RIZAL WK 11

• Noli Me Tangere


  Novel written by Jose Rizal that criticized society under Spanish colonial rule
• Noli Me Tangere


  • Written in Spanish and published in 1887
  • Revolves around the character of Crisostomo Ibarra, a mixed-race heir of a wealthy clan, returning home after seven years in Europe and filled with ideas on how to help his countrymen
  • Instead, he was met with an indifferent Spanish administration and a cruel, abusive societal hierarchy
  • The novel is filled with symbolisms of the Philippines in Rizal's time
  • Brilliantly used satire to criticize the Spanish regime
• Character Symbolisms


  • Crisostomo Ibarra - symbolized the idealism of the privileged youth
  • Padre Damaso and Padre Salvi - embodied the rotten state of the clergy
  • Maria Clara and Sisa - symbolized the country's condition – from beauty to madness
  • Doña Victorina de Espadaña - represented colonial mentality
  • Don Tiburcio - a caricature of the ignorant Spaniards who took advantage of the poor Filipinos in the provinces
  • Elias - represented the common Filipino who was aware of the injustice and wished to exact revenge
  • Crispin - the innocents who have been wrongly accused of a crime they did not commit
  • Pilosopo Tasyo - symbolized the learner Filipinos who had once embraced the Spaniards but eventually became disenchanted
• Characters


  • Crisostomo Ibarra - a Filipino who studied in Europe for 7 years, the main character of the novel and the love interest of Maria Clara
  • Elias - Ibarra's mysterious friend, a fugitive
  • Maria Clara - Ibarra's sweetheart; the illegitimate daughter of Padre Damaso and Pia Alba
  • Padre Damaso - a Franciscan friar and Maria Clara's biological father
  • Linares - Maria Clara's would-be fiancé; a distant nephew of Don Tiburcio
  • Sisa - mother of Crispin and Basilio, who went insane after losing her sons
  • Crispin - the younger son of Sisa who died at the hands of the soldiers
  • Basilio - the elder son of Sisa
  • Kapitan Tiago - also known as Don Santiago de los Santos, the known father of Maria Clara
  • Padre Salvi - described as thin, sickly and silent; a secret admirer of Maria Clara
  • Pilosopo Tasio - an intelligent pessimistic old man
  • Don Filipo - close relative of Ibarra and a filibuster
  • The Alferez - mortal enemy of the priests for the power in San Diego
  • Don Tiburcio - a charlatan who is limp and submissive to his wife
  • Doña Victorina - a woman who passes herself off as one of the Peninsulares; wife of Don Tiburcio
  • Doña Consolacion - wife of the Alferez; also passes herself off as a Peninsular
  • Pedro - abusive husband of Sisa; loves cockfighting
• Chapter Summaries


  • Chapter 1: A Social Gathering
  • Chapter 2: Crisostomo Ibarra
  • Chapter 3: The Dinner
  • Chapter 4: Heretic and Filibuster
  • Chapter 5: A Star in a Dark Night
  • Chapter 6: Capitan Tiago
  • Chapter 7: An Idyll on an Azotea
  • Chapter 8: Recollections
  • Chapter 9: Local Affairs
  • Chapter 10: The Town
  • Chapter 11: The Rulers
  • Chapter 12: All Saints
  • Chapter 13: Signs of Storm
  • Chapter 14: Tasio: Lunatic or Sage
  • Chapter 15: The Sacristans
  • Chapter 16: Sisa
  • Chapter 17: Basilio
  • Chapter 18: Souls in Torment
  • Chapter 19: A Schoolmater's Difficulties
  • Chapter 20: The Meeting in the Town Hall
  • Chapter 21: The Story of a Mother
  • Chapter 22: Lights and Shadows
  • Chapter 23: Fishing
  • Chapter 24: In the Wood
  • Chapter 25: In the House of the Sage
  • Chapter 26: The Eve of the Fiesta
  • Chapter 27: In the Twilight
  • Chapter 28: Correspondence
  • Chapter 29: The Morning
  • Chapter 30: In the Church
  • Chapter 31: The Sermon
  • Chapter 32: The Derrick
  • Chapter 33: Free Thought
  • Chapter 34: The Dinner
• Procession held during the last day of the fiesta


  Procession held
• Rowdy parishioners push each other while dipping their hands in the holy water. They also await for Padre Damaso's sermon.
• Padre Damaso's sermon


