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Rizal Lesson III and IV
Rizal Lesson III and IV
PARA SATIN?
RIZAL: AS SYMBOL OR AS
HISTORICAL FIGURE
LESSON III
How can we validate
the reliability of
someone’s
interpretation?
“The readers of Rizal
are said to be more
powerful than Rizal
himself.’
❖ He lived and died in the past, but
readers make him exist.
❖ Readers can actually manipulate his
image depending on a specific
agenda.
❖ The proliferation of ideas had indeed
generated a “kanya-kanyang Rizal.”
▪ This lesson will focus on the symbolic Rizal
which in reality is the kind of Rizal we see in
our daily lives. It is expected in the end that
the “Millennials” would generate their own
version of a symbolic Rizal.
RIZAL’S LAST WILL
PERIOD INTERPRETATION/MANIPULATION
KATIPUNAN Rizal the honorary president of the
secret society.
AMERICAN PERIOD Rizal as Hero
1. Not Militant 2. No qualms on
American Imperialism 3. Died
Modern Different literary lenses
a. Marxism (His Heroism)
b. Feminism or Queer Literary Theory
(Bakla ba si Rizal?)
c. Psychological (Abnormal ba si
Rizal?)
▪ So it was evident then that “two Rizals”
appeared in the course of our history.
RIZAL AS HISTORICAL FIGURE