NOLI ME TANGERE

EL FILIBUSTERISMO
M A J O R C H A R A C T E R S

Simoun
Crisostomo Ibarra Crisóstomo Ibarra in disguise,
presumed dead at the end of Noli
Me Tángere. Ibarra has returned as
Crisostomo Ibarra, He the wealthy jeweler Simoun. he
has a liberal mind. secretly plans a violent revolution in
Outspoken and order to avenge himself for his
idealistic Patient and misfortunes as Crisóstomo Ibarra, as
serious man He well as hasten Elias' reformist goals
becomes very violent
and impulsive when he Simoun represents the
provoked. Ibarra as revolutionaries during that time who
Rizal’s reflection of supported the idea of holding
bloody revolt against the Spanish
himself. He symbolizes
government. His death in El
the idealism of the Filibusterismo tells readers that
privileged youth Rizal does not support the armed
revolution.

María Clara de los Santos Basilio

Basilio is on of Sisa and
another character from Noli
Maria Clara Religious woman She portrayed as Me Tángere. In the events of
a faithful sweetheart, a good friend and an El fili, he is an aspiring and so
obedient daughter. She had childish far successful physician on
his last year at university and
simplicity. She gets easily nervous. Her was waiting for his.
character is related to Rizal’s childhood
sweetheart, Leonor Rivera. He represents the young
educated Filipinos who are
apathetic to the needs of the
She symbolizes the purity and innocence of a society. Juli's death makes
sheltered native woman. him decide to join Simoun's
troop

Padre Damaso Isagani Isagani is Basilio's friend. He is

described as a poet, taller and
more robust than Basilio
although younger. He is the
Padre Damaso Talkative and nephew of Padre Florentino
cruel priest. He raped Doña and the lover of Paulita Gomez.
Once a person full of hope and
Pia, Maria Clara’s mother He
aspirations for his country, he
continually antagonizes was disheartened and let go of
Ibarra and prevents his his ideals in favor of personal
marriage to Maria Clara gains.

He symbolizes the Spanish He symbolizes the youth who,

friars of Rizal’s time. despite their being very
aggressive and idealistic,
cannot be relied on in times of
adversity

Kapitan Tiago Padre Florentino

Isagani's uncle and a retired
priest. Florentino was the son
of a wealthy and influential
Don Santiago de los Santos, known political Manila family. He entered the
title Kapitán Tiago, is said to be the richest priesthood at the insistence of
man in the region of Binondo and possessed his mother. As a result he had
to break an affair with a
real properties in Pampanga and Laguna de woman he loved, and in
Baý. Kapitan Tiago, He is said to be a good despair devoted himself
Catholic, friend of the Spanish government. instead to his parish.

He is a retired scholarly and

He symbolizes the rich Filipinos who oppress patriotic Filipino priest. He
their fellow countrymen. believes that the Philippines
will have its freedom

Doña Victorina Padre Bernando Salvi

Doña Victorina, is an the former parish priest of San
ambitious Filipina who Diego in Noli Me Tángere, and
classifies herself as a now the director and chaplain of
Spaniard and mimics the Santa Clara convent. The
Spanish ladies by epilogue of the Noli implies that
putting on heavy make- Salví regularly rapes María Clara
up. when he is present at the convent.
In El Fili, Padre Bernardo Salvi
Doña Victorina An Manipulates people to get what
ambitious Filipina. She he wants. He is described to be
symbolizes those who very thin and sickly. The
have a distorted view of Franciscan curate of San Diego,
their identity. Wife of secretly harboring lust for María
Don Tiburcio Clara.
 Sisa Don Custodio , a famous "contractor"
Sisa Is the deranged who was tasked by the
mother of Basilio and Captain-General to
Crispín. Described as develop the students
beautiful and young, association's proposal for
although she loves her an academy for the
children very much, she
teaching of Spanish, but
can not protect them from
the beatings of her was then also under
husband, Pedro. pressure from the priests
Personified the suffering of not to compromise their
the motherland. Named prerogatives as
after Rizal’s older sister, monopolizers of
Narcisa. instruction

Crispin Padre Irene

Crispín is Sisa's seven-year-old He is a kind friar who
son. An altar boy, he was is a friend of the
unjustly accused of stealing Filipino students. He
money from the church. After supports the students
failing to force Crispín to who appeal to the
return the money he allegedly government for an
stole, Father Salví and the academy of Spanish
head sacristan killed him. It is
language.
not directly stated that he was
killed, but a dream of Basilio's
suggests that Crispín died He embodies the
during his encounter with few Spaniards who
Padre Salví and his minion are sympathetic to
the Filipinos.

Basilio Kabesang Tales

Basilio is Sisa's 10-year-old
son. An acolyte tasked to
ring the church's bells for Kabesang Tales is th
the Angelus, he faced the Juli's father.The friars
dread of losing his dispossessed him of
younger brother and the his land; in real life,
Rizal's father met the
descent of his mother into
same fate.
insanity.

They represented the

innocent who were He symbolizes the natives and farmers whose
wrongly accused of crimes lands were seized by the friars.
they did not commit. His story presents the cause of the revolution.

NOLI ME TANGERE
EL FILIBUSTERISMO
De Rueda, Jeremy C.
GEM 001-MART22S1 - THE LIFE AND WORKS OF DR. JOSE RIZAL