  1. Padre Damaso reprimands some natives

  2. Elias warns Ibarra that his life is in danger
• Ibarra almost had an accident at the site for his school building

  The derrick suddenly falls apart, dropping a heavy block of stone
• Elias visits Ibarra


  Informs him again that he has many enemies out to ruin him
• Dinner incident between Padre Damaso and Ibarra

  1. Padre Damaso belittles Ibarra for building a school

  2. Ibarra lunges at him with a knife in hand

  3. Maria Clara intervenes
• The town discusses the incident between Padre Damaso and Ibarra. Others criticized Ibarra for his lack of self-control. Others think he will be branded as a filibuster. But there were others who agreed with Ibarra, commenting that he did the right thing protecting his father's honor and memory.
• Capitan Tiago breaks Maria Clara's wedding engagement to Ibarra


  Maria Clara to marry a relative of Padre Damaso, Alfonso Linares
• The governor-general talks to Ibarra about the dinner incident and assured him that he will be protected.
• Procession


  Tasio sees the poor clothing of the saints and sarcastically remarked that the saints would be ashamed if they see the lifestyle of their fellow servants of God
• Sisa maltreated by Doña Consolacion


  1. Sisa whipped when she refused to dance

  2. Alferez arrives and stopped the whipping, ordering a servant to feed the insane woman, clothe her and have her treated by a doctor
• Play watched by Maria Clara, her friends, Don Filipo, and Padre Salvi

  1. Padre Salvi orders Don Filipo to stop Ibarra from watching

  2. Padre Salvi walked out when Don Filipo refuses to follow his orders
• Elias informs Ibarra that Maria Clara is sick with fever.
• Don Tiburcio and his wife, Victorina, together with the Linares, arrives at the house of Capitan Tiago.
• Linares introduces himself to Padre Damaso.
• Padre Salvi's reaction after Maria Clara's confession

  1. Padre Salvi looked extra pale and sweaty

  2. He revealed to Maria Clara who her real father is
• Elias talks to the leader of some bandits in Batangas

  Tells them that Ibarra can help them without commiting violence against the government
• Doña Victorina and Doña Consolacion exchange insults


  Almost got into a fight
• Ibarra wishes to inform Maria Clara that his excommunication is lifted, but upon arriving at her house, he sees her with Linares. He decided to visit the school site instead.
• Elias converses with Ibarra

  1. Tells him that with his education and position in society, he can ask the Spanish government to implement radical reforms

  2. Ibarra objects, saying that the religious corporations and the Guardia Civil are necessary evils that must be tolerated by the society
• Elias narrates his misfortunes and life story.
• Padre Salvi informs Linares, Maria Clara and Capitan Tiago that Ibarra's excommunication has been lifted. They are just waiting for Ibarra to ask forgiveness from Padre Damaso.
• Don Filipo visits Tasio the Sage

  Tasio praises Filipo for resigning from his work, saying that resistance must be used against all person who abuse their authority
• Padre Salvi warns the Alferez about an impending attack on the town

  1. Elias alerts Ibarra on the imminent attack and helps him dispose some letters that might implicate him

  2. Elias finds out that Ibarra's great grandfather was the man who accused his great grandfather arson
• Ibarra arrested by the Guardia Civil

  Elias sets fire on Ibarra's house to destroy any evidence that could implicate Ibarra in the failed attack
• Rumors circulate around the town about the attack. People assumed that Filipo, Ibarra, and some bandits were caught in the night.
• Guardia Civil tortures Tarsilo


  Tarsilo remained silent regarding the mastermind of the attack up to his death
• Ibarra led to his cell to be transported


  Ibarra cursed, stoned, and ridiculed by the people
• The people of Manila falsely blamed Ibarra of the failed rebellion. The friars praised Padre Salvi for alerting the authorities about the rebellion. Others criticize the Jesuits because Ibarra had been educated at the Ateneo. It was actually Padre Salvi who planned the rebellion to frame Ibarra.
• Maria Clara asks forgiveness from Ibarra


  She is about to be married to someone else, but vows that she will always be faithful to him
• Maria Clara asks Padre Damaso to break her marriage engagement and to permit her to enter the nunnery


  He eventually agreed
• Basilio returns to San Diego to look for his insane mother


  1. Sisa dies after eventually recognizing her son

  2. Basilio lost consciousness

  3. Elias found him and orders Basilio to cremate him and his mother
• Padre Damaso is reassigned as a parish priest to a distant province but is found dead the next day.
• Maria Clara became a nun.
• The Alferez went back to Spain and left his wife.