Biarritz Vacation &

Romance with Nelly

Boustead
• Eduardo Boustead, wife
and two charming
daughters

• Rizal had romance with

Nelly.
Scenic
Beaches
• It is filled with scenic beaches with tourists
from all parts of the world

• This place helped him to forget the bitter

memories of Madrid.

• His health improved with remarkable

swiftness in this place.
• The prettier and younger daughter of Eduardo
Boustead

• He found her to be a real Filipina, highly

intelligent, vivacious in temperament and morally
upright.

• With this romantic relationship, he felt

invigorated to write and finish his novel El
Fibusterismo.
• Rizal’s friend who advised him not to
marry Nelly.
• He previously loved and
lost Nelly.
• He encouraged him to woo
and marry Nelly.
It was not successful due to
2 reasons:
• He refused to give up his
Catholic faith and be
converted to
Protestantism as Nelly
demanded.
• Nelly’s mother did not
like him as a son-in-law.

They ended up being good

friends.
• He was Rizal’s
friend whom
he asked to
advance the
amount of the
1st class
steamer ticket
from Europe
to Hongkong.
Reform
Crusad
e
• He realized that Rizal’s collaboration
was essential because the reform was
declining.
• With that, his help was very much needed because Rizal was
one of the main contributors in La Solidaridad.
• He wrote Rizal a letter telling him to put aside
any of his resentments and continue their
mission in the reform.
Rizal wrote
back to del
Pilar and
told him 3
reasons:
1. He needed time to work on his book.

2. He wanted other Filipinos to work too.

3. It was better if del Pilar would be the

only one who would lead the reform
leaving them both free and with the
advantage of del Pilar.
• It was completed on May 30,
1981.
• It was more ardor than the Noli.
……Published in Ghent
• Rizal left
Brussels for
Ghent.
• A famous university city in Belgium.
• Reasons for moving to Ghent:

• The cost of printing in Ghent was

cheaper than in Brussels
• To escape from the enticing attraction
to Petite Suzanne
•A publisher who was willing to
print Rizal’s book on installment
basis.
• Rizal had received some money from Basa and P200
from Rodriguez Arias for the copies of Morga’s
Sucesos sold in Manila.
• Rizal wrote a
letter to Basa
from Ghent
stating his
poor situation
or lifestyle
• Printing had to be suspended because Rizal could no

longer give the necessary funds to the printer.

• Rizal wrote to Basa in Hong Kong for money to be

used in the publication of his book.

•He immediately sent Rizal the
necessary funds for the publication
of the book.

• With his financial aid, the printing

of Fili was resumed.
• El Filibusterismo came off the

press.
• Rizal immediately sent two
printed copies to Hong Kong one
for Basa and the other for Sixto
Lopez.
• Valentin Ventura received the
original manuscript and
• A Barcelona

newspaper where the

members of the
Filipino colony
published a tribute
eulogizing the novel’s
original style:
“comparable to the
sublime Alexander
Dumas” and “a model
and a precious jewel
• the liberal Madrid

newspaper serialized
the novel in its issues
of October, 1891
• All copies of the first
edition (Ghent
edition) of El
Filibusterismo were
placed in wooden
boxes and shipped
to Hong Kong.
• The original manuscript of El Filibusterismo
consists of 279 pages of long sheets
preserved in the Filipiniana Division of the
Bureau of Public Libraries.

