NOLI ME TANGERE Flashcards by Sarah Faith Cañarejo

cover page of the noli me tangere

PAST
top triangle
pomelo blossoms and laurel leaves
silhouette of a woman
burning torch
sunflower

PRESENT
bamboo stalks
chains
hairy feet
whip
helmet of guardia civil

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The main character in the novel, epresented the
affluent and liberal European- educated Filipino.
Civic minded, liberty-minded and patriotic.

Juan Crisostomo Ibarra

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The mother of Basilio and Crispin in the Noli. She
symbolized a lot of things in Filipino society during
Rizal’s time.

Sisa

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cahin

slavery and imprisonment

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Represented the Filipino masses in the novel. As the
symbol of the common people, did everything
to vindicate them from the injustices suffered from
the Spaniards.

Elias

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Father Damaso considered him a
heretic and a filibustero owing to his liberal and
independent views.

Don Rafael Ibarra

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The object of Ibarra’s love and affection. Rizal
represented Filipino womanhood trained in a convent and immerses in education basically
religious in orientation.

Maria Clara

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Crisostomo’s father. He was jailed for helping a
young boy being harmed by an ignorant Spanish
tax collector

Don Rafael Ibarra

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where is noli me tangere written

madrid 1884-1885
paris
berlin

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savior of noli

Dr. Maximo Viola

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Noli me tangere printed ___ copies for __ pesos

2000 copies for 300 pesos

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Ideas on Writing a novel about the
Philippines

Spoliarium
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Wandering Jew - Eugene Sue

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Portrays the brutalities
committed by American
slave-owners and the
pathetic conditions of
the unfortunate Negro
slaves.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin -
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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An anti-clerical novel

The Wandering Jew -
Eugene Sue

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Reflection of the spirit of
the social, moral, and
political life of his time
because it clearly
showed mankind under
severe ordeal, mankind
unredeemed, and
reason and aspiration in
an open struggle with
fanaticism and injustice.

Spoliarium

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latin of noli me tangere

Touch me not

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noli me tangere is taken from what bible verse

John 20:17 when Mary Magdalene holds on to
Jesus and he tells her not to touch him

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Noli Me tangere Upper triangle

This represent the Rizal’s past life

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Noli Me Tangere Lower triangle

Rizal’s currents situations.

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Cross/Crucifix

represents the Catholic
faith as it rises above
Inang Bayan and Filipinos
(shows dominance)

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Pomelo Blossoms & Laurel Leaves

faith, honor, fidelity

pomelos scent during prayers and rituals

laurel crowns during greek olympics

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burning torch

awakening of filipino consciousness

olympic torch

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silhouette of a woman

believed to be Maria Clara or as the “Inang Bayan”

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sunflowers

enlightenment, new beginnings, hope

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TOP TRIANGLE CONTENTS

CROSS POMELO BLOSSOMS & LAUREL LEAVES SIHOUTTE OF A WOMAN BURNING TORCH SUNFLOWER

BAMBOO STALKS

represents Filipino resiliency

CHAINS

slavery and imprisonment

HAIRY MAN FEET

friars hide their true nature and character

WHIPS

abuses and cruelties done by the Spaniards and friars

Helmet of a Guardia Civill

arrogance of those in authority

CONTENTS OF LOWER TRIANGLE

BAMBOO STALKS CHAINS HAIRY LEGS WHIP HELMET OF GUARDIA CIVIL

1st novel of rizal

noli me tangere

noli me tangere has ___ chapters

63 chapters + epilogue

how old is rizal when he wrote noli

he was in the University of Central de Madrid when he started writing it (26 yrs old

In a letter to Felix Hidalgo, Rizal mistakenly attributed the quotation to ___

Gospel of Luke

to publish a book that would reveal the ills of Spanish-colonized Philippines society Rizal suggested the creation of books during a meeting of _____ in ______ at the ______ (___)

FILIPINOS, madrid, paternos residence, January 1884

3rd quarter of novel was written in

paris

They were more interested in writing women, gambling, and flirting instead of publishing Noli

○ Paternos (Pedro, Maximino, Antonio) ○ Graciano Jaena ○ Valentin Ventura ○ Eduardo de Lete ○ Evaristo Agguirre ○ Julio Llorente

from a rich family in San Miguel, Bulacan

Dr. Maximo Viola

completion of noli me tangere

Berlin, Germany at the end of 1886

was given the 1st copy of the book with dedication which describes ____ as the “first to read and appreciate [Rizal’s] work

Dr. Maximo Viola

Dr maximo viola came to _ for a __

Germany for a Europe tour

THE SYNOPSIS 1. The return of ___ 2. Reunion dinner of House _____ 3. Ibarra plans on establishing a ______ 4. ____ falsely accused of theft and beaten 5. ___ warned Ibarra about a plot to kill him 6. ____ is excommunicated and imprisoned 7. ___ rescue Ibarra out of prison 8. ___ enters a convent knowing Ibarra is dead 9. Elias tells ___ that he is about to die “ I die without seeing the dawn’s light shining on my country… You, who will see it, welcome it for me, don’t forget those who fell during night time.

