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    The document summarizes the origins and key details of Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere. It discusses how the idea for the novel came about during a meeting in 1884, and how it was inspired by Uncle Tom's Cabin. Rizal wrote the novel from 1884 to 1886 while in Madrid and Berlin. Some of the main characters represented real people, and the novel aimed to expose the corruption of the Spanish clergy and their oppression of Filipinos. Upon publication, it generated significant controversy among the friars who sought to condemn Rizal, seeing the novel as heretical and unpatriotic.

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    The document summarizes the origins and key details of Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere. It discusses how the idea for the novel came about during a meeting in 1884, and how it was inspired by Uncle Tom's Cabin. Rizal wrote the novel from 1884 to 1886 while in Madrid and Berlin. Some of the main characters represented real people, and the novel aimed to expose the corruption of the Spanish clergy and their oppression of Filipinos. Upon publication, it generated significant controversy among the friars who sought to condemn Rizal, seeing the novel as heretical and unpatriotic.

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    The document summarizes the origins and key details of Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere. It discusses how the idea for the novel came about during a meeting in 1884, and how it was inspired by Uncle Tom's Cabin. Rizal wrote the novel from 1884 to 1886 while in Madrid and Berlin. Some of the main characters represented real people, and the novel aimed to expose the corruption of the Spanish clergy and their oppression of Filipinos. Upon publication, it generated significant controversy among the friars who sought to condemn Rizal, seeing the novel as heretical and unpatriotic.

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    Rizal and His Novel Noli Me Tangere

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    of 13

    The idea of writing a novel was hatched during a meeting of Filipinos in the house of Pedro Paterno in Madrid on January

    4,1884 when Rizal proposed writing one about the Philippines. His proposal was welcomed by Pedro Maximino. Antonio Paterno, Graciano Lopez-Jaena, evaristo Aguirre. Eduardo de Lete, Julio Llorente and Valentin Ventura.

    This novel was inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin which was about the cruelties of American slave-owners.

    He began writing the novel in Madrid towards the end of 1884 and completed it while staying in Germany by the end of 1886.
    The arrival of his friend Maximo Viola saved the novel from destruction. He lent Rizal 300 pesos which made possible the printing of 300 copies. Rizal gave Viola the gallery proofs of the Noli Me Tangere with an autograph saying,

    To my dear friend, Maximo Viola, the first to read and appreciate my work Jose Rizal March 29,1887, Berlin

    The

    title of the novel means do not touch me in Latin.


    to Rizal, it was taken from the gospel of Luke. Actually, Rizal was mistaken. It should be from the gospel of St. John Chapter 20, verses 13-17 dedicated the novel to the Philippines in which he warned of a social cancer and that exposing the ills of society

    According

    Rizal

    He aimed to portray the conditions of the Philippines and expose the widespread arrogance of the friars, government officials and their corruption It also aimed to portray the complacency of the Filipinos and the lost of their native identity. It aimed to unite the Filipino people by opening their eyes to the existing social and economic conditions.

    1.

    Kapitan Tiago - the novel begins with a party in the home of Kapitan Tiago in honor of Juan Crisostomo Ibara y Magsalin who had just completed seven years study in Europe.

    2.

    Tax collector
    - Don Rafael accidentally killed the tax collector and was consequently sent to prison where he died.

    3. Elias
    - Elias saved Ibarra from being crushed as the derrick bearing the heavy stone collapsed and the would- be assassin was killed. Ibarra was nearly killed when he was sealing the cornerstone with cement

    4. Father Damaso
    -During the following evening, Damaso continued to slander the memory of Ibarras father. Because of this, Ibarra grabbed Fr. Damaso and took hold a knife and was about to dispatch the friar 5. Don Tiburcio de Espadana -a dubious Spanish physician who was married to Dona Victorina, a Filipina who looks down with her fellow indios 6. Alfonso Linares de Espadana

    -Tiburcios cousin and god-son of Damaso. He was actually penniless peninsular in search of rich heiress and a fortune

    7. Basilio

    - son of Sisa and brother of Crispin. His brother was accused of stealing from the church collection while he managed to escape from the evil Chief Sacristan.
    8. Balat -elder son of Elias grandfather who became a feared bandit and later was captured and cut off his head which was hung from a tree

    9. Dona Consolacion
    - mistress of the Spanish Alferez who had a fight with Dona Victorina. It was Father Salvi who came and made them stop

    10. Maria Clara


    - She gave Ibarras letter for her to the authorities which were used as evidence against him. She revealed that his letters were exchange for the letter from her late mother, Pia Alba

    Allusions of the Noli Me Tangere


    Maria Clara- Leonor Rivera

    Elias and Ibarra- Rizal


    Pilosopo Tacio- Paciano/ Romualdo Teodoro de Jesus Padre Salvi- Fr. Antonio Piernavieja

    Franciscans villains

    Kapitan Tiago- Don Hilario Sunico Of San Nicolas Dona Victorina- Augustina Medel Basilio and Crispin- Crisostomo brothers from Hagonoy,Bulacan

    Blumentritt

    wrote that the novel was written with the blood of the hear and so the hear also speaks. friars called the novel- impious, heretic and unpatriotic wrote after he visited the Philippines in1887 that he was malign.

    The

    Rizal

    In his letter to Blumentritt:


    My book made a lot of noise; everywhere, I am

    asked about it. They wanted to anathematize me [to excommunicate me] because of it I am considered a German spy, an agent of Bismarck, they say I am a Protestant, a free mason, a sorcerer, a damned soul, and evil. It is whispered that I want to draw plans, that I have a foreign passport and that I wander through the streets by night

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