El Filibusterismo

• The second novel written by Jose Rizal

  El Filibusterismo
• El Filibusterismo was first published in 1891 in Ghent, Belguim
• A rich jeweler sporting a beard and blue-tinted glasses, and a confidant of the Captain-General

  Crisostomo Ibarra
• Thirteen years after leaving Philippines, Crisostomo Ibarra returns as

  Simoun
• Abandoning his idealism, he becomes


  a cynical saboteur
• He does not attempt to fight the authorities through legal means, through violent revolution using the masses
• Simoun's reasons for instigating a revolution

  1. Rescue Maria Clara from the convent
  2. Get rid of ills and evils of Philippine Society
• Who discovered his true identity?

  Basilio
• Who was adopted by Captain Tiago after Maria Clara entered the convent?

  Basilio
• A former cabeza de barangay who suffered misfortunes at the hands of the friars

  Kabesang Tales
• A powerful man who has a great influence over the Kapitan Heneral. Using this, he plans to destroy the Spaniards as his vendetta for the sufferings of Crisostomo Ibarra.

  Simoun
• The eldest of Sisa's two sons, now an aspiring doctor whose medical education was being financed by Captain Tiago. He is now at the point of graduation during the events in the novel.

  Basilio
• Poet and Basilio's best friend

  Isagani
• Paulita Gomez' boyfriend before being dumped for fellow student Juanito Pelaez


  Isagani
• Cabeza Telesforo Juan de Dios, a former cabeza de barangay of Sagpang

  Kabesang Tales
• The girlfriend of Isagani and the niece of Dona Victorina

  Paulita Gomez
• One of Isagani's classmates at the University of Santo Tomas. A rich student and serves as the leader of the students yearning to build the Academia de Castellano.

  Macaraig
• Isagani's godfather, and a secular priest

  Father Florentino
• The girlfriend of Basilio, and the youngest daughter of Kabesang Tales.


  Juli/Huli
• To claim her father from the bandits, she had to work as a maid under the supervision of Hermana Penchang

  Juli/Huli
• The son of Timoteo Pelaez, a spanish businessman, he is also one of the members of Macaraig's gang who wish to have the Academia de Castellano built

  Juanito Pelaez
• Known in Noli me Tangere as TIburcio de Espadana's cruel wife

  Dona Victorina
• The parish priest of Tiani. He has been desiring young women ever since. He nearly raped Juli causing the latter to commit suicide.

  Father Camorra
• The pseudonym of Abraham Ibanez, a journalist who believes he is the "only" one thinking in the Philippines

  Ben-zayb
• A student of the University of Santo Tomas who was intelligent and wise but did not want, if not only by his mother's plea, to pursue his studies.

  Placido Penitente
• Kabesang Tales' elder son after his older sister, Lucia died in childhood

  Tano
• Former parish priest of San Diego, now the director and chaplain of the Santa Clara convent

  Father Bernardo Salvi
• Maria Clara's stepfather and the foster-father to Basilio

  Captain Tiago
• Captain Tiago's spiritual adviser

  Father Irene
• Father of kabesang tales

  Tandang Selo
• An essay written by Philippine national hero Jose Rizal to forecast the future of the country within a hundred years.

  The Philippines a Century Hence
• This essay, published in Solidaridadin Madrid between September 30, 1889 and February 1, 1890