Ibarra House Kapitan Tiago public school Crispin Elias Ibarra Elias Maria Basilio

Rizal deleted ______ to economize printing

"Elias and Salome” (ch 25)

requested the local government of San Diego to construct a public school to promote education in town

Ibarra

returned to San Diego after studying abroad for 7 years

ibarra

lives in San Diego, Bulacan ○ was excom after he lunged at Padre Damaso for attacking the dignity of his father

crisostomo ibarra

- foster father of Maria Clara, opium business ○ never attended school, so he became a domestic helper of a Dominican friar who taught him informal education

Capitan Tiago (Santiago de los Santos)

San Diego’s cabeza de barangay ○ married to Pia Alba ○ end: got addicted to opium

Capitan Tiago (Santiago de los Santos)

- fat franciscan priest who had been assigned for many years in San Diego ○ got mad because of Tinola (leeg) ○ enemy of Rafael Ibarra ○ best known as a notorious character who speaks with harsh words and has been a cruel priest during his stay in the town ○ end: found dead in his bedroom

Padre Damaso

dominican curate of Binondo ○ instructed by a old priest in is order to watch Crisostomo

Fray Sybila

guardia civil

Lieutenant Guevarra

wife of Tiburcio ○ an ambitious Filipina who classifies herself as a Spanish and mimics Spanish ladies by putting on heavy make up

Dona Victorina (social climber) -

fake spanish physician who is limp and submissive to his wife

Tiburcio de Espadana

close friend of Rafael Ibarra. Reveals to Crisostomo how his father died

Teniente Guevara -

Crisostomo’s fiancee ○ she entered local covenant for nuns Beaterio de Santa Clara ○ end: suicide on top of the convent

Maria Clara (represents Leonor Rivera) -

○ Padre Damaso arranged that he and Maria Clara would get married ○ distant nephew of Tiburcio ○ a quack practitioner of law ○ end: died due to given medications of Don Tiburcio

Alfonso Linares

father of Crisostomo ○ was unfairly accused (heretic & filibuster) because he helped the young boy who is being abused by a tax collector ○ was transferred in a Chinese cemetery but was instead thrown into the river

Don Rafael Ibarra

- boatman ○ first appearance: a pilot during a picnic of Ibarra and Maria Clara and her friends ○ notified Ibarra about the plot to kill him on the ceremony of the laying of the school’s cornerstone) ○ helped Ibarra escaped from prison ○ savior of Ibarra, the guards shot him thinking that he was Ibarra ○ wants to revolutionized the country and to be freed from Spanish oppression

Elias

- Don Anastacio ○ seeking for reforms from the government ○ expresses his ideals written in a cryptographic alphabet similar from hieroglyphs and optic figures hoping that the future generations may be able to decipher it

Filosofo Tacio (Pilosopo Tasyo) / Tacio el Loco (Insane Tacio)

molested Maria Clara ○ blackmailed Maria Clara to surrender Ibarraa’s letter in exchange of her dead mother’s letter (she learned about her real father, Padre Damaso) ○ very thin and sickly ○ Salvi -> Salvation / Salvaje

padre salvi

○ ‘la musa de los guardias civiles (The muse of the Civil Guards) ○ a former laundrywoman who passes herself as a Peninsular ○ abused Sisa

Doña Consolacion

(named after Narcisa) - mother of Basilio (escaped) and Crispin (tortured and killed due to accusation of stealing Padre Salvi’s 2 onzas, was covered up by Salvi) ○ wife of Pedro

sisa

mother of Maria Clara, was raped by Padre Damaso

pia alba

chief of Guardia Civil. Mortal enemy of the priests for power in San Diego and husband of Dona Consolacion

Alperes / El Alferez

- Kapitan Tiago’s cousin who raised Maria Clara

tia isabel

- most powerful official in the Philippines, great disdains against the friars and corrupt officials, and sympathizes Ibarra

gobernador heneral

linguistic curate of a nearby town, who says the sermon during San Diego’s fiesta

Padre Manuel Martin

vice mayor of the town of San Diego, leader of the liberals

Don Filipo Lino

small group of Filipinos who had a chance to study abroad and dreamt of improving the country

ibarra

wicked but respected priests

damaso

ideal Filipina, loving and unwavering loyalty to their spouse

maria clara

filipinos who opted to be allies of Spanish officials and friars to preserve wealth & positions

capitan tiago

ideas were advanced that other people couldn't understand him

Pilosopo Tasio (patterned after Paciano)

Filipinos who wished to revolutionize the country by liberating it from Spanish tyranny

elias

Filipino family oppressed by the spanish authorities

sisa and her sons

ambitious Filipinas who wanted to be classified as spanish

Dona Victorina

rich and same virtuous and generous Filipinos during the spanish era

don rafael ibarra

incompetent and unqualified spaniards who illegally practiced their supposed profession in the country

Don Tiburcio

___ would later translate the Noli into Tagalog

Paciano

seemingly kind but wicked spanish friars

pare salvi

Non-Filipino defenders of noli:

ferdinand buementritt Dr. miguel morayta federico faura

petitioned to ban the Noli

bernardino nozaeda

resentfully attacked the noli

Vicente Barrantes

augustinian priest who wrote 8 anti-Noli pamphlets

jose Rodriguez

(pen name: Justo Desiderio Magalang) - addressed and defended the novel

vicente garcia

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