose Alejandrino and Edilberto Edilberto Evangelista
With the help of Valintin Ventura
Dedicated to Gomburza
Noli – love story, El Fili – revenge and anger
Both show situation of the Philippines during the Spanish Period
Idea of liberalism, liberalism, Freedom and Revolution
Thoughtful, discursive and dialectical
Effects of Leonor Rivera, Calamba Controversy, M.H del Pilar
El Fili students – humorous, critical, serious, optimist, frivolous, pessimists, industrious, industrious, indifferent, noisy, silent, leaders and followers
Students discussing discussing and debating – defeat of their cause
Plans of students – revolution
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo Lecture from Prof Francis August Ramos Transcribed by Nikko Izar
Simoun – want to have an academy of Spanish language – organization of Jehu
El Fili professors – Father Millon – the bad professor in Physics
Father Sibyla – not loved by Rizal – became vice rector of the university
Shows discrimination (Tabo)
Students of UST 1.Isagani- unfaithful sweetheart oof Paulita Gomez -without notable defects, intelligent, generous, reasonable and brave 2.Basilio- adopted by Kapitan Tiyago -Another angle of Rizal as a medical student -Shows enigmatic ambiguity character and feeling -oscillating between fear and hope -like Rizal – Pessimism and optimism, illusion and disappointments disappointments of Rizal 3. Makaraeg- afford to go to Europe -leadership character like Rizal in Companeros de Jehu -very rich -comfortable financial situation like Rizal -discreet 4. Sandoval – Peninsulares Peninsulares -shows a 19th century Spanish liberalist, open-minded, great orator, anti-clerical 5.Tadeo- Lachuacha student, like holidays, most interested with the girls -universal type of person common to all schools, periods and places 6.Pecson- scpetical, pessimistic, anti-type of Sandoval -Mistrust of the government and friars -also like Rizal 7. Juanito Pelaez- always irritates his classmates
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo Lecture from Prof Francis August Ramos Transcribed by Nikko Izar
Unforgivable crime- he married Paulita Gomez 8.PLacido Penintente – Peaceful, placid patient, unhappy experience in the classroom -joined the rebels
Priest – hypocritical, hypocritical, meddling, ignorant, conservative
Ibarra- liberalist free thinking
Friars – wicked
Filipinos – despairing
Kill all the Spanish authorities and friars!
Reaction of Noli:
Jose Rodriguez – full of heresies, blasphemies and grossest errors False, rash, offensive to friars, injuruos to the sacred hierarch, to the faithful, impious, foolish, erroneous, heretic
Recurrenty Themes in Rizal’s Works by Florentino H. Hornedo, Ph. D.
These are what I percieve to be recurrent themes in the works of Jose Rizal
1. God is the ultimate reason of the universe 2. all humans are equal in dignity 3. Freedom in an essential component of human dignity and 4. love is the supreme manifestation manifestation of a human’s recognition recognition of his divine origin GOD IS THE ULTIMATE REASON OF THE UNIVERSE
Rizal called it Providence, God, and so forth. He believed in a God who made himself known by the unfolding of the human mind through:
1. education and 2. enlightenment by the natural sciences He did not think much of politics and power- grabbing intrigues. Only scientific solutions really work in the interest of the human community ALL HUMANS ARE EQUAL IN DIGNITY
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo Lecture from Prof Francis August Ramos Transcribed by Nikko Izar
No human is born superior to thers in dignity. The apparenr inferiority of certain oppressed peoples is caused by their oppressed and brutalization of oppressors. oppressors. The white man has been particularly guilty of this oppression. This must be upheld as honor at all times, and be defended even to the death. He saw the emerging need of violence as a last resort, but he was unwilling to accept the concomitant death of innocent bystanders and illprepared revolutionaries. revolutionaries.
FREEDOM IS ESSENTIAL TO DIGNITY
UNLESS A HUMAN IS FREE, THE SPIRIT HE/SHE RECEIVED FROM GOD CANNOT UNFOLD, WITHOUT FREEDOM,
1. THE BEST IDEAS CANNOT BE EXPRESSED 2. SCIENCES CANNOT FLOURISH AND WITHOUT THE SCIENCES; -NO MATERIAL PROGRESS -THERE WOULD BE NO DESTITUTION OF BODY AND SPIRIT
Dignity is virtuousness; and virtue means living according to principles, NOT according to mere convenience.
Love is the supreme manifestation of any human’s recognition of his divine origin
Rizal was often nearly mystical. He had tender sympathy for the poor and helpless:
1. He tried tried to allevi alleviate ate pain pain throug through h medicin medicine; e; 2. He taught taught the ignor ignorant ant 3. He provided provided potable potable water water for for the people people of of Dapitan; Dapitan; 4. He was concerned concerned for the basic needs and happiness of his family family and other people around him. This consuming concern for people’s welfare was his religion.
