In his novels Rizal’s female characters appear more as stereotypes than archetypes in several broad categories: the good mother (Narcisa), the virgin (Maria Clara, Juli, possibly Paulita Gomez), the harridan (the commandant’s wife), the social or religious fanatic (Doña Victorina and Doña Patroncino), for example.
Q. What is the impact of Noli Me Tangere to the Spanish government and officials?
The book indirectly influenced the Philippine Revolution of independence from Spain which was also the plan of Andres Bonifacio that time, along with Rizal, they advocated direct representation to the Spanish government and an overall larger role for the Philippines within Spain’s political affairs.
Q. What are the social and political issues portrayed in the Noli Me Tangere?
One of the primary ways characters in Noli Me Tangere are disempowered is through isolation: political isolation, religious isolation, or intellectual isolation. Politically, all of the characters are isolated from Spain, the governing body that controls the Philippines.
Q. How is freedom portrayed in Noli Me Tangere?
Freedom is having the authority to act or speak it is where you can change without constraint. It is being free to do what you want without punishing you for it, you are free to voice out your thoughts and seek for what is right.
Q. What is the lesson of Noli Me Tangere?
The theme of the novel is to promote nationalism and to accept change in ourselves is still applies to us today. We must patronize our country by respecting the law, promoting Philippine culture, and realizing the true goal of the country by helping each other towards the improvement of the country.
Q. What is the importance of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo?
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo have similarities in terms of aim and purpose. Both aim to enlighten the Filipinos on what is happening in the country. They want the people to fight for their country and have the total freedom.
Q. What are the major differences between Noli Me Tangere as compared to El Filibusterismo?
Noli is a love story or a romantic novel, dedicated to our motherland while El fili is a political novel associated with revenge and anger and is dedicated to GOMBURZA. The first is more on action and motion, the latter is thoughtful, discursive and dialectal.
Q. What does Isagani symbolize?
With his idealism, he clashes with the cynical Simoun. Isagani is the symbol of the youth whose love for the country is great to the point of being branded as idealistic.
Q. Who ordered that the body of Don Rafael be removed from the cemetery?
He was an enemy of Don Rafael Ibarra, Crisóstomo Ibarra’s father; Don Rafael refuses to conform to the friars’ power. After Rafael’s death in jail, Padre Dámaso ordered his corpse exhumed and transferred to the Chinese cemetery, which was reserved for “heathens”.
