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Compare and Contrast: Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo

Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo are two novels written by Jose Rizal that are similar in their author and in depicting the abuse of Filipinos by Spaniards and the Catholic church. However, they differ in their titles, genres, dedications, and characters. Noli Me Tangere is a romantic love story dedicated to the Philippines, while El Filibusterismo is a political novel associated with revenge and dedicated to GOMBURZA. The novels also show different sides of the character Crisostomo Ibarra.

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Compare and Contrast: Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo

Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo are two novels written by Jose Rizal that are similar in their author and in depicting the abuse of Filipinos by Spaniards and the Catholic church. However, they differ in their titles, genres, dedications, and characters. Noli Me Tangere is a romantic love story dedicated to the Philippines, while El Filibusterismo is a political novel associated with revenge and dedicated to GOMBURZA. The novels also show different sides of the character Crisostomo Ibarra.

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Compare and Contrast: Noli Me Tangere and

El Filibusterismo

Noli Me Tangere and El filibusterismo are the two marked novels of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal
which are similar and different in some ways. The two novels are similar primarily in their author, Rizal.
Another, in a way that they both talk about how Spaniards abused the Filipinos, the abuse of the church of
their power and the discrimination on Filipinos. Both Noli and El Fili shows strong anti-Clerical and even
anti-Catholic color. They convey one story because the latter is published in sequel or continuation.
However, they are different in many cases. Firstly Noli Metangere, Latin title meaning “touch me not” refers
to the letter of John 20:17 in King James version of the Bible as Mary Magdalene tried to touch the newly
risen Jesus, He said "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father". Meanwhile, El filibusterismo is
Spanish title which is known in english as The Reign of Greed. 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. Noli showed a sofspoken, patient, compassionate and idealistic Crisostomo Ibarra while El Fili
featured a different Ibarra who portrayed the angry and vengeful side of him and disguised himself as the
wealthy jeweller named Simoun.Noli is written in the idea that would expose the ills of Philippine society
after Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. In general Noli is more on the reformist side of Rizal
while El fili is on his revolutionist.

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