Mantua, Dianne Antonette
ODNS-1D
M4 LESSON 2 WHILE TASK
Choose three El Filibusterismo characters from the list below and answer the following.
A. What happened to them at the end of the novel? 2-3 sentences
1. Simoun
Based on the El Filibusterismo lecture video, Simoun was later on identified by Padre Salvi through the
hand writing that was with the bomb and he was surprised that it was Crisostomo Ibarra. He then
reveals that Crisostomo Ibarra and Simoun is just the same. Simoun became a fugitive and ran to the
forest where he met Padre Florentino. Simoun was shot by a Guardia Civil and fortunately, he did not
die instantly. He died because of a poison in a vial he was carrying, he drunk it after confessing to Padre
Florentino about his identity and his goals.
2. Basilio
Based on the El Filibusterismo lecture video, Basilio was imprisoned and had to spend more days
converted into months in prison because he was accused that he has an involvement with the uprising
posters that was posted by the students. Basilio still has an inhibition about the revolution because he is
the cause behind the foiling of the revolt plan by Simon because his best friend Isagani take the lamp
and throw into the river. Hence, at the end of the novel, Basilio became fugitive, he flees from the scene
and run to another province.
3. Cabesang Tales
The novel El Filibusterismo ends with Tales turning into a fugitive, a robber or a criminal. Cabesang tales
and those people who joined him invade the city of Santa Mesa. He was killed by his son, Tano without
knowing that it was his father.
http://rizalville.com/character-cabesang-tales
B. Relate them to real life events during the Spanish occupation. (What do they represent?) At least 5
sentences
1. Simoun
Simoun represent the Philippine revolution that happened during Spanish colonization because in the
novel of El fili busterismo, Simoun secretly plan a revolution to get revenge upon the Spanish
government for all the wrongdoings that they have done towards Filipino. This is what the character of
Simoun pinpoints most which is to revolt but his plan was not deemed successful at the end. It looks like
what happened during Spanish colonization that Andres Bonifacio, a self-thought warehouse clerk,
arranged a secret revolutionary society, the Katipunan in which the Spaniards also found its existence
causing Bonifacio to immediately give a call for armed rebellion. The Spanish at that point captured
Rizal, who had advocated change yet never condoned the revolution.
2. Basilio
Basilio represent the red tagging during the Spanish occupation. Basilio was accused in the involvement
of subversive posters that was posted by the students in their school containing threats, and other such
grave writings. This act was blamed on Basilio that’s why he was arrested. But after a month in jail, he
was freed because he was not guilty, and they knew that Basilio was innocent. Like in Spanish
colonization where Rizal was published the novel of El Fili and make a propaganda movement in order to
destroy or subvert the system of the Spanish government, that’s why the novels are being ban.
3. Cabesang Tales
Cabesang Tales represent the event in Spanish colonization which is the Agrarian trouble because he is a
farmer that also experienced the injustice of the Spanish government in their own land that caused him
to become a rebel. During the Spanish colonization, Rizal’s family were dispossessed of their territories
in a claim with the Dominican Order during the agrarian conflict in Calamba and his father Don Francisco
Mercado refused to pay the land rents because the hacienda management consistently raised the
expense of the rental. The story of Cabesang Tales in the novel of El Filibusterismo originated from the
real encounters of Rizal’s family and relatives. The administrator of the estate of the Order requested for
a yearly rental from Tales since the last has involved and acquires from the ministers’ property. Tales
lost his patience when rental keeps on increasing every year accompanied by threats of “dispossession.”
At the end, he refuses to pay the rent, demands that he lawfully owns the land.
