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    The document discusses freedom and lack of freedom in Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere. It explores how lack of freedom during the Spanish colonial period inspired Rizal's desire for Philippine independence. While people lacked basic rights and freedoms under Spanish rule as depicted in the novel, the situation is now different in the Philippine constitution which enshrines democratic freedoms like speech, press, assembly and religion.

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    The document discusses freedom and lack of freedom in Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere. It explores how lack of freedom during the Spanish colonial period inspired Rizal's desire for Philippine independence. While people lacked basic rights and freedoms under Spanish rule as depicted in the novel, the situation is now different in the Philippine constitution which enshrines democratic freedoms like speech, press, assembly and religion.

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    The document discusses freedom and lack of freedom in Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere. It explores how lack of freedom during the Spanish colonial period inspired Rizal's desire for Philippine independence. While people lacked basic rights and freedoms under Spanish rule as depicted in the novel, the situation is now different in the Philippine constitution which enshrines democratic freedoms like speech, press, assembly and religion.

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    The document discusses freedom and lack of freedom in Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere. It explores how lack of freedom during the Spanish colonial period inspired Rizal's desire for Philippine independence. While people lacked basic rights and freedoms under Spanish rule as depicted in the novel, the situation is now different in the Philippine constitution which enshrines democratic freedoms like speech, press, assembly and religion.

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    1. What is freedom?

    2. How is the lack of freedom portrayed in the novel?


    3. How is the situation in the novel different from today?
    4. Express your insights about the novel.

    Freedom is the quality or state of being free and the absence of necessity,
    coercion, or constraint in choice or action. It is the liberation from slavery or from the
    power of another. One has freedom if he possesses the power and resources to fulfill
    one's purposes.

    For Jose Rizal, freedom is one’s love for our own country which was expressly
    written in the novel “Noli Me Tangere”. The lack of freedom was manifested in our
    society during the Spanish colonies and because of this chaos he desired our country’s
    freedom. Rizal envisioned that Filipinos’ freedom are worthy of credence.

    Rizal once claimed that the gift of reason with which we are endowed must be
    brightened and utilized in order to overcome ignorance which causes slavery in our
    society. He expressed his disapproval on the armed conflict against the Spaniards. Rizal
    even ellaborated in his writings that reforms must also come from above because
    reforms that come from below are upheavals both violent and transitory.

    The situation of lack of freedom is different in our society nowadays. Filipinos’


    freedom come in different form as embodied in the Constitution of the Philippines. As a
    democratic and republic state, we have several forms of freedom such as the right to
    freedom of speech and expression, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and the right to
    petition. The free exercise of religion; the right of abode and the right to travel and the right to
    information on matters of public concern are also written in the Constitution.

    The Freedom Constitution was intended as a transitional constitution to ensure


    democracy and the freedom of the people and provided for an orderly transfer of power to the
    people. Unlike during Spanish times, the people have no voice to speak for the truth and to fight
    against the abusive and corrupt government.

    In my own opinion, the novel Noli Me Tangere exposes obsolete and medieval judiciary
    practices by the church and also lack of freedom. Ibarra was imprisoned to death. He was
    persecuted in a manner that is out of justice and without due process of law. Sisa was also
    arrested, and Crispin was maltreated by friars.

    Indeed, lack of freedom was seen as a tool for our fellowmen to work hard to attain the
    independende and to have come up with the democracy as enshrined in our freedom
    Constitution.
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