Republic of the Philippines

City of Taguig
Km.14 East Service Road, South Super Highway, Taguig City

Subject:
LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL
Name:
BINASING BAIAMOR
Course / Year and Section:
BET-DMT-2A-T
Professor:
MARIA GENA CRUZ
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City of Taguig
Km.14 East Service Road, South Super Highway, Taguig City

NOLI ME TANGERE & EL FILIBUSTERISMO SUMMARY

“NOLI ME TANGERE”

Noli Me Tangere, by Dr. Jose Rizal, starts off at the house of the wealthy man Capitan Tiago. Here
we find Padre Damaso speaking ill-y of Filipinos. A few moments later, the story‟s protagonist makes
his first appearance. He is Crisostomo Ibarra, a rich young man who has just returned from Europe
after 7 years of studying there. He is the son of the late Don Rafael Ibarra, whose death is later
revealed to be because of him protecting a young Filipino boy from a Spanish tax collector. Padre
Damaso, being an adversary of Don Ibarra, starts to both indirectly and directly insult Crisostomo.
Ibarra, instead of retorting, excuses himself and says that he has business matters to attend to. In the
following days, Ibarra talks to his sweetheart Maria Clara–daughter of Capitan Tiago, and tries to visit
his father‟s grave. And to Ibarra‟s shock, the place where his father‟s body should be seems to have
been recently dug up.

He talks to a gravedigger to find out that a fat friar asked that the body be transferred to a Chinese
cemetery. Who could this friar be? Yes, you‟ve got it right, Padre Damaso. But only to add insult to
the injury, Ibarra finds out the corpse was thrown in to the lake because there was a storm on the
supposed day of transfer. On the other hand, a whole other story was taking place the story of Sisa,
Basilio and Crispin. The two were accused of being thieves. Basilio was locked up in the church by
the Sacristan-Mayor for his “crimes”. Basilio escapes from the church and runs away. Sisa, not
knowing this, goes to church to get him only to find out that he is gone. She runs home to be arrested
and Crispin nowhere to be found. After being released from jail, she tries to find her children only to
find a bloody garment of Basilio. Due to the horrifying sight, she loses her mind. Going back to Senor
Ibarra, he tried to put up a school wherein he was almost killed when during the laying of the
cornerstone.

It was a planned attempt. At a party, Padre Damaso insults Ibarra’s father who causes Crisostomo to
leap to his feet and pose a knife at the priest’s neck. He did not go on with act because of Maria
Clara’s persuasion. Due to the event, Ibarra was excommunicated. Because of this, he cannot be with
Maria Clara and she is set up with another man. Ibarra finds out about this and is deeply saddened.
Elias, Ibarra’s supporter/friend, breaks Ibarra out of jail, gets him on a banca, and they plan to go
abroad first. Before this, Ibarra talks to Maria Clara to find that she do not want to marry her new
suitor and that her true father is not Capitan Tiago but Padre Damaso. He leaves her with a hug.
While rowing in the river, Ibarra and Elias realize that a few Spaniards saw them from a far. Elias tells
Ibarra to hide under the, zacate and Elias jumps off the banca, pretending to be Ibarra, and gets shot.
On the other side of the river, Basilio is grieving the death of his mother, Elias comes to him, shot and
bloody, and tells him that he is going to die and that the young Basilio should burn the bodies. He tells
the boy that there is gold under the land that they are standing on. Young Basilio does so. Ibarra is
left alone to escape.
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City of Taguig
Km.14 East Service Road, South Super Highway, Taguig City

“EL FILIBUSTERISMO”

Crisostomo Ibarra is back and as Simoun. During the period in between the story line of Noli Me Tangere
and El Filibusterismo which is 13 years, Ibarra left the Philippines and became a wealthy jeweler. He
came back to the Philippines as Senor Simoun, disguised with a beard. He seems to have long
abandoned his once vision of ending the despotism of Spain with words and peace. He becomes hungry
for vengeance for all the misfortune our country has suffered under the tyranny of the Spaniards. And
near the end of the novel, when he discovers that his lover, Maria Clara, died in the convent, he becomes
all the more furious. Simoun is a confidant of the Captain-General. He encourages the government to
make bad decisions and to abuse their power so that it would spark a revolution among the masses.

