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Filibustero and Gomburza

The document discusses key terms and themes from Rizal's novel El Filibusterismo. It defines the term "filibustero" as used in the novel's title to mean subversive, dissident revolutionary. The book is dedicated to the memory of the Gomburza, three Filipino priest who were accused of being filibustero and executed, which Rizal believed was an unjust treatment. The theme of El Filibusterismo further exposes the real picture of Filipino society under abusive Spanish authorities, dealing with socio-political issues mentioned in Rizal's previous novel Noli Me Tangere.

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Filibustero and Gomburza

The document discusses key terms and themes from Rizal's novel El Filibusterismo. It defines the term "filibustero" as used in the novel's title to mean subversive, dissident revolutionary. The book is dedicated to the memory of the Gomburza, three Filipino priest who were accused of being filibustero and executed, which Rizal believed was an unjust treatment. The theme of El Filibusterismo further exposes the real picture of Filipino society under abusive Spanish authorities, dealing with socio-political issues mentioned in Rizal's previous novel Noli Me Tangere.

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Filibustero

and Gomburza
• The Filibusterismo in the novel's title is derive
d from the simpler term filibustero, Rizal defin
ed the word (filibustero') to his friend Ferdina
nd Blumentritt who encountered but did not f
ully comprehend the word in the Noli. Rizal, t
hus, explained in a letter ("El Filibusterismo,"
2011)
• The word filibustera thus contextually means
subversive, dissident revolutionary. seditious
, insurrectionary and treasonous. Fittingly. Ri
zal dedicated the book to the memory of the
Gomburza, the three Filipino patriotic priest
s who were accused of being filibustero and,
thus, executed. In his dedication Rizal fearles
sly declared his conviction that the Spanish o
fficials treatment of the priests' case was unj
ust "as (their) complicity in the Cavite Mutin
y is not clearly proved."
Theme of fili
El Filibusterismo exposes the real picture o
f Filipino society at the hands of the Spanis
h authorities. Socio political issues mention
ed in the Noli are also dealt with in its sequ
el the abuses and hypocrisy of the member
s of the Spanish Catholic clergy, superstitio
ns disguising as religious faith.

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