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COLLEGE DEPARTMENT

Rizal’s Life
and Works
Danielle Audrey Dayto Baldon
ACT 2A
 COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
ON OUR SOCIETY

Our Society during

Rizal’s time
 We were mistreated on our own
home country
 Human Rights in the Philippines
is not present (No equality before
the law)
 The monopoly of stimulus to trade
was enjoyed by the Manila galleon
in Acapulco. Manila is open to
foreign traders with almost no
limit
 We had a public education and
the church has always controlled
the curriculum
 Instability of colonial
administration
 Maladministration of justice
 Racial Discrimination
 Frailocracy
 Forced Labor

Our Society Now  Haciendas owned by Frias

 Guardia Civil
 We already have our own freedom
however, we are now facing the reality
that we are still somehow being
mistreated but this time, by own kinds.
Our fellow Filipinos are taking
advantage of their privileges
 Similarities
 The country was full of corrupt
individuals and as of this very moment,
it is still one of the biggest enemy of our
society
 Colonial Mentality
 THINGS THAT RIZAL HAD OBSERVED
WHEN HE WAS IN EUROPE

• He noticed the corruption and inhuman treatment that they were

doing in the country and to the Filipino citizens. Rizal was deemed
as a propagandist by the Spaniards for writing novels that were
exposing

• Limited higher education in the colony was entirely under

clerical direction

• Spain is largely dominated by the Church's influence in

government. In other parts of Europe, liberal ideas have led the
path towards the separation of Church and State, albeit in various
forms.

• His stay in that continent was no bed of roses; the

cost of living was high and his own family, being in turmoil
over land disputes, had difficulty sending him money. Rizal
was not only in Europe to write letters to foreign friends
and attend parties; he was there to study and, eventually,
campaign for reforms. His stay exposed him to different
cultures and practices, good and bad. And through these he
was also able to formulate ideas as to what reforms are
needed in his home country, among them having a free press.

POLITICAL ASPIRATION OF RIZAL

Jose Rizal’s ideals were a product and composite of the teachings of what is known as the
philosophy of Enlightenment. That stage of philosophy marked the dawn of the eighteenth
century in Europe and continued to the 19th century. Another is friar injustices and Spanish
misrule. Jose Rizal’s writings transformed his stature from a writer and propagandist against
social and religious injustices of Spanish rule in the Philippines that made him into a national
hero.

Happenings in the Philippines during late 18th

century

1700 First admission of natives into the Religious Orders.

1718 The "Letter of Anathema" was publicly read for the last time.
1719 Friars in open riot incited the populace to rebellion.
1751 Sultan Muhamad Alimudin was imprisoned in Manila.
1754 Taal Volcano eruption destroyed Taal, Tanaúan, Sala, Lipa, etc.

First regular military organization.

Treaty with Sultan Muhamad Alimudin (March 3).

1755 Banishment of 2,070 Chinese from Manila.
1762-63 British occupation of Manila.
1762 Rebellion in Ilocos Province led by Diego de Silan.
1763 Sultan Muhamad Alimudin was restored to his throne by the British.
1768 Expulsion of the Jesuits ordered (R. Decree, 1768; Papal Brief, 1769).
1770 Expulsion of the Jesuits was effectuated.

Simon de Anda y Salazár became Gov.-General by appointment.

1781 Government Tobacco Monopoly was established.
1785 The Real Compañia de Filipinas was founded (March 10).
VIII. ASSESSMENT
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