El Filibusterismo Flashcards
______________ is a sequel to Noli Me Tangere.
El Filibusterismo
A Chinese businessman who aspired to be a consul for China in the Philippines.
Quiroga
Crisostomo Ibarra reincarnated as a wealthy jeweler, bent on starting a revolution.
Simoun
TRUE OR FALSE
El Filibusterismo dark, brooding, at times satirical novel of revenge, unfulfilled love, and tragedy, the Fili (as it is popularly referred to) still has as its protagonist Elias.
FALSE – because the Fili (as it is popularly referred to) still has as its protagonist Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra.
Thirteen years older, Ibarra’s idealism and youthful dreams shattered, and taking advantage of the belief that he died at the end of Noli Me Tangere, he is disguised as __________, an enormously wealthy and mysterious jeweler who has gained the confidence of the colony’s governor-general.
Simoun
The one among the “rich folks” of Tiani who lent Juli money to ransom Kabesang Tales from the bandits. In return, Juli will serve as her maid until the money is paid off.
Hermana Penchang
He is Kapitan Tiago’s spiritual adviser and the only to witness his death.
Known to many as the final authority who Don Custodio consults, the student association sought his support and gifted him with two chest-nut colored horses, yet he betrayed the students by counseling Custodio into making them fee collectors in their own school.
Father Irene
He secretly but regularly supplies Kapitan Tiago with opium while exhorting Basilio to do his duty. He embellished stories of panic following the outlawing of the students association Basilio was part of, hastening Kapitan Tiago’s death. With Basilio in prison, he then struck Basilio out of Tiago’s last will and testament, ensuring he inherited nothing.
Father Irene
Doctor and husband of Dona Victorina.
Tiburcio de Espadana
She is described as a pious woman who speaks Spanish; however, her piety was clouded over by the virtues taught by the friars. While Juli was in her service, she worked constantly, refusing to give time off so she could take care of her grandfather Selo.
Hermana Penchang
When the rich folk of Tiano shunned Juli because to support her family in any way might earn some form of retribution from the friars, she was the only one who took pity upon her.
Hermana Penchang
The girlfriend of Basilio, and the youngest daughter of Kabesang Tales.
Juli or Juliana de Dios
Isagani’s uncle and a retired priest.
Father Florentino
He represented the secular Filipino priests in Rizal’s time. It was also through his character that the author stressed his disapproval of a bloody revolt.
Father Florentino
Isagani’s godfather, and a secular priest, was engaged to be married, but chose the priesthood instead. The story hinting at the ambivalence of his decision as he chooses an assignment to a remote place, living a solitude near the sea.
Father Florentino
Personifies the corrupted media.
Ben-Zayb
Abraham Ibanez is his real name. He is a journalist who thinks he is the only one thinking in the Philippines.
Ben-Zayb
In his own parish, he has a reputation for unrestrained lustfulness. He drives Juli into suicide after attempting to rape her inside the convent. For his misbehavior, he was “detained” in a luxurious riverside villa just outside Manila.
Father Camorra
The parish priest of Tiani. Ben-Zayb’s regular, he is said to look like an artilleryman in counterpoint to Ben-Zayb’s friar looks. He stops at nothing to mock and humiliate Ben-Zayb’s liberal pretensions.
Father Camorra
Aunt of Paulita Gomez.
Donya Victorina
A socialite and friend of Capitan Tiago. She insulted everything she saw about the natives when they were at the Tabo.
Donya Victorina
Isagani’s rival for Pualita Gomez’ affection. He was the son of Timoteo Pelaez, a metalworks trader. He was a favorite of his professors. A regular prankster, he was said to have developed a hump by playing some trick and then hunching behind his classmates.
Juanito Pelaez – (student association for the teaching of Spanish)
He paid his dues to the student association, but broke away just as easily when the association was outlawed. Following Isagani’s arrest, Paulita breaks off from Isagani to marry him.
Juanito Pelaez – (student association for the teaching of Spanish)
When Tales was captured by bandits, she petitioned Hermana Penchang to pay for his ransom. In exchange, she had to work as Penchang’s maid. Basilio ransomed her and bought a house for her family.
Juli or Juliana de Dios
TRUE OR FALSE
When Basilio was sent to prison, Paulita approached Tiani’s curate, Padre Camorra, for help. Camorra tried to rape her, Pualita jumped to her death from the church’s tower.
FALSE – because instead of Paulita, this is Juli.
Like Maria Clara, symbolizes the purity and innocence of the lower class women during Rizal’s time. She would rather sacrifice rather than give up her ideals.
Juli or Juliana de Dios
A student of the University of Santo Tomas who is always miserable, and therefore, controls his temper.
Placido Penitente
Had a distaste for studying and would have left school if it were not for his mother’s pleas for him to stay.
