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    NOLI ME TANGERE


    A DIAGNOSIS OF FILIPINO SOCIETY
    by: Princess Alcala
    Yarren Mikhaela Silang
    Dhapnie Mae Reyes
    INDIOS BRAVOS

    Used by Rizal to
    call to have a sense
    of national identity
    as a Filipino
    Rizal presented a proposal on
    writing a novel about the

    Philippines to the Circulo-
    Hispano on January 02 1884
    realizing the need for
    Filipinos and the country to
    be known in Europe.
    NINAY
    Published by Pedro Paterno

    with the subtitle Custombres
    Filipinas (Philippine Custom)

    Delved on aspect of the


    Filipino culture.
    Ideas used
     by
    Rizal in writing
    a novel about
    the Philippines
    LUNA’s SPOLARIUM

     The spolarium was perceived
    by Rizal as a reflection of
    spirit of the social, moral and

    political life of his time
    because it clearly showed
    mankind under severe or deal,
    mankind unredeemed and
    reason and aspiration and in an
    open struggle
    UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin is
    written by Harriet
     which
    Beecher Stowe
    portrayed the brutalities
    committed by Americans
    slave owners against
    their negros slaves
    The Wandering Dew

    An anti-clerical novel written by


    EUGENE SUE
    The writing of the Noli Me
    Tangere
    1884 – Rizal started writing

    the Noli Me Tangere
    February 21, 1887 – finished
    the novel at Berlin, Germany.
    March 21, 1877 – came off
    the press
    Touch me not – was the
    English translation of Rizal’s
    First Literary masterpiece
    Noli Me Tangere
     Noli Me Tangere revolves
    around Crisostomo Ibarra who,
    after a seven-year stay in

    Europe to study, comes home to
    his town of San Diego, brimming
    with the desire to contribute to
    the development of the
    townspeople.  More specifically,
    as a reformist, he aims to make
    education accessible to more
    people.  His idealism, however,
    cannot bear fruit because of
    insidious forces bent on
    destroying him.  
    Ibarra learns that
    his father,
     Don
    Rafael, had been
    embroiled in a conflict
    with Padre Damaso,
    who eventually causes
    his humiliation and
    death.
     It is not only political power
    that the friar wields; he has
    also used power to seduce the

    mother of Maria Clara,
    Ibarra' s sweetheart.  Ibarra
    has another enemy in the
    person of Padre Salvi, who
    lusts after Maria Clara.  It is
    also Padre Salvi who almost
    causes Ibarra ' s death at
    the ground-
    breaking ceremonies for the
    school.  
    Things come to a head when
    Ibarra is implicated in a
    failed uprising instigated by

    Padre Salvi.  The young man
    is imprisoned but is
    eventually rescued by Elias,
    whose life Ibarra has saved
    in the past.  As the novel
    ends, the thoroughly
    disillusioned Ibarra sees a
    bleak future.
     Crisóstomo Ibarra – Main
    character of the novel. Represent
    the affluent and liberal European-
    educated Filipino. Civic-minded,

    liberty-minded and patriotic, he
    desired the education of the
    people.
     Eliás – he represents the Filipino
    masses in the novel.
     Maria Clara- She symbolizes the
    Filipino womanhood in their
    fidelity, coyness, and modesty
    Don Rafael Ibarra-
    Crisostomo’s father, he
    symbolizes an affluent landlord

    with a social conscience
    Sisa- She is the mother of
    Basilio and Crispin, she
    illustrates the typical Filipino
    mothers
    Capitan Tiago- also known as
    Don Anastacio delos Santos. He
    represent the subservient
    Filipino to the authorities to
    protect his personal business
    interest.
     Doña Victorina- She is a social
    climber who symbolizes colonial
    mentality among some Filipinos

     Doña Patrocinio- mistress of
    the Alferez she was imprudent,
    vulgar, cruel, and quarrelsome
     Pilosopo Tasyo- he perceived
    Rizals epitome of philosopher
     The school master of San
    Diego- an educated individual
    who symbolize intellectual
    dissatisfaction in the Filipino
    society
    The Filipino Society as pictured
    in the Noli Me Tangere

     The government was administered
    by self seekers motivated by the
    desire to enrich themselves at the
    expense of the people
     Corruption became so rampant due
    to few honest and sincere official.
     The friars used the Catholic
    Church to amass wealth and to
    perpetuate themselves into power.
    Noli Me Tangere as Charter
    of Filipino Nationalism


    To regain self confidence
    Appreciate self-worth
    Return to the heritage of
    his ancestors
    Assert himself as a co-
    equal Spaniards
    First Reaction to the
    Noli
    Works by Filipino writers from

    1882-1896
     Paterno’s novel Ninay, published in
    Maldrid in 1885
     Del Pilar’s La Soberania Monacal
    and Graciano Lopez Jaena’s
    Discursos y Articulos Varios
    published in Barcelona in 1889 and
    1891
     Antonio Luna’s Impresiones, which
    came out in Madrid 1893
    Antonio Regido is one of whose
    congratulated Rizal for writing and
    publishing the novel


    Ferdinand Blumentrit praised Rizal
    and become Rizal’s friend thru
    correspondence
    When Rizal returned to the
    Philippines, reations for and against
    the Noli Me Tangere suface
    Archbishop Payo was able to have a
    copy of the Noli and sent the same
    to the rector of UST for
    examination on August 18,1887
    The rector constituted a threeman
    committee to pass judgement on the
    novel.


    August 30,1887
    -committee submitted its report to
    archbishop of Manila
    It found the book heretical, impious
    and scandalous in its religious aspect,
    unpatriotic, subversive of public order
    and offensive to the government of
    Spain
    Attacks and Defenses of the Noli
    Me Tangere

     The attacks on Rzal’s Noli Me
    Tangere were not only confined in
    the Philippines but were also
    staged in Mandrid.
     Senator Fernando Vida, Deputy
    Luis M. de Pando and Prime
    Minister Praxedes Mateo Sagasta
    were among those who unjustly
    lambasted and criticized Rizal and
    his Noli in the two chambers of
    Spanish Cortes in 1888 and 1889
    ATTACKS OF THE NOLI ME
    TANGERE

     Vicente Barrantes who attacked Rizal in
    1889 by describingRizal as a man of
    contradiction, whose criticisms of the
    friars and the Spanish Regime
     Fr. Salvador Font who issued the official
    censure of the Noli,tried to prevent the
    circulation of the Novel by publishing a
    few copies of his report
     Father Jose Rodriguez lauched a direct
    attack on the Noli by issuing a series of
    pamphlets under the title Cuestiones de
    Sumo Interes
    DEFENSES OF THE NOLI ME TANGERE
     Fr. Francisco Sanchez – Rizal’s

    teacher in rhetoric at Ateneo
     Fr. Vicente Gracia – the translator
    into tagalog of the Famous Imitation
    of Christ under the pen name
    Desiderio Magalang.
     Marcelo H. del Pilar – wrote the
    pamphlet Caiingat Cayo ( Beware )
     Ferdinand Blumentritt- defense
    stressed his Catholic orientation

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