• In the Foreword, Rizal was not frightened by the

government of the Philippines. He tells the people in
the foreword that instead of fleeing from the feared
reality, they should face it.
• Ferdinand Blumentritt, wrote on the page of El
Filibusterismo. He stated that a rebel is trying to
convince every Filipino that they will not obtain
salvation unless they separate from the country.
• Rizal did not tolerate the abusive powers of the
Spanish authorities. He wanted the Filipino citizens to
open their eyes to see the wrongs that has been done
•The hero is Simoun, who is Crisostomo Ibarra of Noli Me
Tangere
He escaped from the soldiers at Laguna de Bay with the help
of Elias.
•He returns to the Philippines as a rich jeweler where he freely
moved around.
Although he is a friend of Spain, he had a desire to take his
revenge against the Spanish authorities.
•He wished to rescue Maria Clara but he found out later that
she was already dead.
•Simoun continues his plot against the Spanish but failed and
in order to escape the arrest, he took poison and died.
•Like in Noli Me Tangere, the characters in El Filibusterismo
were drawn by Rizal in real life.
•Noli Me Tangere is a romantic novel, work of the heart, and a
book of feeling while El Filibusterismo is a political novel work
of the head, and book of thought.
•September 22, 1891- Rizal wrote to Blumentritt
that he is planning to write a third novel and
ethics will play the principal role. Rizal will now
be exposing the habits and customs of the
Philippines.
• It is said that Rizal was fortunate not to have finished
the novel for it would have caused greater scandal
than his previous novels.
• Rizal was not afraid to show the evil that took part in
the Philippines.
• Makamisa – novel in tagalog; written in sarcastic style with
only two chapters completed.
• Dapitan- written in Spanish; depicted his town life and
customs during his exile in Dapitan
• A novel in Spanish about the life in Pili, a town in Laguna
• A novel about Cristobal a youthful Filipino student who has
returned from Europe.
• Rizal based his novels in his own experience and in what he
witnessed in the Philippines.
Ophthalmic Surgeon In
Hong Kong
From Ghent
 ALL
ABOARD!!!!!!!
To Paris
•Rizal left Ghent for Paris.
• Bound to Hongkong
• His trip was delightful.
• He was the only Asian among them.
• He befriended many missionaries.
• He also experienced an incident wherein the
German ladies thought that he didn’t know
how to understand and speak in English.
When he heard the conversation of the
ladies, he proved to them that he understand
German language by closing the door when
the wind blew hard.
• Where he opened his medical clinic
• He practiced his profession anywhere to
serve other people.
• The brother-in-law of
Rizal
• Even though Rizal is
away from his
family, he was still
connected with the
family he left in
Calamba.
• Hidalgo’s letter
expressed despair
and sorrow of the
Rizal Family.
• Christmas of 1981
• His mother is almost blind.
• One of the happiest yuletide celebrations in
Rizal’s life.
• January 31, 1982, when he wrote to
Blumentritt about his pleasant life in
Hongkong.

• Rizal’s family was tied and very close to

each other making Rizal as a family
centered man.
• Rizal’s friend in Hongkong who
helped him to build up his own
clientele.
• He turned over to Rizal many eye
cases.
• He earned the trust of a
Portuguese due to his integrity
and passion towards his work.
• He also became a general practitioner.
• Mr. Boustead, Nelly’s Father praised him
for practicing his medical profession.
• Rizal possessed the qualities of a great
ophthalmic surgeon.
• Dr. Germiniano de Ocampo, a
distinguished ophthalmic surgeon was
deeply impressed to Rizal.
• Establishment of a Filipino colony
• Planning to move landless Filipinos to a ‘New
Calamba’ to seek protection and welfare
• March 7, 1892 – Journey to Sandakan to negotiate
with the British authorities regarding project
• The Borneo Colonization Project showed Rizal’s choice to
journey with the hope of finding a safe place for the Filipinos in
order to recover their lost identity and establish strong unity
among the Filipinos. This trait of Rizal showed his hunger
for identity and wholeness of his nation.
• Spanish Consul General
• Rejected Rizal’s letters and proposals
1st letter – Rizal offered his cooperation to the Spanish
government
2nd letter – Rizal asked to permit landless Filipinos to
establish themselves in Borneo

• He did not approve of Filipino immigration because of lack of

laborers
• He filed a secret case against Rizal ‘for anti-religious and
anti-patriotic protest’ (a trap for Rizal)
 • Ang Mga Karapatan ng Tao
• A la Nacion Española – appeal to Spain to amend the wrong
deeds done to Calamba tenants
• Sa Mga Kababayan – Calamba agrarian situation
• Articles in The Hongkong Newspaper
• March 2, 1892 – Una Visita a la Victoria Gaol (Spanish prison
system vs. British prison system
• Colonisation du British North Borneo par de Familles de Iles
Philippines (French)
• Proyecto de Colonizacion del British North Borneo por los
Filipinos (Spanish)
• June 1892 – La Mano Roja (Red Hand)
= frequent outbreaks of intentional fires in
Manila
1892, Hongkong – Constitution of La Liga Filipina (an
association of patriotic Filipinos for civic purposes
Hong Kong
1st letter – To Parents, Brethren and
Friends
• ‘…outcome judges things according to
consequences.’
• ‘…duty urged me. If I die doing it, it won’t matter.’
• ‘I don not regret what I have done.’
• ‘A man ought to die for duty and his principles.’
• ‘…sacrifice to secure justice and peace for you.’
• I shall die happy in the thought that my death will
end all your troubles.’
• 2nd letter – To the Filipinos

• ‘…hardly anybody understands what’s in my heart.’

• ‘I cannot live on seeing so many suffer.’
• ‘…duties of conscience…’
• ‘I am all my parents have, but our country has many more sons
who can take my place.’
• ‘What matters death, if one dies for what one loves, for native
land and beings held dear?’
• ‘Always have I loved our unhappy land, …and I shall continue
loving it till my last moment…’
Jose Protacio Mercado Alonzo
Y Realonda Rizal
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