Noli Me

Tangere
Prepared by: Lorica Mae Layug
Mary Jane Reyes
Noli Me Tangere
 First novel of Jose Rizal.
 26 years old
 Originally written in Spanish
 First published in Berlin,
Germany in 1887.
Noli Me Tangere
 “Noli Me Tangere” latin
 “Touch me Not” English
 “Huwag mo akong Salingin” Tagalog
 Di Masalang
 “Social Cancer” Ferdinand Blementritt
 John 20:17
“Touch me not; for I am not yet
ascended to my Father.”
Noli Me Tangere
 Uncle Tom’s Cabin -by Le Juif Errant
 English Novel
 Harriet Beecher Stowe
 Struggle of Black and White

 Le Juif Errant
 The Wandering Jew
 French Novel
 Eugene Sue
Noli Me Tangere
 Pedro Paterno (January 2, 1884)
 Proposed the book to be written as a group
 Decided to draft the novel alone

 Madrid-Paris- Germany
 Maximo Viola
 Rizal was living in poverty
 300.00 for 2000 copies
 Deleted chapter
Objectives:
 To defend Filipino people from foreign accusations of
foolishness and lack of knowledge;
 To show how the Filipino people lives during Spanish colonial
period and the cries and woes of his countrymen against
abusive officials;
 To discuss what religion and belief can really do to everyday
lives; and
 To expose the cruelties, graft, and corruption of the false
government at honestly show the wrongdoings of Filipinos that
led to further failure.
Characters of Noli
Crisostomo Ibarra Elias
 “Juan Crisostomo Ibarra y Magsalin  Ibarra’s friend
 The main and most important character  A master boater
 Studied in Europe (7 years)  A fugitive
 The love interest of Maria Clara Padre Damaso
Maria Clara  Damaso Verdolagas
 Maria Clara de los Santos Y Alba  Franciscan Friar in San Diego
 Ibarra’s sweetheart  Maria Clara’s biological father
 Legitimate daughter of Father Damaso Kapitan Tiago
 Don Santiago de los Santos
 The known father of Maria Clara but not
the real one
Characters of Noli
Narcissa Don Rafael Ibarra
 Mother of Crispin and Basilio  Father of Crisostomo Ibarra
 Became insane

Crispin
 Sisa’s 7 years old son
 Altar boy in their church
 Accused of stealing money

Basilio
 Sisa’s 10 year old son
Noli Me
Tangere
SUMMARY
Summary of Noli Me Tangere
● Having completed his studies in Europe, Juan Crisostomo Ibarra came back to the
Philippines after a 7-year absence. In his honor, Captain Tiago threw a get-together party,
which was attended by friars and other prominent figures. In an unfortunate incident,
former curate Father Damaso belittled and slandered Ibarra. But Ibarra brushed off the
insult and took no offense.

● Ibarra went to see Maria Clara, his love interest, a beautiful daughter of Captain. Their
long-standing love was clearly manifested in this meeting, and Maria Clara cannot help but
reread the letters her sweetheart had written to her before he went to Europe. Before Ibarra
left for San Diego, Lieutenant Guevarra, a Guardia Civil, revealed to him the incidents
preceding the death of his father, Don Rafael Ibarra, a rich haciendero of the town.
Summary of Noli Me Tangere
● According to the Lieutenant, Don Rafael was unjustly accused of being a heretic and filibuster.
Father Damaso's animosity against Ibarra's father was aggravated by another incident when Don
Rafael helped out on a fight between a tax collector and a student fighting, and the former's death
was blamed on him, although it was not deliberate, Suddenly, all of those who thought ill of him
surfaced with additional complaints.
● He was imprisoned, and just when the matter was almost settled, he got sick and died in jail. Still
not content with what he had done, Father Damaso arranged for Don Rafael's corpse to be dug up
and transferred from the Catholic cemetery to the Chinese cemetery, because he thought it
inappropriate to allow a heretic such as Don Rafael to have a Catholic burial ground.
Unfortunately, it was raining and because of the bothersome weight of the cadaver, the men in
charge of the burial decided to throw the corpse into lake.
Summary of Noli Me Tangere
● Revenge was not in Ibarra's plans; instead he carried thought his father's plan of putting up a school,
since he believed that education would pave the way to his country's progress. During the inauguration
of the school, Ibarra would have been killed in a sabotage had Elias a mysterious man who had warned
Ibarra earlier of a plot to - assassinate him. Instead, the hired killer met an unfortunate incident and
died. The sequence of events proved to be too traumatic for Maria Clara who got seriously ill but was
luckily cured by the medicine Ibarra sent to her.

● After the inauguration, Ibarra hosted a luncheon during which Father Damaso, uninvited and gate-
crashing the luncheon, again insulted him. Ibarra ignored the priest's insolence, but when the latter
slandered the memory of his dead father, he was no longer able to restrain himself at Father Damaso,
prepared to stab the latter for his imprudence. As a consequence, Father Damaso excommunicated
Ibarra. Father Damaso took this opportunity to persuade the already-hesitant father of Maria Clara to
forbid his daughter from marrying Ibarra. The friar wished to marry a Peninsular named Linares who
has arrived from Spain.
Summary of Noli Me Tangere
● With the help of Captain-General, Ibarra's excommunication was nullified and the Archbishop decided to
accept him as a member of the Church once again. But, as fate would have it, some incident of which
Ibarra had known nothing about was blamed on him, and he was wrongly arrested and imprisoned. But
the accusation against him was overruled because during the litigation that followed, nobody could testify
that he was indeed involved. Unfortunately, his letter to Maria Clara somehow got into the hands of the
jury and was manipulated such that it then became evidence against him.
● Meanwhile, in Captain Tiago's residence, a party was being held to announce the upcoming wedding of
Maria Clara and Linares. Ibarra, with the help of Elias, took this opportunity and escaped from prison.
But before leaving, Ibarra talked to Maria Clara and accused her for betraying him, thinking that she gave
the letter to wrote her to the jury. Maria Clara explained to Ibarra that she will never conspire against him
but that she was forced to surrender Ibarra's letter to her in exchange for the letters written by her mother
even before she, Maria Clara, was born. The child and that she, Maria Clara, was therefore not the
daughter of Captain Tiago, but of Father Damaso.
Summary of Noli Me Tangererces
● Afterwards, Ibarra and Elias bounded a boat and left the palace. Elias instructed Ibarra to lie down and
the former covered the latter with grass to conceal the latter's presence. As luck would have it, they
were spotted by their enemies. Elias thought he could outsmart them and jumped into the water. The
guards rain shots on the person in the water, all the while not knowing that they were aiming at the
wrong man.

● Maria Clara, thinking that Ibarra has been killed in the shooting incident, was greatly overcome with
grief. Robbed of hope and severe disillusion, she asked Father Damaso to confine her into a nunnery.
Father Damaso reluctantly agreed when Maria Clara threatened to take her own life, demanding, "the
nunnery or death!" Unbeknown to her, Ibarra is still alive and able to escape. It was Elias who had taken
the shots. It was Christmas Eve when Elias woke up in the forest, gravely wounded and barely alive. It
was in the forest that Elias found Basilio and his lifeless mother, Sisa.