EL FILIBUSTERISMO Flashcards
- revolution that failed which was orchestrated by Simoun.
- lambasting the friars and the Spanish officials for their greed, corruption, exploitation and injustice to satisfy their evil desires and to seek their own interest.
“Reign of Greed”
- began writing the novel
- written against the background of threats and oppressions he and his family suffered because of the Noli and the so called Calamba agrarian trouble.
1887
- London-Paris-Brussels.
- Brussels where distractions were less, and the cost of living was cheaper.
1888
- completed it by March 29, 1891 in Biarritz
1891
- Rizal’s roommate in Belgium, the one who looked for a printing press for El Fili
- He delivered proofs and revisions in Ghent. Rizal gave him the El Fili ‘s corrected proofs
and the pen used in doing the corrections.
Jose Alejandrino
When Alejandrino became a general in the Philippine revolution. The honor of being called “the savior of the “Fili” had gone to ________ _______
Valentin Ventura
For Ventura’s salvific act, Rizal gave him the novel’s original manuscript, a pen and an autographed printed copy in ____
1925
It came off the press by the ______ __ _________ ____, , turned out comprising only 38 chapters (than Noli’s 64 chapter)
middle of September 1891
But even with Ventura’s help, Rizal found it necessary to fundamentally shorten the novel, _______ __ _____ _____ from the ___ ____ manuscript to save expenses
erasing 47 whole pages
279 page
is derived from the simple term filibuster.
The Filibusterismo
defined the word (filibustero) to his friend _________ ____________ who encountered but did
not fully comprehend the word in the Noli. Rizal, thus explained in a letter
Ferdinand Blumentritt
The word ___________ thus, contextually means subversive, dissident,
revolutionary, seditious, insurrectionary and treasonous. Fittingly Rizal dedicated the book to the memory of the Gomburza, the three Filipino, patriotic priest who were accused of being filibuster and thus, executed.
filibustero
The GOMBURZA was executed in the Bagumbayan Field on the ___ of ________ ____. , I have the right to dedicate my work to you as victims of the evil which I undertake to combat. “(“El Filibusterismo,” n.d.)
28th of February 1872
Mistakes:
___ not 28th
GOmez, __ not 85
BURgos, __ not 30
ZAmora, __ not 35
Mistakes:
17th not 28th
GOmez, 73 not 85
BURgos, 35 not 30
ZAmora, 37 not 35
- exposes the real picture of Filipino society
- The main character’s persistence to push through with the rebellion, on the other hand, seems to suggest that independence is attainable through revolution
- closing chapters rather insinuate that freedom must be attained without bloodshed as the story ends with the failure of Simoun’s planned uprising.
- It is important to note that Rizal once commented that an upright, patriotic and selfless individual like Noli’s Elias would be a viable revolutionary leader
El Filibusterismo
