RIZAL 101

1. DOLLENTE, REDEN D.
BSED II – ENGLISH
OBSERVATION OF DIFFERENT ASPECTS IN NOLI ME TANGERE AND IN
THE PRESENT CONTEXT:
RIZAL’S OBSERVATION & MY
OBSERVATION

2. GOVERNMENT &
OFFICIALS
• In Rizal’s viewpoint the
government officials back then
are the Spaniards friars who
were only assigned by the
Spaniard colonizer.
• Abuses of the Spanish friars and
officials with the onset of the
colonial rule.
GOVERNMENT &
OFFICIALS
• Todays government officials is
a great development compared
to Rizals time because we have
a voting system which we have
freedom to choose. And now,
they don’t overuse their powers
as compared to Spaniards.
RIZAL’S OBSERVATION IN NOLI ME TANGERE MY OBSERVATION IN THE PRESENT CONTEXT

3. CHURCH & RELIGION
• Catholicism is visible in the
organized system of the
church and its hierarchy.
• corrupt friars who have made the
Catholic religion an instrument
for enriching and perpetuating
themselves in power by seeking to
mire ignorant Filipinos in
fanaticism and superstition.
CHURCH & RELIGION
• Religion acts as an agency of
socialization. Thus, religion helps in
building values like love, empathy,
respect, and harmony.
• Catholic ideas continue to inform
beliefs throughout Filipino society
such as the sanctity of life and
respect for hierarchy.
• doctrine of God as the ‘Holy Trinity’
comprising the Father, the Son and
the Holy Spirit.
RIZAL’S OBSERVATION IN NOLI ME TANGERE MY OBSERVATION IN THE PRESENT CONTEXT

4. EDUCATION
• an important means of fighting
oppression.
• a medicine or something that
could cure the problems of
Colonial Philippines. He believed
in education that is free from
political and religious control. He
asserted that reform can not be
achieved if there is no
suitable education, a liberal one
available to Filipinos.
EDUCATION
• perhaps the single most important
means for individuals to improve
personal endowments, build
capability levels, overcome
constraints and in the process,
enlarge their available set of
opportunities and choices for a
sustained improvement in well-
being.
• develops a country's economy and
society.
RIZAL’S OBSERVATION IN NOLI ME TANGERE MY OBSERVATION IN THE PRESENT CONTEXT

5. ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
• A traditional Filipina is expected
to play "hard-to-get" as if she's
not interested. She has to maintain
modesty, shyness, be demure and
reserved, even if she has feelings
for her admirer in order for her to
see and know whether he's sincere
and serious about his feelings for
her. This characteristic is
somewhat referred to as Maria
Clara.
ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
• Courtship and marriage
changed a lot unlike in Rizal’s
observation.
• Virtual dating, chatting on-line,
sending text messages,
conversing over the telephone,
instant messaging, writing
letters, and sending gifts are all
modern forms of courting.
RIZAL’S OBSERVATION IN NOLI ME TANGERE MY OBSERVATION IN THE PRESENT CONTEXT

6. PAST TIMES/ HOBBIES
• Reading books, drinking
coffee, talking with
friends, and doing
household chores and
work is the form of their
past time and hobbies.
PAST TIMES/ HOBBIES
• Today, we have different
ways of entertainment that
we can recognize as past
times and hobbies. The
existence of gadgets and
technology; sports and
many things.
RIZAL’S OBSERVATION IN NOLI ME TANGERE MY OBSERVATION IN THE PRESENT CONTEXT

7. THE RICH AND POOR
• The rich and the privileged
become conspirators and act like
blind agents and executioners
behind the schemes of
exploitation, violence, and abuses
perpetrated by the functionaries
of Spanish colonial rule and the
Catholic church.
• No contentment
• Poor family/people are happy and
contented of what they have.
THE RICH AND POOR
• The rich can help without
being abusive unlike how Rizal
observed the rich in Noli Me
Tangere.
• rich claim that they don't have
that much money; or at least it
is not at there disposal.
• Poor families finds
contentment in small ways.
RIZAL’S OBSERVATION IN NOLI ME TANGERE MY OBSERVATION IN THE PRESENT CONTEXT

8. LIFE IN THE CITY
• Life in the city is vivid.
• José Rizal describes Manila as
dreary, unmodern and unlovely.
The trees around the plazas are
withered, the unpaved streets
choke people with dust on dry
days and turn into slurry on rainy
days, and the architecture is
uninspiring.
LIFE IN THE CITY
• There are lots of buildings and
lights in the City and the
presence of overcrowded
transportations.
• The presence of parks and
amusement places which gives
life to the city unlike the
observation of Rizal.
RIZAL’S OBSERVATION IN NOLI ME TANGERE MY OBSERVATION IN THE PRESENT CONTEXT

9. ‘END OF PRESENTATION’
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