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    Introduction To José Rizal'S Noli Me Tangere

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    The document provides an introduction to Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere, which was published in 1887 and played a crucial role in the Philippines' political history. The novel offers a critique of Spanish colonial rule through the story of Crisostomo Ibarra, who returns home with ideas for reform but faces opposition from the abusive Catholic clergy and indifferent Spanish administration. Ibarra debates how to accomplish meaningful change with the mysterious Elias, and they disagree on whether violence or peaceful means are best. Ibarra is eventually implicated in a fake insurrection and flees with Elias' help, but one dies while the other survives, representing the difficult path to reform under colonial rule. Through memorable characters, Rizal

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    The document provides an introduction to Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere, which was published in 1887 and played a crucial role in the Philippines' political history. The novel offers a critique of Spanish colonial rule through the story of Crisostomo Ibarra, who returns home with ideas for reform but faces opposition from the abusive Catholic clergy and indifferent Spanish administration. Ibarra debates how to accomplish meaningful change with the mysterious Elias, and they disagree on whether violence or peaceful means are best. Ibarra is eventually implicated in a fake insurrection and flees with Elias' help, but one dies while the other survives, representing the difficult path to reform under colonial rule. Through memorable characters, Rizal

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    INTRODUCTION TO JOSÉ RIZAL’S NOLI ME TANGERE

    by Luis H. Francia

    Written in Spanish and published in 1887, José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere played a crucial role in
    the political history of the Philippines. Drawing from experience, the conventions of the
    nineteenth-century novel, and the ideals of European liberalism, Rizal offered up a devastating
    critique of a society under Spanish colonial rule.

    The plot revolves around Crisostomo Ibarra, mixed-race heir of a wealthy clan, returning home
    after seven years in Europe and filled with ideas on how to better the lot of his countrymen.
    Striving for reforms, he is confronted by an abusive ecclesiastical hierarchy and a Spanish civil
    administration by turns indifferent and cruel. The novel suggests, through plot developments,
    that meaningful change in this context is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible.

    The death of Ibarra’s father, Don Rafael, prior to his homecoming, and the refusal of a Catholic
    burial by Padre Damaso, the parish priest, provokes Ibarra into hitting the priest, for which Ibarra
    is excommunicated. The decree is rescinded, however, when the governor general intervenes.
    The friar and his successor, Padre Salvi, embody the rotten state of the clergy. Their tangled
    feelings—one paternal, the other carnal—for Maria Clara, Ibarra’s sweetheart and rich Capitan
    Tiago’s beautiful daughter, steel their determination to spoil Ibarra’s plans for a school. The
    town philosopher Tasio wryly notes similar past attempts have failed, and his sage commentary
    makes clear that all colonial masters fear that an enlightened people will throw off the yoke of
    oppression.

    Precisely how to accomplish this is the novel’s central question, and one which Ibarra debates
    with the mysterious Elias, with whose life his is intertwined. The privileged Ibarra favors
    peaceful means, while Elias, who has suffered injustice at the hands of the authorities, believes
    violence is the only option.

    Ibarra’s enemies, particularly Salvi, implicate him in a fake insurrection, though the evidence
    against him is weak. Then Maria Clara betrays him to protect a dark family secret, public
    exposure of which would be ruinous. Ibarra escapes from prison with Elias’s help and confronts
    her. She explains why, Ibarra forgives her, and he and Elias flee to the lake. But chased by the
    Guardia Civil, one dies while the other survives. Convinced Ibarra’s dead, Maria Clara enters the
    nunnery, refusing a marriage arranged by Padre Damaso. Her unhappy fate and that of the more
    memorable Sisa, driven mad by the fate of her sons, symbolize the country’s condition, at once
    beautiful and miserable.

    Using satire brilliantly, Rizal creates other memorable characters whose lives manifest the
    poisonous effects of religious and colonial oppression. Capitan Tiago; the social climber Doña
    Victorina de Espadaña and her toothless Spanish husband; the Guardia Civil head and his
    harridan of a wife; the sorority of devout women; the disaffected peasants forced to become
    outlaws: in sum, a microcosm of Philippine society. In the afflictions that plague them, Rizal
    paints a harrowing picture of his beloved but suffering country in a work that speaks eloquently
    not just to Filipinos but to all who have endured or witnessed oppression.

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