Lecture Notes – October 23

Noli Me Tangere

Maria Clara
- Submissive
- Many were interested in her

Elias
- Doesn’t have a last name
- Does not live inside the plaza complex
- Outsider
o Elias and Ibarra tried fending off a crocodile together.
 Maria Clara fainted when Elias took of his shirt.
 Pretended to faint when Ibarra took of his shirt.
- Ibarra and Elias had utang na loob to Ibarra.

Pilosopo Tasyo

Leper
- Approached Maria Clara, and was embraced.
- Was cured by Basilio and got reintegrated into society.
o Was paid by the leper with a cross of Jesus Christ from Maria Clara.
o Basilio couldn’t cure Kapitan Tiago, the person who adopted him.

Padre Damaso
- Was almost killed by Crisostomo Ibarra.
o Padre Damaso was always insulting Ibarra, and he had enough.
o Ibarra wanted to slit his throat with a knife.
o Maria Clara intervened.

Ibarra
- Now excommunicated because of this.
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Elias
- Planning a revolution to overthrow the Spanish revolution.
- Group was defeated.
- They were sentenced to be executed.

Elias Backstory

Elias
- He brought Ibarra to Maria Clara for their last conversation.
- Ibarra told Maria Clara to find someone else and become happy.
- He and Ibarra tried to escape for a boat.
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At the End of the Novel

- Basilio gotten riches from another character after burning the body of Elias.
- Ibarra saw the body of Elias getting burned.
- Padre Damaso told and begged Maria Clara not to enter the convent.
- Maria Clara was planning to commit suicide due to Padre Salvi’s intention
towards her.