It

LEARNING OUTCOMES
•Compare and contrast the
characters, plot, and the
theme of the Noli and the El Fili
•Value the role of the youth in
the development of future of
society
Review
1. The mother of Basilio and
Crispín, who went insane after
losing her sons.
SISA
Review
2. What was the meaning of the
title “Noli Me Tangere” in
Filipino?
Huwag Mo
akong
Review
3. He was the main protagonist
of Noli Me Tangere, a
representation of Rizal himself.
Crisostomo
Ibarra
Review
4. These are the two relevant
concepts of the novel Noli Me
Tangere.
Social
Awakening
Review
5. He was an outlaw and vagabond
revolutionary who resents the power the
Catholic church and Spanish government
have over the Philippines.
Elias
 “Ang bayang inaalipin ay
natututong magkunwari; ang hindi
ipinakilala sa katotohanan ay
nagiging sinungaling; ang
It
paghahari-harian ay lumilikha ng
alipin.”
– Isagani (kab.27)
El Filibusterismo
(The Reign of Greed)
(Ang Paghahari ng Kasakiman)

• Filibusterismo means “The

Subversive or Subversion”
• The second novel written by
Jose Rizal, sequel to Noli Me
Tangere and is written in
Spanish.
• It consists of 39 chapters
To whom do Rizal
dedicated this novel?
• The novel is dedicated
to the three martyr
priests of Cavite
Mutiny: Padre Jose
Burgos, Padre Mariano
Gomez, and Jacinto
Zamora.
• Rizal took 3 years to write his second novel
• He started writing it in 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.
• 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 Jose Basa and other for Sixto
Lopez
• He gratefully donated the original
manuscript and an autographed
• 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 Filipiniana Division of the
Bureau of Public libraries in
• The PH government bought
the original manuscript from
Valentin Ventura for
Php10,000.00
• It consists of 279 pages of
long sheets paper.
• FUN FACT: Someone stole it
OBJECTIVES

• To defend Filipino people from foreign

accusations of foolishness and lack of
knowledge
• To show how the Filipino people live during
Spanish colonial period and the cries and
woes of his countrymen against abusive
officials
OBJECTIVES

• To discuss what religion and belief can

really do to everyday lives
• To expose the cruelties, graft and
corruption of the false government and
honestly show the wrong doings of Filipinos
that led to further failure.
CHARACTERS

Simoun
Crisóstomo Ibarra
disguised as a wealthy
jeweler, bent on starting
a revolution.
CHARACTERS

Basilio
• Sisa's son, now an
aspiring doctor
• Graduated from Ateneo
Municipal, finishing his
studies in UST
• Boyfriend of Juli
CHARACTERS

Juli
• Juliana de Dios, the
girlfriend of Basilio
• The youngest daughter
of Kabesang Tales
CHARACTERS

Kabesang Tales
• Telesforo Juan de Dios, a
former cabeza de
barangay (barangay head)
who resurfaced as the
feared Luzón bandit
Matanglawin (Tagalog for
"Hawkeye)
CHARACTERS

Tandang Selo
•Father of Kabesang
Tales.
•He raised the sick and
young Basilio after his
mother Sisa had died
 CHARACTERS

Isagani
• The best friend of Basilio, he is a
poor law student and poet.
• portrayed as emotional and
reactive;
• He has little fear of authority and
speaks openly of his patriotic
ideals
• Paulita Gómez' boyfriend before
being dumped for fellow student
CHARACTERS

Paulita Gomez
• the girlfriend of Isagani and
the niece of Doña Victorina
• In the end, she and Juanito
Peláez are wed, and she
dumps Isagani, believing
that she will have no future
if she marries him
CHARACTERS

Doña Victorina
• A Filipina woman married to
Don Tiburcio (a quack doctor).
Above all else, Doña Victorina
cares about her image as a
beautiful and admired socialite
• the old India who passes
herself off as a Peninsular
CHARACTERS

Ben Zayb
•Abraham Ibañez is his
real name.
•He is a journalist who
thinks he is the "only"
one thinking in the
Philippines
CHARACTERS

Placido Penitente
•a student of the
University of Santo
Tomas who is always
miserable, and
therefore controls his
temper
SUMMARY