Placido Penitente
He clashes with his physics professor, who then accuses him of being a member of the student association, whom the friars despise. Following the confrontation, he meets Simoun at the Quiapo Fair. Seeing the potential in him, Simoun takes him along to survey his preparations for the upcoming revolution.
Placido Penitente
He became one of Simoun’s committed followers. He is later seen with the former schoolmaster of San Diego, who was now Simoun’s bomb-maker.
Placido Penitente
Placido means – silent and Penitente means – suffering. Combining those words, “silent suffering,” or in tagalog, “_________________.”
tahimik na paguluksa
Placido means – silent and Penitente means – suffering. Combining those words, “silent suffering,” or in tagalog, “_________________.”
tahimik na paguluksa
Has risen from poverty to become Captain Tiago’s charge. He close to acquiring his medical degree, he is pledged to Juli, the beautiful daughter of Kabesang Tales.
Basilio
He shared the same nationalistic ideals with that of Isagani. The both of them led their fellow students in the movement for the establishment of the Spanish academy for Filipinos. The only difference between the two is their social status.
Macaraig
He represented the well-to-do Filipino youth during the Spanish era who had good dreams for the country. HIs character also provided readers a glimpse of how differently the rich and the poor were treated during that time in society.
Macaraig
The leader of the student association for the teaching of Spanish.
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Macaraig
He is described as wealthy, with his own coach, driver, and set of horses. He said he owns several houses, and that he is lending one to serve as the schoolhouse for their planned Spanish language academy. After the outlawing of the group, he was the first to post bail. He then left the country after his release.
Macaraig
The girlfriend of Isagani and the niece of Donya Victorina. In the end, she and Juanito Pelaez are wed, and she dumps Isagani, believing that she will have no future if she marries him.
Paulita Gomez
She is a caricature of a woman who chooses the best option for a more stable future. She knows what is best for her and would take advantage of her admirers to get what she wants.
Paulita Gomez
He personified a typical Filipino who is content with living a simple life. He also symbolizes the natives and farmers whose lands were seized by the friars, an explanation as to why Filipinos became rebels.
Kabesang Tales or Telesforo Juan de Dios
A high official in the government, he has held many posts, many of which he had no qualifications for.
He used his rich wife’s money to secure such positions. He has a mistress, a dancer named Pepay, on whom people rely for assistance in swaying Don Custodio when they need a favor from him.
Don Custodio
Known as Buena Tinta; a journalist.
Don Custodio
A former cabeza de barangay who resurfaced as the feared Luzon bandit Matanglawin (Tagalog for Hawkeye).
Kabesang Tales or Telesforo Juan de Dios
Poet and Basilio’s best friend; portrayed as emotional and reactive; Paulita Gomez’ boyfriend before being dumped for fellow student, Juanito Pelaez.
Isagani Villamor
He is the symbol of the youth whose love for the country is great to the point of being branded as idealistic.
Isagani Villamor
After his mother’s death in the Noli, he applied as a servant in Capitan Tiago’s household in exchange for food, lodging, and being allowed to study.
Eventually, he took up medicine, and with Tiago having retired from society, he also became the manager of Tiago’s vast estate.
Basilio
He is a quiet, contemplative man who is more aware of his immediate duties as a servant, doctor, and member of the student association than he is of politics or patriotic endeavor.
Basilio
His sweetheart is Juli, the daughter of Kabesang Tales whose family took him in when he was a young boy fleeing the Guardia Civil and his deranged mother.
Basilio
His sweetheart is Juli, the daughter of Kabesang Tales whose family took him in when he was a young boy fleeing the Guardia Civil and his deranged mother.
Basilio
He was derisively described by Custodio and Ben-Zayb as an American mulatto or a British Indian.
Simoun
TRUE OR FALSE
He represents the revolutionaries during that time who supported the idea of holding a bloody revolt against the Spanish government. His death in El Filibusterismo tells readers that Rizal supports the armed revolution.
FALSE– because Rizal does not support the armed revolution.
While presenting as the arrogant elitist on the outside, he secretly plans a violent revolution in order to avenge himself for his misfortunes as Crisostomo Ibarra, as well as hasten Elias’ reformist goals.
Simoun
Maria Clara ‘s father.
Captain Tiago or Don Santiago de los Santos.
He is an old Filipino lawyer who refuses to help the Filipino students in their clamor for educational reforms.
Senor Pasta
He represents the part of the society that is only generous and sympathetic to the rich and powerful.
Senor Pasta
Having several landholdings in Pampanga, Binondo, and Laguna, as well as taking ownership of Ibarra’s vast estate, he still fell into depression following Maria’s entry into the convent.
Captain Tiago or Don Santiago de los Santos.
He alleviated this by smoking opium, which quickly became an uncontrolled vice, exacerbated by his association with Padre Irene who regularly supplied him with the substance.
Captain Tiago or Don Santiago de los Santos.
