THE

EL FILIBUSTERISMO
 El Filibusterimo

• El Filibusterismo the French form "filibuster" is derived from

the English word "flyboat" or the Dutch word "Flieboat".
• An English word “ freebooter” from which the German
“friebeuter”
 El Filibusterismo
a “filibustero” is:
• Someone who does not raise his hat to the Spaniards
• Someone who only greets the friars instead of kissing his hands
or habits
• Someone who offers resistance to being addressed with the
familiar “tu” by the best Spaniards
• Someone who subscribes to a periodical from Spain or another
European country
• Someone who reads books other than miracle stories and
biographies of Saints
 El Filibusterismo
• Rizal dedicated the new book to the
GOMBURZA
• El Filibusterismo The french form "filibuster" is derived from the
English word "flyboat" or the Dutch word "Flieboat".
• Dedicated the new book to the GOMBURZA "Evolution or
Revolution" and the problem of whether to wait for justice from the
hands of the Spaniards or to take the law into one's own hands are
interspersed in the book.
• Essentially a call to revolution with many limitations.
• It created a stir, when for the first times a Spanish newspaper, the
liberal Nuevo Regimen (New Regime) reproduced the novel in daily
sequels in October 1891.
• The book starts with a tease at the people with whose tardiness to
respond to the progressive ideas Rizal is becoming impatient.
• No one suspects that Simoun, the affluent jeweler, is the
fugitive Ibarra.
• Simoun - Ibarra has another purpose: to take Maria
Clara away from the nunnery and to avenge the ruin of
his life.
• As before, Rizal uses with photographic accuracy the
materials of Philippines life that had passed under his
own observation.
• Some other characters of the first book reappear in
El Fili.
• One must remember that the Fili, as a novel, is
inferior to the Noli - perhaps because is was so
drastically shortened.
• Sometimes Rizal does not even bother to mask the
actual basis of his story, in the case of Cabesang
Tales.
 • Tales and his family have made a forest
clearing only to find, on the eve of their first
harvest, that the religious order which owns
lands in the neighboring town, is claiming
ownership of the fields.
• Still tales prospers and is named headman and
tax collector becoming Cabesang Tales.
• Compared with Noli, Fili was more profound politically
because it suggested a way out of the impasse in which the
intellectuals were finding themselves, asking for reforms
that would never be granted.

• Rizal in the Fili is no longer the loyal reformer.

• The thought of revolution in real life may have called up

too many as “bloody apparitions”; where it also suggested
the many unexpected events.

• Rizal surely remembered the two greatest uprisings in his

his generation’s memory.
What are we to conclude?
• In Rizal’s mind, the Filipinos of his generation were
not yet ready for revolution because they were not yet
ready for independence as they were still unworthy.
• However, Bonifacio would disagree.
• What Rizal wanted, “but in the present circumstances
we do not desire a separation from Spain;”

“Only intelligence can redeem us, in the material

and in the spiritual.”
 NATIONALISM
IN

EL FILIBUSTERISMO
 Rizal was a cultured man of ideas: a
scholar with versatile talents, an
intellectual humanist obsessed with the
fact that his people must be liberated
from the oppressive ignorance and
delivered into a conscious awareness of
unity and freedom means of education.
 None of Rizal's writings has had more
tremendous effect on the Filipino people than
his two novels that courageously criticized
Philippines life during the 19th century; both
express the theme of Philippine nationalism
in a most profound and dramatic manner to
arouse the latent spirit of a frustrated Filipino
people.
 To the Filipino reader who
understands the historical background
of the novels, Rizal traced the delicate
portrait of a people faced with social
problems and political enigmas. Many
of the predicaments presented have
contemporary relevance.
To understand Rizal’s purpose
in writing the novels, one has to
look at his dedication of the El
Filibusterismo, which reads thus:
JOSE RIZAL
• In Philippine Nationalism: External challenge
and response 1565-1946 points to the way in
which Fili lays out a nationalist response to
spain colonialism in three stages.
• For the time being it was appalled and alarms
at the rise of vocal Philippine discontent and
restlessness.
• The term "Filibusterism", or advocacy of
secession from spain was used by the spanish
government to nip any demand to reform in the
bud.
• It was a term of opprobrium applied by the
Spanish authorities to Philippine nationalists who
being accused of advocating separation from
Spain, were liable to torture and even execution.
• The word which gained wide currency in the
latter of the 19th century was immortalized in
El Filibusterismo, a novel by Jose Rizal, the
patriot-saint of the Philippines.
• The term Filibusterismo, as indeed the novel, was
not merely a poignant articulation of a subject
national anguished defiance.
EL
FILIBUSTERISMO
AND THE
REVOLUTION
• Rizal's 2nd novel, was considered to have influenced the
impending revolution together with the first novel, Noli Me
Tangere, despite his advocating for nonviolence in the first
masterpiece.
• It was through his writings that Rizal promoted nationalistic
ideas that influenced the Filipino people to stand against the
colonial abuses and discrimination and awakening the national
from a long deep slumber, highlighting the need for significant
reforms and an end to Spanish rule.
• He remains to be a symbol of heroic Inspiration, allowing for the
necessary revolution to feel the Filipino people from the bondage
of the colonizers.
• Although the inspiration of Philippine revolution
of 1896 seemingly connects with Rizal's Intraday
work, there was no hard evidence that connects
the novel to the revolution.
• Instead, the novel/s, serve as a tool of propaganda
making an uprising that was bound to happen
under the unstable conditions of the political
government in peninsular Spain and her colonies.
SUBMITTED BY:

• LADIO, LAIRE LYCA

• MANDANTES, CHINKY

• PAELDILAN, MICHELLE

• PASON, JHAMES ANDREW

• TELIN, KENNETH