Noli is a love story or a romantic novel, dedicated to our motherland while El fili is a political novel associated with revenge and anger and is dedicated to GOMBURZA.
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Noli is more on action and motion, El Fill is thoughtful, discursive and dialectal.
El Filibusterismo is a sequel to Noli Me Tangere.
Noli Me Tangere” is translated “Touch Me Not” or “The Social Cancer,” while “El Filibusterismo” is translated “The Reign of Greed.”
Both novels were about politically and historically driven fictional Philippines during the Spanish colonial period inspired by the writer’s living conditions, views, and beliefs.
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Rizal named the work EI Filibusterismo, a term whose meaning has changed again and again.
The message of the novel is clear: the present system of governing the Philippines through corrupt and self-seeking officials, dominated by the friars and being submissive to their interests in one fashion or another, can only lead to disaster for Spain.
The French form “filibuster” is derived from the English word “flyboat” or the Dutch word “Flieboot”. These are small fast boats which the pirates used in the 7th century in the Caribbean.
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