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At the center of "Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)" by Philippine national hero José Rizal is the conflict against Spanish colonialism. The Philippines, which is named after King Philip II of Spain, was ruled by the Spanish empire as a colony from 1565 until the Philippine Revolution ended this rule in 1898. For his part in the Philippine Revolution, José Rizal was tried and convicted for rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy. His sentence was to be...
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The novel centers on the Noli-El fili duology's main character Crisóstomo Ibarra, now returning for vengeance as "Simoun". The novel's dark theme departs dramatically from the previous novel's hopeful and romantic atmosphere, signifying Ibarra's resort to solving his country's issues through violent means, after his previous attempt in reforming the country's system made no effect and seemed impossible with the corrupt attitude of the Spaniards toward...
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Solo incorporados a la Corona española, debían apoyar con su sangre y con el esfuerzo de sus hijos las guerras y ambiciones conquistadoras del pueblo español, y en estas luchas, en esa terrible crisis de los pueblos cuando cambian de gobierno, leyes, De costumbres, costumbres, religión y creencias, Filipinas se despobló, se empobreció y atrasó, sorprendió en su metamorfosis, sin confiar más en su pasado, sin fe ni siquiera en su presente...
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Crisóstomo Ibarra, the mestizo son of the recently deceased Don Rafael Ibarra, is returning to San Diego in Laguna after seven years of study in Europe. Kapitán Tiago, a family friend, bids him to spend his first night in Manila where Tiago hosts a reunion party at his riverside home on Anloague Street. Crisóstomo obliges. At dinner he encounters old friends, Manila high society, and Padre Dámaso, San Diego's old curate at the time Ibarra left...
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Unwillingness to work when there is nothing in it for them is common to Filipinos and Americans, for Thomas Jefferson admitted that extravagance and indolence were the chief faults of his countrymen. Laborsaving machinery has made the fruits of Americans' labors in their land of abundance afford a luxury in living not elsewhere existing. But, the Filipino, in his rich and not over-populated home, shutting out, as we do, oriental cheap labor, may employ...
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In the latter part of October, Don Santiago de los Santos, popularly known as Captain Tiago, gave a dinner. Though, contrary to his custom, he had not announced it until the afternoon of the day on which it was to occur, the dinner became at once the absorbing topic of conversation in Binondo, in the other suburbs of Manila, and even in the walled city. Captain Tiago was generally considered a most liberal man, and his house, like his country, shut...
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It was indeed a talent, an energy, a force that this young student of the Ateneo Municipal who, at thirteen, barely out of his native pueblo of Calamba, composed a melodrama in verse, Junto al Pasig, which applauded the elegant society of Manila; that this adolescent who, with an ode, To the Philippine Youth, first won the first prize in the competition of the "Liceo Artistico-Literario", and still triumphed in a literary tournament organized on the...