He hired Basilio as a capista, a servant who was given the opportunity to study as part of his wages; Basilio eventually pursued medicine and became his caregiver and the manager of his estate.
Captain Tiago or Don Santiago de los Santos.
He died of shock upon hearing of Basilio’s arrest and Padre Irene’s embellished stories of violent revolt.
Captain Tiago or Don Santiago de los Santos.
A Dominican friar introduced in Noli Me Tangere who now serves as the director and chaplain of the University of Santo Tomas.
Father Hernando de la Sibyla
The former parish priest of San Diego in Noli Me Tangere, and now the director and chaplain of the Santa Clara convent.
Father Bernardo Salvi
The epilogue of the Noli implies that he regularly rapes Maria Clara when he is present at the convent.
Father Bernardo Salvi
In El Fili, he is described as her confessor. In spite of reports of Ibarra’s death, Salvi believes that he is still alive and lives in constant fear of his revenge.
Father Bernardo Salvi
Described as a chubby, pessimistic, and having an annoying grin. He is Sandoval’s regular foil when Sandoval launches into any kind of patriotic, optimistic speech.
Pecson – student association for the teaching of Spanish
After they received disappointing news about their Spanish language academy project, it was him who suggested a torch-lit dinner at the Panciteria Macanista de Buen Gusto, just a block away from the Binondo Burch and Convent, served by naked Chinese waiters.
Pecson – student association for the teaching of Spanish
Juli’s mother-figure and counselor. She accompanied Juli in her efforts to secure Kabesang Tales’ ransom and later on Basilio’s release.
Hermana Bali
The highest-ranking official in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period.
Gobernador General
In the novel, he is Simoun’s friend and confidant, and is described as having an insatiable lust for gold. Simoun met him when he was still a major during the Ten Years War in Cuba. He secured the major’s friendship and promotion to his position through bribes.
Gobernador General
When he was posted in the Philippines, Simoun used him as a pawn in his own power plays to drive the country into revolution.
Gobernador General
The Gobernador General was shamed into not extending his tenure after being rebuked by a high official in the aftermath of Basilio’s imprisonment. This decision of retirement would later on prove to be a crucial element to Simoun’s schemes.
Gobernador General
A dancer associated with Don Custodio.
Pepay
Kabesang Tales’ son, second to Lucia who died in childhood.
Tano
He was nicknamed Carolino after returning from Guardia Civil training in the Carolines.
Tano
His squad was escorting prisoners through a road that skirted a mountain when they were ambushed by bandits. In the ensuing battle, he, the squad’s sharpshooter, killed a surrendering bandit from a distance, not knowing it was his own grandfather, Selo.
Tano
A Dominican who serves as a physics professor in the University of Santo Tomas.
Father Millon
A magician who put up a show to narrate the story of Maria Clara and Crisostomo Ibarra. This show made Padre Salvi agitated and passed out.
Leeds
A truant and charlatan who regularly dreamed of an eternal “holiday” from school, but was all the same beloved by professors and passed courses.
Tadeo– student association for the teaching of Spanish
A long-time Manila resident, he is seen having fun by telling outrageous stories about himself to a newcomer student from his home province.
Tadeo– student association for the teaching of Spanish
After the outlawing of the group, he alone seemed to welcome imprisonment as it meant not going to school. His holiday realized at last, he “celebrated” by setting up a bonfire using his books upon his release.
Tadeo– student association for the teaching of Spanish
She was a panguingera (a gambler) who once performed religious services in a Manila convent.
Hermana Bali
When Tales was captured by bandits, it was her who suggested to Juli the idea to borrow money from Tiani’s wealthy citizens, payable when Tales’ legal dispute over his farm was won.
Hermana Bali
Juanito Pelaez’ father
Don Timoteo Pelaez
Father of Kabesang Tales and grandfather of Tano and Juli. A deer hunter and later a broom-maker, he and Tales took in the young, sick Basilio who was then fleeing from the Guardia Civil.
Tandang Selo
On Christmas Day, when Juli left to be with her mistress, he suffered some form of stroke that impaired his ability to speak. After Juli’s suicide, he left town permanently, taking with him is hunting spear.
Tandang Selo
He was later seen with the bandits and was killed in an encounter with the Guardia Civil– ironically, by the gun of the troops’ sharpshooter Tano, his grandson.
Tandang Selo
A Dominican who was a friend of Isagani. Following the incident with the posters, he invited Isagani to a dialogue, not so much as a teacher with his student but as a friar with a Filipino.
Father Fernandez
A Peninsular who had come to Manila as a government employee and was finishing his studies, and who had completely identified himself with the cause of the Filipino students. After the outlawing of the group, he still managed to pass his courses through sheer oratorical skill.
Sandoval – student association for the teaching of Spanish
Simoun coerced him into hiding weapons inside the latter’s warehouses in preparation for the revolution.
Quiroga
