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CHARACTER ANALYSIS

Presentation of Idea expressed


Character Description/Role Symbolism Symbolism and through the
other explanation character

Elias He is Ibarra's Rizal represented the Without freedom, The solution to the
mysterious friend, a Filipino masses in the there is no light... You defects of the Spanish
master boater, also a novel through him. As see nothing of the colonial system in the
fugitive. He was the symbol of the struggle that is being Philippines can be
referred to at one common people, Elias prepared, or the cloud gleaned from the
point as "the pilot." He did everything to on the horizon. The exchange of ideas
wants to revolutionize vindicate them from struggle begins in the between Elias and
his country. He came the injustices suffered field of ideas, but will Ibarra. Rizal himself
from the family which from the Spaniards. descend into the however, was not very
the Ibarra clan He believes that arena, and strain with clear on what to do.
downtrodden for justice can be blood. I hear the voice He was not certain of
generations. In the obtained only through of God. Woe to those opting for a revolution.
past, Ibarra's revolution that reforms who will resist Him! On the other hand, he
grandfather simply won't do. For them, history has made it clear and plain
condemned his He symbolizes the not been written. the threat of a
grandfather of burning very root of the Our people slept for possible outbreak of a
a warehouse, leading Filipino culture before centuries, but one day revolution, should
to the misfortunes of the coming of the the lightning struck radical reforms not be
Elias' family. Spaniards, which and its very act of instituted in the colony
remained strong and destroying, it called by the Spanish
unbroken by the forth life. Since then, government.
Spanish culture. Elias new tendencies work
can be a symbol for on our spirits, and
Andres Bonifacio. these tendencies, now
scattered, will one day
unite under the
guidance of God. God
has not failed other
peoples; He will not
fail ours; their cause is
the cause of
freedom!
- Elias who appeared
to be the voice of the
revolution believed
that reforms to obtain
justice were not
possible. This was his
response to Ibarra
when the latter
convinced him to trust
the government and
the need of the light of
education.

Do you call those


external practices
faith, or the commerce
in scapulars, religion;
or the stories of
miracles and other
fairy tales that we
hear everyday,
truth? ... A God did
not have to let Himself
be crucified for this,
nor we assume the
obligation of eternal
gratitude; superstition
existed long before
this; all that was
needed to perfect it
and raise the price of
merchandise. You will
tell me that imperfect
as our present religion
may be, it is
preferable to one we
had before; I believe
this and I agree with
you, but it is too
expensive, because in
return for it we have
renounced our
national identity, and
our independence; in
return for it we have
given it to its priests
our best towns and
our fields, and we are
still giving our savings
for the purchase of
religious objects... I
admit a genuine faith
and a true love of
humanity guided
those first
missionaries who
came to our shores; I
recognize our debt of
gratitude to those
noble-hearted men ....
But because the
forerunners were
virtuous, are we to
submit to the abuses
of their degenerate
descendants?
---This is what Elias
had rebutted Ibarra
when the latter told
Elias that the people
owed the friars a debt
of gratitude for giving
them the Catholic faith
and for protection
them against the
tyranny of civil
authorities.
Presentation of Idea expressed
Character Description/Role Symbolism Symbolism and through the
other explanation character

Tasyo The educated The character is Rizal attempted to


inhabitants of San based on Rizal's older show us that
Diego think of him as brother, Paciano. He reciprocal inhibition or
a philosopher so they embodies the sublimation or
labelled him as intelligent people, who resorting to other
Pilosopo Tasyo, but never left the country activities to forget
the ill-learned ones but instead educated unpleasant
call him crazy. This themselves in a experiences is the
character was named religious institution. common refuge of
after philosopher Don intelligent people.
Anastacio Toribio, a Pilosopo Tasyo Repressing his
mentor of Rizal. typifies the Filipino personal problems
He is portrayed in the who is caught through reading was
novel as the between two disparate the only way Tasyo
pessimistic and the cultures, the East and could preserve the
cynical. the West. As a young appearance of sanity
He is an old man who man, he studied and blend in with the
received an excellent philosophy and was a "normal" world. The
education in his youth bright student. In fact, irony is, the more
but was persuaded too bright for his learned he was, the
into discontinuing his mother's comfort. farther he moved
studies, which he was Fearing that Tasyo away from what is
told would lead him might become too perceived to be sane.
away from his faith. absorbed in his
He was seeking for studies and, therefore,
reforms from the forget God, his mother
government, and he told him to make a
expresses his ideals choice: be a priest or
in paper written in a leave school. He
cryptographic chose the latter, being
alphabet similar from an obedient son, and
hieroglyphs hoping also because he was
"that the future in love. He got
generations may be married but was,
able to decipher it" unfortunately,
and realize the abuse widowed and
and oppression done orphaned in less than
by the conquerors. a year. Frustration,
loneliness, and
perhaps
disenchantment with
the colonial
establishment he
previously embraced
drove him to seek
solace in his books, in
the cockpits, and in a
life of sheer idleness.
Eventually, although
born wealthy, his
fortunes dwindled. An
old man when we
meet him in Noli, he is
touched with benign
lunacy. But while the
people of San Diego
make fun of his odd
ideas, such as his
theories on the
doctrine of Purgatory,
there is method to his
madness.

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