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    This document provides background information on El Filibusterismo, Jose Rizal's second novel. It summarizes that the novel is the sequel to Noli Me Tangere and continues the story of Crisostomo Ibarra, who returns to the Philippines under an alias to start a revolution against Spanish abuse. The document also outlines some of the novel's key characters, plot points, and Rizal's objectives in writing the book to expose corruption and injustice under Spanish colonial rule.

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    EL FILIBUSTERISMO

    • also known by its English alternative


    title The Reign of Greed.
    • It is the second novel written by our
    Philippine National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal.
    • It is the sequel to Noli Me Tangere and,
    like the first book, was written in Spanish.
    • It was first published in 1891 in Ghent.
    • It consists of 38 chapters
    Rizal dedicated El Filibusterismo
    to the three martyred priests of
    Cavite mutiny. The execution of t he
    three priests was significant to the
    title of the novel.
    The Title
    - Rizal had to define the word
    filibusterismo to his German friend
    Ferdinand Bluementritt, who did not
    understand his use of the word in
    Noli Me Tangere. In the letter, Rizal
    explained:
    “The word filibusterismo is the little known
    in the Philippines. The masses do not know
    it yet. I heard it for the first time in 1872
    when the tragic executions took place”. I
    still remember the panis that this word
    created. Our Father forbade us to utter it,
    as well as the words Cavite, Burgos, etc.
    The Manila newspapers and the Spaniards
    apply this word to one whom they want to
    make a revolutionary suspect.”
    HISTORY OF THE NOVEL
    • Rizal took three years to write his second
    novel.
    • Rizal began writing El Filibusterismo on
    October 1887 while he was in Calamba.
    • In London (1888), he revised the plot and
    some chapters. Rizal continued to work on
    his manuscript in Paris.
    • He finally completed the book on March 29,
    1891 in Biarritz.
    • September 18, 1891 – the novel was published in
    Ghent, partially funded by Rizal’s friend Valentin
    Ventura. Rizal immediately sent on this date two
    printed copies to Hong Kong- one for Basa and
    the other is for Sixto Lopez.
    • Rizal sent complimentary copies to Bluementritt,
    Mariano Ponce, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Antonio
    Luna, Pardo de Tavera, Juan Luna and other
    friends.
    • The El Nuevo Regimen-liberal Madrid
    newspaper serialized the novel in its issues of
    October 1891.
    • Original manuscript of El
    Filibusterismo in Rizal’s own
    handwriting is now preserved in the
    filipina Divisionof the Bureau of
    Public Libraries in Manila.
    • Acquired by Philippine Government
    from Valentin Ventura for 10,000.
    • It consists of 279 pages of long sheets
    paper.
    OBJECTIVES OF DR. J.R. IN WRITING THE
    NOVEL.
    1. To defend Filipino people from foreign accusations
    of foolishness and lack of knowledge.
    2. To show how the Filipino people live during Spanish
    colonial period and the cries and woes of his
    countrymen against abusive officials.
    3. To discuss what religion and belief can really do to
    everyday lives.
    4. To expose the cruelties, graft and corruption of the
    false government and honestly show the wrong
    doings of Filipinos that led to further failue.
    SYNOPSIS OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO
    The book narrates the return of the
    protagonist of Noli Me Tangere,
    Crisostomo Ibarra, under the disguise of a
    wealthy jeweler named Simoun.
    Disillusioned by the abuses of the
    Spanish, Ibarra abandons his pacifist
    beliefs in order to return to the Philippines
    and start a violent revolution.
    With the help of the Ibarra's riches and Capitan
    Tiago, Basilio was able to go to Colegio de
    San Juan De Letran where, at first, he is
    frowned upon by his peers and teachers
    because of his skin color and his shabby
    appearance but is able to win their favor after
    winning a fencing tournament. Capitan Tiago’s
    confessor, Father Irene, is making Tiago’s
    health worse by giving him opium even as
    Basilio tries hard to prevent Capitan Tiago
    from smoking it.
    Noli Me Tangere’s
    Basilio now a young
    man and a skilled
    medical student,
    is recruited by Ibarra to
    aid him in detoning a
    bomb at a social
    gathering, signalling the
    beginning of the
    revolution.
    CRISOSTOMO
    IBARRA

    SIMOUN
    Father Florentino, upon
    Simoun’s death, commends
    the jewels into the sea,
    remarking that the jewels
    once used to bribe and
    corrupt people, would one day
    be hopefully found to be
    used for a meaningful
    purpose.
    CHARACTERS
    • SIMOUN – Crisostomo Ibarra in disguise.,
    left for dead at the end of Noli Me Tangere.
    • BASILIO – son of Sisa and another
    character from N.M.T. After his deranged
    mother’s death, he became vagaband until
    Captain Tiago took him in out of pity and
    hired him as a houseboy.
    • ISAGANI – Basilio’s friend and one of the
    students who planned to set up a new school.
    • KABESANG TALES – he is a former
    cabeza de barangay of Sagpang, a
    barangay in San Diego’s neighboring
    town in Tiani.
    • DON CUSTODIO – he is a famous
    journalist who was asked by the students
    about his decision for the Academia de
    Castellano.
    • PAULITA GOMEZ – the girlfriend of
    Isagani and the niece of Donya Victorina
    • MACARAIG – one of the Isagani’s
    classmates at the university of Santo Tomas.
    • FATHER FLORENTINO – Isagani’s
    godfather, and the secular priest.
    • JULIANA DE DIOS– girlfriend of Basilio.
    • JUANITO PELAEZ – a hunchbacked student
    who was a favourite of the professors.
    • DONYA VICTORINA – known in N.M.T. as
    Tiburcio de Espadanya’s haughty and cruel
    wife
    • FATHER CAMORRA – the lustful parish priest of
    Tiani, San Diego’s adjacent town who was long-
    time desires for young women.
    • BEN-ZAYB – the pseudonym of Abraham Ibanez,
    a journalist who believes he is the “only” one
    thinking in the Philippines.
    • FATHER IRENE – Captain Tiago’s spiritual
    adviser.
    • QUIROGA – a Chinese businessman who dreamed
    of being consul for his country in the Philippines.
    • CAPTAIN TIAGO – Maria Clara’s stepfather and
    the foster – father to Basilio.

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