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Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
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At the center of “Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)” by Philippine national hero José Rizal is the conflict against Spanish colonialism. The Philippines, which is named after King Philip II of Spain, was ruled by the Spanish empire as a colony from 1565 until the Philippine Revolution ended this rule in 1898. For his part in the Philippine Revolution, José Rizal was tried and convicted for rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy. His sentence was to be death by firing squad. Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra, the main character of “Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)”, returns to the Philippines after a seven year absence studying in Europe. He is betrothed to the María Clara, the beautiful daughter of Captain Tiago. With this work Rizal set out to write a novel that would expose the ills of Philippine society and in so doing created a passionate love story set amidst the backdrop of the political conflict against a repressive regime. “Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)” and its sequel “El Filibusterismo” are exceptional firsthand documents of the real struggles faced by the Philippine peoples at the end of the 19th century.
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Release dateMar 20, 2020
ISBN9781420968101
Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
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Jose Rizal

José Rizal (1861-1896) was a Filipino poet, novelist, sculptor, painter, and national hero. Born in Calamba, Rizal was raised in a mestizo family of eleven children who lived and worked on a farm owned by Dominican friars. As a boy, he excelled in school and won several poetry contests. At the University of Santo Tomas, he studied philosophy and law before devoting himself to ophthalmology upon hearing of his mother’s blindness. In 1882, he traveled to Madrid to study medicine before moving to Germany, where he gave lectures on Tagalog. In Heidelberg, while working with pioneering ophthalmologist Otto Becker, Rizal finished writing his novel Touch Me Not (1887). Now considered a national epic alongside its sequel The Reign of Greed (1891), Touch Me Not is a semi-autobiographical novel that critiques the actions of the Catholic Church and Spanish Empire in his native Philippines. In 1892, he returned to Manila and founded La Liga Filipina, a secret organization dedicated to social reform. Later that year, he was deported to Zamboanga province, where he built a school, hospital, and water supply system. During this time, the Katipunan, a movement for liberation from Spanish rule, began to take shape in Manila, eventually resulting in the Philippine Revolution in 1896. For his writing against colonialism and association with active members of Katipunan, Rizal was arrested while traveling to Cuba via Spain. On December 30, 1896, he was executed by firing squad on the outskirts of Manila and buried in an unmarked grave.

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    Reading and studying this novel by our National Hero is part of the curriculum in high school and sometimes also in college. Required or not, I actually liked this novel. It somewhat opened my eyes on the reality and gravity of the cruelty of the Spaniards and their cultural contributions during their colonial period here in the Philippines (333 years).
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    Rizal's legendary (in the Philipines) love story and revolutionary precursor of his eventual fate.Read Aug 2005

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