Contributions of Jos

1.What was the condition of our country during Rizal’s time in terms of: a.Socio-cultural b.Political
a.In the time of Rizal, the entire Philippines was under the Spanish colonization. where in, the government is more likely controlled by priest rather than officials. rebellion was still in rampage, there was still a large resistance against the Spaniards. Filipinos or “Indios”, as we are been called, were put into slavery and the exploitation of resources was at large. b.The political situation in Rizal’s time was a great government but they do abuse the Filipinos that are their attendant, the entire Philippines was under the Spanish colonization. Where in, the government is more likely controlled by priest rather than officials. Rebellion was still in rampage, there was still a large resistance against the Spaniards. Filipinos or “Indios”, as we are been called, were put into slavery and the exploitation of resources was at large. The sinister shadows of Spain’s decadence darkened Philippine skies.

The Filipino people agonized beneath the yoke of Spanish misrule, for they were unfortunate victims of the evils of an unjust, bigoted, and deteriorating colonial administrating colonial power. Among these evils were as follows: 1. Instability of colonial administration, 2. corrupt officialdom, 3. no Philippine representation in the Spanish Cortes, 4. human rights denied to Filipinos, 5. no equality before the law, 6. maladministration of justice, 7. racial discrimination, 8. frailocracy, 9. forced labor, 10. haciendas owned by the friars, and 11. the Guardia civil. 2.What were the challenges encountered by Rizal during his writing of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo? Rizal had problems with the authorities due to their reception of the book. As said by Rizal in a letter to his friend Ferdinand Blumentritt on 5 September 1887: “My book has raised a great deal of uproar; everybody is asking me about it. They would like to anathematize (excommunicate) me…. They take me for a German spy, agent of Bismarck (Otto von Bismarck), Protestant, freemason, witch, a half-damned soul, etc. Thus I prefer to stay at home. The civil guards firmly believe in all that and they whisper that I am sketching plans. The corporal (native of Madrid) believes that I hold a foreign passport and that I take a walk at night….”

In other words, Rizal was accused of being a subversive because of the content of the book. Governor-General Emilio Terrero confronted him with this charge, but when Rizal defended himself and gave him the book to read, he accepted Rizal’s statement that the book was merely an honest presentation of the country’s situation and not a call to revolution. However, the Archbishop of Manila and other friars remained prejudiced against the book, and it was eventually banned. Despite Rizal’s clearly expressed reluctance for revolution, his Noli Me Tangere and later its sequel, El Filibusterismo, inspired revolutionaries in their cause.

Source: (2011, 08). Jose Rizal and the Revolution. StudyMode.com. Retrieved 08, 2011, from http://www.studymode.com/essays/Jose-Rizal-And-The-Revolution-761060.html