Basilio, now all grown up, is at first reluctant to join in on Simoun’s idea but ends up being part of the
plan. Simoun started planning uprisings and stashed guns in the shop of an ally. At the wedding
reception of newlyweds (the bride being the ex-girlfriend of one of the friends of Basillo—Isagani),
Simoun tells Basilio that his plan was to conceal an explosive which contains nitroglycerin inside a
pomegranate-styled Kerosene lamp that Simoun will give to the newlyweds as a gift during the wedding
reception. The reception will take place at the former home of the late Captain Tiago, which was now
filled with explosives planted by Simoun. According to Simoun, the lamp will stay lighted for only 20
minutes before it flickers; if someone attempts to turn the wick, it will explode and kill
everyone—important members of civil society and the Church hierarchy—inside the house. Simoun
leaves the reception early and leaves a note with the words: “Mene Thecel Phares” which means “the
future is predetermined” and is generally implied that a bad event is going to happen.

Simoun signed it with his real name “Juan Crisostomo Ibarra”. The people at the reception were shocked
because Ibarra is supposedly dead. One of the priests who knew Ibarra before the ending of Noli Me
Tangere confirmed to the people that it was the writing of Ibarra. The lamp started to dim… Outside the
house, Basilio was about to walk away because he knew the lamp was going to explode anytime soon
when he saw Isagani, the still heart-broken ex-boyfriend of the bride whose reception was still going on
in the house of Capitan Tiago. Isagani said that he just wanted to congratulate the newly-weds. Basilio
who then feared for the safety of his friend told him about the plan of Simoun. Isagani ran to the house.

A priest was about to fix the lamp but once Isagani got in, he found the lamp and threw it out the window
into the river outside the residence. Since the guards were chasing Isagani, he himself jumped out of the
window into the river as well. There was an uprising planned by Simoun during the time of the reception.
The band got caught and confessed that Simoun lead them. Ibarra was now wanted both as himself and
as Simoun. Days passed and a good priest found Simoun walking along the shore, wounded and weak.
The noble priest tended to Simoun while the latter explained that he is Ibarra and that he was greatly
saddened and angry due to the failure of the revolution and that he was questioning God as to why he
was the one who is suffering and not the ones who have forsaken the people of the Philippines.

The priest explains that all punishments will come in due time. Ibarra died as he weakly held the hand of
the priest. The latter blessed the former and threw away all the remaining jewels of Ibarra in the hopes
that they may always be used for good.
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City of Taguig
Km.14 East Service Road, South Super Highway, Taguig City

Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo are the two marked novels of our national
hero, Dr. Jose Rizal which are similar and different in some ways. The two novels
are similar primarily in their author, Rizal. Another, in a way that they both talk about
how Spaniards abused the Filipinos, the abuse of the church of their power and the
discrimination on Filipinos. Both Noli and El Fili shows strong anti-Clerical and even
anti-Catholic color. They convey one story because the latter is published in sequel
or continuation. However, they are different in many cases. Firstly Noli Metangere,
Latin title meaning “touch me not” refers to the letter of John 20:17 in King James
version of the Bible as Mary Magdalene tried to touch the newly risen Jesus, He said
“Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father”. Meanwhile, El filibusterismo
is Spanish title which is known in english as The Reign of Greed. Noli is a love story
or a romantic novel, dedicated to our motherland while El fili is a political novel
associated with revenge and anger and is dedicated to GOMBURZA. The first is
more on action and motion, the latter is thoughtful, discursive and dialectal. Noli
showed a sofspoken, patient, compassionate and idealistic Crisostomo Ibarra while
El Fili featured a different Ibarra who portrayed the angry and vengeful side of him
and disguised himself as the wealthy jeweller named Simoun.Noli is written in the
idea that would expose the ills of Philippine society after Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In general Noli is more on the reformist side of Rizal while El Fili
is on his revolutionist.

REFERENCE

http://www.slideshare.net/GabbieAllTheWay7
http://www.studymode.com/course-notes/Comparison-Of-Noli-Metangere-And-El-15
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