• Thirteen years after leaving the Philippines,

Crisostomo Ibarra returns as Simoun, a rich
jeweler sporting a beard and blue-tinted
glasses, and a confidant of the Captain-
General.
• Abandoning his idealism, he becomes a
cynical saboteur, seeking revenge against
the Spanish Philippine system responsible for
his misfortunes by plotting a revolution.
• Simoun insinuates himself
into Manila high society
and influences every
decision of the Captain-
General to mismanage the
country’s affairs so that a
revolution will break out.
• This time, he does not
attempt to fight the
authorities through legal
means, but through
violent revolution using
Simoun has reasons for
instigating a revolution:
• First is to rescue María
Clara from the convent
and;
• second, to get rid of ills
and evils of Philippine
• His true identity is discovered
by a now grown-up Basilio
while visiting the grave of his
mother, Sisa, as Simoun was
digging near the grave site for
his buried treasures.
• Simoun spares Basilio’s life and
asks him to join in his planned
revolution against the
government
• Basilio declines the offer as he
still hopes that the country’s
Simoun Meets Basilio
• Basilio heeded the advice of the dying
boatman, Elías, and traveled to Manila to
study.
• He was taken in by Capitan Tiago as a capista
(servant-scholar)
• He studied in Letran, then transferred to
Ateneo Municipal on the advice of Capitan
Tiago, where he finished his AB.
• When the story begins, he is about to finish
his medical studies in UST.
• Kabesang Tales, once a farmer
owning a prosperous sugarcane
plantation and a cabeza de
barangay (barangay head), he was
forced to give everything to the
greedy and unscrupulous Spanish
friars.
• His son, Tano, who became a civil
guard was captured by bandits;
• his daughter Hulî had to work as a
maid to get enough ransom money
for his freedom;
• and his father, Tandang Selo,
• To further strengthen the revolution,
Simoun has Quiroga, a Chinese man
hoping to be appointed consul to the
Philippines, smuggle weapons into the
country using Quiroga’s bazaar as a
front.
• He, however, abruptly aborts the attack
when he learns from Basilio that María
Clara had died earlier that day in the
convent.
• Basilio even if he was not there, was
arrested because of the agitation and
disturbance of peace after the mock
celebration of the students.
• Juli tries to ask Father Camorra’s help upon
the advice of an elder woman. Instead of
helping Julî, however, the priest tries to
rape her as he has long-hidden desires for
Julî. Julî, rather than submit to the will of
the friar, jumps over the balcony to her
death.
• Basilio is soon released with the help of
Simoun. Now a changed man, and after
hearing about Julî's suicide, finally joins
Simoun’s revolution.
• Simoun then tells Basilio his plan at the
wedding of Paulita Gómez and Juanito.
• His plan was to conceal an explosive inside
a pomegranate-styled Kerosene lamp that
Simoun will give to the newlyweds as a gift
during the wedding reception.
• According to Simoun, the
lamp will stay lighted for only
20 minutes before it flickers;
if someone attempts to turn
the wick, it will explode and
kill everyone—important
members of civil society and
the Church hierarchy—inside
the house.
• Basilio has a change of heart and
attempts to warn Isagani, his friend and
the former boyfriend of Paulita.
• Simoun leaves the reception early as
planned and leaves a note behind: “
Mene Thecel Phares. ” —Juan
Crisostomo Ibarra
• Initially thinking that it was simply a
bad joke, Father Salví recognizes the
handwriting and confirms that it was
indeed Ibarra’s.
• As people begin to panic, the
lamp flickers. Father Irene tries to
turn the wick up when Isagani,
due to his undying love for
Paulita, bursts in the room and
throws the lamp into the river,
sabotaging Simoun's plans.
• He later regrets his impulsive
action because he had
contradicted his own belief that
he loved his nation more than
• Simoun, now unmasked as
the perpetrator of the
attempted arson and failed
revolution, becomes a
fugitive.
• He seeks shelter at the home
of Father Florentino, Isagani’s
uncle, and comes under the
care of doctor Tiburcio de
Espadaña, Doña Victorina's
• Simoun takes poison in order for
him not to be captured alive.
Before he dies, he reveals his
real identity to Florentino while
they exchange thoughts about
the failure of his revolution and
why God has forsaken him.
• Florentino opines that God did
not forsake him and that his
plans were not for the greater
good but for personal gain.
Of What Use is Independence, If the
Slaves of Today Become the Tyrants of
Tomorrow?
• This quote by Padre Florentino means that if
we replaced Spanish tyranny with Filipino
tyranny, nothing will change
• This is exactly what has happened to the
Philippines
• Colonizers replaced by trapos
EL FILIBUSTERISMO

• a political novel
• HOW NOT TO DO A REVOLUTION!
• it is a “work of the head”—a book of the
thought
• it contains bitterness, hatred, pain, violence,
and sorrow
• it contains 39 chapters
LESSONS TO PONDER

• Revenge is not always the way to quench the pain

and hatred.
• Wise decision-making
• Good for everyone, not for personal gain
• Decisiveness
• Sacrifice
• Acceptance of reality
IN DEPTH ANALYSIS:

1. If you are to be given a second chance in life, would you make a

comeback as different person and seek revenge from those who
wronged you? Or will you recreate yourself as an entirely different
person?
2. If you are Basilio, would you also do the same as what he did?
Revealing the entire plan of Simoun to Izagani just to save your
best friend or you will let him to face his tragic death just to
continue the revolution?
3. What is the entire representation of lamp as it use it the novel?
4. Why do you think Rizal wrote it Simoun’s plan as a failure?
4. If you are to revise the ending of the story, what would it be?
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