El Filibusterismo

El Filibusterismo
EL FILIBUSTERISMO • The book was completed on March 29,1891 in

•It is the second novel written by Rizal as the Biarritz, France
sequel to Noli Me Tangere • Jose Alejandrino, Rizal’s roomate in Belgium
• The Reign of Greed/The Filibustering related that he was the one who canvassed the
• 38 chapters printing press for El Fili. For his assistance, Rizal
•Rizal dedicated the novel to the 3 martyred gave him the El Fili’s corrected proofs and the
priests (GomBurZa) of the Cavite Mutiny pen used in doing the corrections.
THE TITLE •Rizal financed El Fili’s printing by pawning his
• The Filibusterismo in the novel’s title is derived properties. The printing had to be suspended for
from the simpler term filibustero. Rizal explained lack of funds
in a letter to Blumentritt: •Valentin Ventura offered financial help to Rizal
➢ “The word filibustero is little known in the for the printing of the El Fili.
Philippines I heard it for the first time in • Even with financial help, Rizal decided to
1872 when the tragic executions [of the shorten the novel, erasing 47 whole pages from
Gomburza took place I still remember the the 279- page manuscript to save expenses.
panic that this word created Our father (Ocampo)
forbade us to utter it, as well as the words •September 18, 1891– the novel was published.
Cavite, Burgos (one of the executed •Rizal gave the original manuscript to Ventura.
priests), etc. . .” • The novel was published as a series in El
➢ The Manila newspapers and the Nuevo Regimen– a liberal Madrid newspaper.
Spaniards apply this word to one whom • The original manuscript of the El Fili is now
they want to make a revolutionary preserved in the Filipiniana division of the
suspect. The Filipinos belonging to the Bureau of Public Libraries.
educated class fear the reach of the word. INSCRIPTION
It means a dangerous patriot who will • it can be easily supposed that a rebel
soon be hanged or, well, a presumptuous (filibuster has secretly bewitched the
man. league of friar-zealots and retrogrades so
•The word filibustero thus contextually means that, unwittingly following his
subversive, dissident, revolutionary, incitements, they should favour and
seditious, insurrectionary, and treasonous forment that policy which pursues one
DEDICATION sole end; to spread ideas of rebellion
•Rizal dedicated the book to the memory of throughout the length and breadth of the
Gomez, Burgos, and Zamora ( the three land, and to convince every Filipino that
Filipino patriotic priests accused of being there is no salvation except through
filibustero and thus executed. separation from the Mother Country. -
➢ “To the memory of the priests, Don Ferdinand Blumentritt
Mariano Gomez 85 years old), Don Jose OBJECTIVES
Burgos 30 years old), and Don Jacinto • To defend the Filipino people from foreign
Zamora 35 years old). Executed in the accusations of foolishness and lack of
Bagumbayan Field on the 28th of knowledge
February 1872. I have the right to • To show how the Filipino people live during
dedicate my work to you as victims of the the Spanish colonial period and the cries and
evil which I undertake to combat. . .” woes of their countrymen against abusive
HISTORY OF THE NOVEL officials.
•It took him 3 years to write the 2nd novel • To discuss what religion and belief can do to
•He started writing it in October 1887 while he everyday lives
was in Calamba • To expose the cruelties, graft, and corruption
•In London, he revised the plot and some of the false government and honestly show the
chapters.He continued to work on his wrongdoings of Filipinos that led to their
manuscript in Paris. failure.
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THEMES
• It exposes the real picture of Filipino society at
the hands of the Spanish authorities.
• Socio-political issues mentioned in the Noli are
also dealt with
➢ Abuses and hypocrisy of the members of
the Spanish Catholic clergy
➢ Superstitions disguising as religious faith
➢ Need to reform the educational system
➢ The exploitation and corruption of
government officials
➢ Pretenses of some social climbing
Filipinos and Spaniards.
• What makes El Fili essentially different from
its prequel is that it offers various means of
attaining social reform and somewhat hinted at
what the author believed was ideal.
• The main character’s persistence to push
through with the rebellion seems to suggest
that independence is attainable through
revolution.
• However, the closing chapters rather insinuate
that freedom must be attained without
bloodshed as the story ends with the failure of
Simoun’s planned uprising
SUMMARY
The book narrates the return of the protagonist
of Noli Me Tangere Crisostomo Ibarra, under the
disguise of the wealthy jeweler Simoun
Disillusioned by the abuses of the Spanish,
Ibarra abandons his pacifist belief in order to
return to the Philippines and start a violent
revolution. Noli Me Tangere’s Basilio, now a
young man and skilled medical student, is
recruited by Ibarra to aid him in detonating a
bomb at a social gathering, signaling the
beginning of the revolution.
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