THE CONTRIBUTION

OF THE NOLI AND

FILI TO THE
NATIONAL
CONSCIOUSNESS
•Rizal’s novels were works of
fiction. All the characters and
places are fictional.
•Both novels how ever have
powerful messages
•The novels warn of a worsening
and social decay in the Island.
•The novel had different effects
on those who had read them: to
the Spaniards , the books cause
range and anger among the
conservative elements such as
the friars and colonial- minded
Spaniards
•They saw the novel as
scandalous and malicious
attack on the state on the
church.
•For the Filipinos the novels
opened their eyes to reality
occurring in the country
•The books may have a
cathartic effect as both books
may change ones belief and
perception about the
government in church in
thephilippines.
Noli Me Tangere
• noli is a romantic novel
•It is a “work of the heart “ -a
book of feeling
•It has freshness, color,,
humor, lightness, and wit
•It contains 64 chapters
El Filibusterismo
•Fili is a political novel
•It is a “work of a head “ - a book
of the thought
•It contains bitterness, hatred,
pain, violence and sorrow
•It contains 38 chapters
• In the making of the novels
Rizal spent more effort in
writing in his novel . It was
emotionally taxing because his
family was evicted from their
lands in Calamba.
•He practically no support
from his family in the
Philippines and he broke
away from the ranks of the
Filipino propagandist in
Spain.
•The writing and printing of
the novels were time that
tested Rizal’s resolve to see
these to completion.
•Both novels Rizal was
practically broke and not in
good health.
•The conditions during writing
of the Fili were worse as he was
practically starving, emotionally
drained from the hardships with
the Filipinos in Madrid, the
eviction of his family from
Calamba , the deportation of his
brother and in law plus his
personal misfortunes in he area
of love
WHAT IF THERE IS A
SEQUEL TO THE FILI?
This situation is symbolic
because the youth will be still
there to symbolized the
continuing struggle of the
Filipinos and the evils of the
past..
 THE EFFECTS OF NOLI ME
TANGERE AND
ELFILIBUSTERISMO TO THE
NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
•They awakened the filipinos to their
conditions under spanish rule and
that they need to work as one for
their freedom and salvation.
•It called on the Filipinos to mend
their ways, reclaim their honor as a
people, undertake the reforms of self
before society in order to prepare the
Philippines for eventual freedom.
•To keep the fiipinos aware of the
message an content of the novel, the
book has to be transated. A
Katipunero leader named Diego
Mojica made the first translation
from Spanish to Tagalog.
• Even with the fictional aspects of
the characters in the novels, there
were allusions to real persons,
places and events.
•Some of the persons in the novels
were thinly disguise by Rizal.
Because of the allusions of Rizal to
any actual personalities and events,
many people actually believed what
Rizal wrote were true facts.
•The presence of lies an half-truths
in the novels as well as its heretical
contents were some of the reasons
why the church vigorously oppose
the passage of the Rizal Bill in
1956. Today, the two novels are
very much remembered by the
filipino people.
•Streets and a plaza in Manila were
named after the novels as well as a
whole complex of streets.
•The individual characters too are
remembered: nowadays whenever a
priest or a member of the clergy does
something does something wrong or
interferes with the social life of the
people, he is called a modern Padre
Damaso.
• Sisa is remembered as the woman
of the weak character driven into
madness by her husband and a
cruel society; Maria Clara is seen as
a model of meekness and the
character of a Filipina.
•The words of Rizal either
speaking as Ibarra and
Simoun are remembered by
millions of Filipinos who at
least saw a movie about the
novels or actually read the
books.
THANKYOU AND
GODBLESS US
ALL!!  