Chapter 19-El Fili Published in Ghent PDF
Chapter 19-El Fili Published in Ghent PDF
Chapter 19-El Fili Published in Ghent PDF
El Filibusterismo
Published in Ghent
Overview
Reasons:
- The cost of living was lower
- The cost of printing in Ghent was cheaper than in Brussels
- To escape from the enticing attraction of Petite Suzanne
• Owing to his limited funds Rizal lived in a cheap boarding
house, with Jose Alejandro as roommate
• They lived frugally in Ghent for 3 months form July to
September
• To economize further on their living expenses, they
prepared their own breakfast.
Ghent
Jose Alejandro and University of Ghent
The Printing
– Foreword
– Warning
The Manuscript
Synopsis of the El
Filibusterismo
• Simoun – the main protagonist of the story a rich
jeweler.
• Dona Victorina – ridiculously a pro-spanish woman
• Tiburcio de Espadana – husband of Dona Victorina
• Paulita Gomez – beautiful niece of Don Tiburcio
• Ben-Zayb – Spanish journalist who writes silly articles
about Filipinos
• Padre Sibyla – Vice-Rector of UST
• Padre Camorra – spanish priest of Tiani
• Don Custodio – pro-spanish Filipino holding a high
position in the government
• Padre Salvi – Franciscan friar a former cura of San
Diego
• Padre Irene – a kind friar who was a friend to Filipino
students
• Padre Florentino – a retired scholarly and patriotic
Filipino priest
Synopsis of the El
Filibusterismo
• Simoun – the main protagonist of the story a rich
jeweler.
• Dona Victorina – ridiculously a pro-spanish woman
• Tiburcio de Espadana – husband of Dona Victorina
• Paulita Gomez – beautiful niece of Don Tiburcio
• Ben-Zayb – Spanish journalist who writes silly articles
about Filipinos
• Padre Sibyla – Vice-Rector of UST
• Padre Camorra – spanish priest of Tiani
• Don Custodio – pro-spanish Filipino holding a high
position in the government
• Padre Salvi – Franciscan friar a former cura of San
Diego
• Padre Irene – a kind friar who was a friend to Filipino
students
• Padre Florentino – a retired scholarly and patriotic
Filipino priest
Synopsis of the El
Filibusterismo
• Isagani – nephew of Padre Florentino and lover of
Paulita
• Basilio – son of Sisa a promising medical student
• Capitan Tiago – patron of Basilio
• Quiroga – rich Chinese merchant
• Cabesang Tales – father of Juli dispossessed of his land
in Tiani by friars
• Juli – the lover of Basilio
• Makaraig – rich and leader of Filipino students in their
movement to learn Spanish in the academy
• Padre Millon – teaches Physics in UST w/o experiments
• Placido Penitente – student of Padre Millon who bacame
disoriented bcause of the poor methods of instruction
• Senor Pasta – old Filipino lawyer who refuses to help
Filipino students in their advocacy
• Tandang Selo – grandfather of Juli
Synopsis of the El
Filibusterismo
• Mr. American – owner of the sideshow at the fair of
Quiapo exhibiting an Egyptian Mummy.
• Sandoval – a Spanish student who supports the cause
of the Filipino students to propagate the teaching of
Spanish
• Cabesa Andang – mother of Placido Penitente
• Pepay – pretty dancer and mistress of Don Custodio
• Padre Fernandez – a good dominican friar and friend of
Isagani
• Don Timoteo – father of Juanito Pelaez
• Tano – son Cabesang Tales and brother of Juli
• Chichay – the silversmith who made the bridal earring
for Paulita Gomez
• Characters from El Filibusterismo were draw by Rizal from
real life
Noli FILI
- Romantic Novel - political novel
• Makamisa
- a tagalog novel
- written in light sarcastic style
- incomplete with only 2 chapters
- consists of only of 20 pages
• Dapitan
- written in Ironic Spanish
- he wrote it while in Dapitan to depict the town life and
customs
- Consists of 8 pages
• A novel in Spanish about the life in Pili, a town in Laguna
- consist of 147 pages
- without title
• Another unfinished novel of Rizal, also without title, is about
Cristobal, a youthful Filipino student who has returned from
Europe
- consists if 34 pages
• The beginning of another novel are contained in two
notebooks. The first notebook contains 31 written pages
while the second contains 12 pages
- written in Spanish and the style is ironic