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    This document summarizes the symbols found in Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and what they represent. The main symbols are: 1. A cross represents Catholic dominance and Filipino sufferings. 2. Pomelo blossoms and laurel leaves symbolize honor and fidelity. 3. A burning torch signifies awakening consciousness and enlightenment. 4. Sunflowers, bamboo stalks, and a signature represent new beginnings, resilience, and witnessing the abuses of Rizal's time.

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    Barnedo NOLIMETANGERE

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    This document summarizes the symbols found in Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and what they represent. The main symbols are: 1. A cross represents Catholic dominance and Filipino sufferings. 2. Pomelo blossoms and laurel leaves symbolize honor and fidelity. 3. A burning torch signifies awakening consciousness and enlightenment. 4. Sunflowers, bamboo stalks, and a signature represent new beginnings, resilience, and witnessing the abuses of Rizal's time.

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    This document summarizes the symbols found in Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and what they represent. The main symbols are: 1. A cross represents Catholic dominance and Filipino sufferings. 2. Pomelo blossoms and laurel leaves symbolize honor and fidelity. 3. A burning torch signifies awakening consciousness and enlightenment. 4. Sunflowers, bamboo stalks, and a signature represent new beginnings, resilience, and witnessing the abuses of Rizal's time.

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    This document summarizes the symbols found in Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and what they represent. The main symbols are: 1. A cross represents Catholic dominance and Filipino sufferings. 2. Pomelo blossoms and laurel leaves symbolize honor and fidelity. 3. A burning torch signifies awakening consciousness and enlightenment. 4. Sunflowers, bamboo stalks, and a signature represent new beginnings, resilience, and witnessing the abuses of Rizal's time.

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    Cross: Sufferings

    Pomelo Blossoms and Laurel Leaves: Honor and Fidelity


    Silhouette of a Filipina: Maria Clara
    Burning Torch: Rage and Passion
    Sunflowers: Enlightenment especially the youth
    Bamboo stalks that were cut down but grew back: Resilience
    A man in a cassock with hairy feet: Priests using religion in a dirty way
    Chains: Slavery
    Whip: Cruelty
    Helmet of Guardia Civil: Arrogance of those in authority

    Upper Triangle
    This represents Rizal's past life.
    Lower Triangle
    This represents Rizal's currents situations.

    Silhouette of a Filipina
    - believed to be Maria Clara or as the "Inang Bayan" to whom Rizal dictates the novel

    Cross/Crucifix
    - represents the Catholic faith as it rises above Inang Bayan and Filipinos (shows
    dominance)
    - it also symbolizes sufferings and death

    Pomelo Blossoms & Laurel Leaves


    - they represent faith, honor and fidelity, which are the values Rizal aspires to be embodied
    by Filipinos
    - pomelos are used to scent their air commonly during prayers and cleansing rituals
    - laurel leaves are used as crowns during Greek Olympics for honoring the best
    Burning Torch
    - refers to the Olympic torch
    - pertains to the awakening of Filipino consciousness
    - it also sheds light to the text of the manuscript

    Sunflower
    - it symbolizes a new beginning
    - it is compared to the happiness of which appears to be always bowing down

    Feet
    - it symbolizes the power of the friars
    - it is placed on the base of the triangle (foundation) because without friars, the Filipinos
    cannot stand on their own

    Shoes
    - it represents wealth
    - it is also the footprints left by friars in teaching Catholicism

    Hairy Legs
    - it symbolizes the Legend of the Wolf
    - the wolf shape shifts just like how friars hide their true nature and character

    Helmet of a Guardia Civil


    - it represents the arrogance of those in authority

    Whip
    - it represents the abuses and cruelties done by the Spaniards and friars as depicted in the
    novel

    Flogs (Suplina)
    - it is used for self-flagellation
    - just like the whip, this also symbolizes the cruelties of the Guardia Civil
    Note: self-flagellation: the action of flogging oneself, especially as a form of religious
    discipline.
    Flogging: a punishment in which the victim is hit repeatedly with a whip or stick.

    Chain
    - it symbolizes slavery and imprisonment

    Rizal's Signature
    - it shows that Rizal experienced and witnessed the ills and abuses that happened during
    his time

    Bamboo Stalks
    - it represents Filipino resiliency
    - despite the sufferings, Filipinos can still stand tall and firm
    Note: resilience:the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

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