Caraga state university
Ampayon, Butuan City 8600, Philippines
URL: www.carsu.edu.ph
Lesson 17
Rizal’s Nationalism and Patriotism
(based from his novels)
Nationalism and Patriotism sometimes interchanged since they
both show their love to their nation
According to Hans Kohn
✓Nationalism is an ideology based on the premise that the individual’s
loyalty and devotion to the nation-state surpass other individual or group
interests.
✓Nationalism desires unity by their way of a cultural
background, including language and heritage.
✓Patriotism shows love country and willingness to sacrifice
for it by their values and beliefs.
Nationalism and Patriotism sometimes interchanged since they both
show their love to their nation
According to George Orwell,
✓Nationalism is more on that one’s country is superior to
another
✓Patriotism is simply a feeling of admiration for a way of life.
Rizal’s Nationalism as felt on his
poems/essays/speeches
Through Education Our Motherland Receives Light.
Proved that he valued education so much that may give the
power of the country to survive from any forces in the
struggles of societal FREEDOM. Through education, it
creates the virtue of power to human race. This gives
SECURITY and PEACE to the motherland as the Filipinos
would learn the sciences and arts as the bases to calm down
the life of the society.
Rizal’s Nationalism as felt on his
poems/essays/speeches
To the Filipino Youth. This winning poem of Rizal is a
classic in Philippine literature for 2 reasons:
1) It was the first great poem in Spanish written by a
Filipino whose merit was recognized by Spanish literary
authorities
2) It expressed for the first time the nationalistic concept
that the Filipinos and not the foreigners are the hope of
the motherland.
Rizal’s Nationalism as felt on his
poems/essays/speeches
Love of Country. Written under his pen name Laong Laan in
Barcelona, Spain. Translated into Tagalog by Marcelo H. del
Pilar and published in Diariong Tagalog. On this peom, he
urged his fellow Filipinos abroad to love their motherland.
“…of all loves, the love of country is what produced the
greatest, the most heroic, the most disinterested”
Rizal’s Nationalism based from his novels
Noli Me Tangere. Dedicated to his motherland, the
Philippines. Getting attention of both Filipinos and
Spaniards to see the deplorable conditions of the Filipino
people from the Spanish tyranny. It was a way of exposing
corrupt Spaniards (officials and friars) who enriched
themselves while living in the country.
*See also the characters of the Noli and their representation in the society.
Rizal’s Nationalism based from his novels
Noli Me Tangere. On this novel, Rizal shown preparation of
how Filipinos can be step out from darkness. And it is
through education.
➢ Crisostomo failed to build school in the community for not supported by
Spanish officials and was supposed to be killed during the planning of the
location of the. school community.
➢ A school teacher was reprimanded by friar of teaching students to farming.
For the friars, only religious doctrines should be developed in the life of the
students.
*See also the characters of the Noli and their representation in the society.
Rizal’s Nationalism based from his novels
Rizal distinguished the true religion from the false, from the
superstitious, from that which traffics with the Sacred Word to
extract money, to make us believe in foolishness which
Catholicism would blush at if it had knowledge of it.
Moreover, he unveiled what lay hidden behind the deceptive
and brilliant words of our government. Rizal did not let his
fellowmen off the hook, though. He had also told our fellowmen
of our faults, our vices, our culpable and shameful apathy with
regards to these miseries. It may be noted that the facts Rizal had
related are all true and real. Therefore,
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Rizal’s Nationalism based from his novels
the Noli Me Tangere is not merely an attack on the Spanish
colonial regime. It is a charter of nationalism. It calls on the
Filipino to recover his self-confidence, to appreciate his own worth,
to return to the heritage of his ancestors, to assert himself as the
equal of the Spaniard.
Rizal’s Nationalism based from his novels
El Filibusterismo. A political novel which exposes a kind of
Spanish government to the society. A novel which could
interpret in asking REFORMS.
➢ Dedicated to GOMBURZA
➢ A sequel of the Noli
Rizal’s Nationalism based from his novels
El Filibusterismo. At the time that Simoun had worked out his
plan of fomenting revolution, Filipino students like Basilio and his
friends pressed for assimilation, the spread of the Spanish
language and the appeals for loyalty and confidence in the colonial
government. Simoun reacted vehemently to this program of
Hispanization that young students were advocating. For Simoun,
Hispanization is
➢ Death of the people
➢ Destruction of national identity
➢ Institutionalization of tyranny
Rizal’s Patriotism based from his novels
Noli Me Tangere. The character of Elias shown the
willingness of sacrificing himself for the benefits of the many.
Protecting Crisostomo for many times. This might had been
due to his beliefs that the redemption of the country depends
on the ilustrados.
➢ Elías discovers plots against Ibarra and does everything he can to thwart
them.
➢ Elias helps Crisostomo escape from the Guardia Civil.
Rizal’s Patriotism based from his novels
“ I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land! You
who have it to see, welcome it and forget not those who have fallen
during the night!”-Elias to Basilio (Noli Me Tangere)
Rizal’s Patriotism based from his novels
El Filibusterismo. Rizal advocated a revolution in effecting
reforms in Filipino society through Simoun.
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