RIZAL

AND HIS
CONTEMPORARIES
BSEE 34: SURVEY FOR PHILIPPINE
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
 PERIOD OF
ENLIGHTENMENT
(1872-1898)
The once religious spirit
transformed itself into
nationalism.
The Propaganda
Movement
 Propaganda
Movement
Spearheaded by Jose Rizal, Marcelo del Pilar, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Antonio
Luna, Mariano Ponce, Jose Ma. Panganiban, and Pedro Paterno.
 Objectives of

Propaganda
Movement
To get equal treatment for the Filipinos and the Spaniards under the law.

To make the Philippines a colony of Spain.

 Objectives of

Propaganda
Movement
To restore Filipino representation in the Spanish cortes.

To Filipinize the parishes.

 Objectives of

Propaganda
Movement
To give the Filipinos freedom of speech, of the press, assembly, and for redress
of grievances.
 Jose Rizal
Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado Alonzo y
Realonda

June 19, 1861 at Calamba, Laguna

Teodora Alonzo

Ateneo de Manila,

He started medicine at UST

He finished it at the Universidad Central de

Madrid
 Jose Rizal
He also studied at the University of Berlin,
Leipzig, and Hiedelberg.

He died in the hands of the Spaniards on

December 30, 1896.

Dimasalang and Laong Laan

Works and Writings
 Noli Me
El Filibusterismo
Tangere
 Sequel of NOLI.
 It gave the spirit to the
propaganda movement and  Exposed the evil in the
paved way to the revolution government and in the
against Spain church.
 Rizal exposed the evil in  Novel of politics
the Spanish-run
government.
 Mi Ultimo On the Indolence of
Adios the Filipinos
 Written at Fort Santiago
 An essay on the so-called
Filipino indolence and an
evaluation of the reasons
for such allegations
 The Philippines To the Filipino
within a Century
Youth
 An essay predicting the
increasing influence of the  Dedicated to the Filipino
US in the Philippines and youth studying at UST.
the decreasing interest of
the Europe here.
 The Council of the Beside the Pasig
Gods
River

 An allegorical play  Written by 14-year old

manifesting admiration for Rizal.
Cervantes
You asked Me for To the Flowers of
Verses Hiedelberg
 Notes on the Philippine
Events by Dr. Antonio de 1889
Morga

P. Jacinto: Memoirs of a
Student in Manila 1882

Diary of a Voyage to North

America