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    El Filibusterismo: Background and Synopsis

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    Crisostomo Ibarra returns to the Philippines after 13 years under the alias "Simoun". As Simoun, he plots to spark a revolution against Spanish rule by encouraging corruption and abuse of power. Simoun plans an uprising to take place at a wedding, concealing explosives in a gift. However, the plan is foiled when Isagani throws the explosive into a river just before it detonates. Simoun's plot is exposed and he becomes a wanted man. He is later found wounded by a priest, to whom he reveals his true identity as Ibarra before passing away while questioning God.

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    Crisostomo Ibarra returns to the Philippines after 13 years under the alias "Simoun". As Simoun, he plots to spark a revolution against Spanish rule by encouraging corruption and abuse of power. Simoun plans an uprising to take place at a wedding, concealing explosives in a gift. However, the plan is foiled when Isagani throws the explosive into a river just before it detonates. Simoun's plot is exposed and he becomes a wanted man. He is later found wounded by a priest, to whom he reveals his true identity as Ibarra before passing away while questioning God.

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    Crisostomo Ibarra returns to the Philippines after 13 years under the alias "Simoun". As Simoun, he plots to spark a revolution against Spanish rule by encouraging corruption and abuse of power. Simoun plans an uprising to take place at a wedding, concealing explosives in a gift. However, the plan is foiled when Isagani throws the explosive into a river just before it detonates. Simoun's plot is exposed and he becomes a wanted man. He is later found wounded by a priest, to whom he reveals his true identity as Ibarra before passing away while questioning God.

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    Crisostomo Ibarra returns to the Philippines after 13 years under the alias "Simoun". As Simoun, he plots to spark a revolution against Spanish rule by encouraging corruption and abuse of power. Simoun plans an uprising to take place at a wedding, concealing explosives in a gift. However, the plan is foiled when Isagani throws the explosive into a river just before it detonates. Simoun's plot is exposed and he becomes a wanted man. He is later found wounded by a priest, to whom he reveals his true identity as Ibarra before passing away while questioning God.

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    EL FILIBUSTERISMO

    background and synopsis


    Background
    • El Filibusterismo is known as the “the reign of greed”.
    It was the sequel of his first book Noli Me Tangere.
    • Rizal wrote El Filibusterismo in dedication to the three
    martyr priests, Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and
    Jacinto Zamora.
    • He started writing El Filibusterismo on October 1887
    while he was in Calamba, Laguna and continued to
    London in 1888.
    • He finished writing the novel on March 29, 1891 while
    he was in Biarritz, and took 3years to complete the
    novel.
    • September 18,1891, the novel was published in
    Ghent, funded by Rizal’s friend Valentin Ventura.
    Rizal donated the manuscript and an autograph
    printed to Valentin Ventura.
    • El filibusterismo is composed of 38 chapters.
    Synopsis
    Crisostomo Ibarra is back as simoun. During the period in
    between the story line of Noli Me Tangere and El
    Filibusterismo which is 13 years, Ibarra left the Philippines
    and became a wealthy jeweler. He came back to the
    Philippines as Senor Simoun, disguised with a beard. He
    seems to have long abandoned his once vision of ending
    the despotism of Spain with words and peace. He
    becomes hungry for vengeance for all the misfortune our
    country has suffered under the tyranny of the Spaniards .
    And near the end of the novel, when he discovers that his lover,
    Maria Clara, died in the convent, he becomes all the more
    furious. Simoun is a confidant of the Captain-General. He
    encourages the government to make bad decisions and to abuse
    their power so that it would spark a revolution among the masses.
    Basilio, now all grown up, is at first reluctant to join in on Simoun’s
    idea but ends up being part of the plan. Simoun started planning
    uprisings and stashed guns in the shop of an ally. At the wedding
    reception of newlyweds (the bride being the ex-girlfriend of one
    of the friends of Basillo—Isagani), Simoun tells Basilio that his plan
    was to conceal an explosive which contains nitroglycerin inside a
    pomegranate-styled Kerosene lamp that Simoun will give to the
    newlyweds as a gift during the wedding reception.
    One of the priests who knew Ibarra before the ending of Noli Me Tangere
    confirmed to the people that it was the writing of Ibarra. The lamp started to
    dim… Outside the house, Basilio was about to walk away because he knew the
    lamp was going to explode anytime soon when he saw Isagani, the still heart-
    broken ex-boyfriend of the bride whose reception was still going on in the
    house of Capitan Tiago. Isagani said that he just wanted to congratulate the
    newly-weds. Basilio who then feared for the safety of his friend told him
    about the plan of Simoun. Isagani ran to the house. A priest was about to fix
    the lamp but once Isagani got in, he found the lamp and threw it out the
    window into the river outside the residence. Since the guards were chasing
    Isagani, he himself jumped out of the window into the river as well. There was
    an uprising planned by Simoun during the time of the reception.
    The band got caught and confessed that Simoun lead them. Ibarra
    was now wanted both as himself and as Simoun. Days passed and
    a good priest found Simoun walking along the shore, wounded and
    weak. The noble priest tended to Simoun while the latter explained
    that he is Ibarra and that he was greatly saddened and angry due to
    the failure of the revolution and that he was questioning God as to
    why he was the one who is suffering and not the ones who have
    forsaken the people of the Philippines. The priest explains that all
    punishments will come in due time. Ibarra died as he weakly held
    the hand of the priest. The latter blessed the former and threw
    away all the remaining jewels of Ibarra in the hopes that they may
    always be used for good.

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