Patricia Nicole Cruz 1BSA-ABM5

LWR-Module 12 ASSIGNMENT

Instruction: Explain the historical environment during the time the novel El Filibusterismo
was written and how the situations affect Rizal?

During the making of Rizal’s second novel, El Filibusterismo at Calamba, Rizal

faced a lot of problems with his environment, publication of his second novel, and with his
family. He finished writing the manuscript on March 29, 1891. By that time, Rizal is
financially unstable, His family were expelled in Calamba and their land was asserted by
the friars, the person he loved, Leonor Rivera was married with other man, His first novel
Noli me tangere received widespread repercussion, His friend who was a member of
propaganda movement, Jose Ma. Panganiban died. There is also a problem with his duel
between Antonio Luna and Retana and the disagreement between him and Marcelo H.
Del Pilar in Propaganda movement.

Rizal have his difficulty in printing El Filibusterismo due to lack of his savings with
him. To save up for the printing cost of his novel, Rizal went to Ghent. Fortunately, there
is one printing press who accepted to print the manuscript of El Filibusterismo and agreed
to be paid through an installment basis. Because of his shortfall, He asked Paciano for
financial help but, during those times the condition in the Philippines is also not good, so
his need was not met. He also seeks for help from Jose Basa and from Rodriguez Arias
and he got another 200 Pesos. Also, he pawed all of his jewelries. Because of Rizal’s
hardships he almost burns the manuscript of El Filibusterismo. Luckily, Valentin Ventura
went to him to give him the financial support he needed, therefore, the printing of the
manuscript continued.

On September 18,1891 the first copies of El Filibusterismo were released. Rizal

was felt delighted so he promptly sent the copies to Jose Ma. Basa and Sixto lopez in
Hong Kong. After that, Rizal decided to give the original copy of the manuscript and a
copy with his signature to Valentin in Paris, in return for his generosity. He also gave

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 Blumentritt, Mariano Ponce, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Pardo de Tavera, Antonio Luna and
Juan Luna, a copy of his novel. El Filibusterismo received extensive praises.

Despite of all the hardships he faced, Rizal stay still. His eagerness to fight
even more with those battles were became on fire. Of course, those situations were really
hard for him, but he chose to find ways to show to Filipinos his Love for his country. Not
like Noli me tangere whose message is focused to the Filipinos, El filibusterismo mainly
focuses on Rizal’s message to the Spaniards and Filipinos. He denounced the selfishness
of the Filipinos through the characters in El Filibusterismo. His experiences while doing
his second novel, was not easy. But Rizal didn’t forget to challenge the Filipinos,
especially the youths, to give an act for their nation. Rizal’s heart was still in the state of
helping for the development of the Philippines and he clearly says that we can’t achieve
freedom through doing revolution. And he wants us, Filipinos to be prepared before head
to govern ourselves and to have enough education and knowledge. He didn’t think only
for himself, but for the good of each one of us regardless of his situation.

Reference/s:
El Filibusterismo Reader’s Guide. (n.d.). Retrieved from Penguin Random House:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/302595/el-filibusterismo-by-jose-
rizal/9780143106395/readers-guide/

El Filibusterismo: The making of a revolution. (2013, September 18). Retrieved from

ffemagazine: http://ffemagazine.com/el-filibusterismo-the-making-of-a-revolution/

Mañebog, J. D. (2013, July 7). The El Filibusterismo. Retrieved from OurHappySchool:

https://ourhappyschool.com/journalism/el-filibusterismo

Solatorio, M. M. (2016, April 7). El Filibusterismo - Discussion . Retrieved from Youtube:

youtube.com/watch?v=VtP3sBIXODU&t=1613s

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