El Filibusterismo Essay

bakers dozen years after leaving the Philippines, Crisostomo Ibarra returns as Simoun, a rich jeweler sporting a whiskers and blue-tinted glasses, and a confidant of the Captain-General. He cynically sides with the upper classes, encouraging them to commit abuses against the masses to encourage the latter(prenominal) to revolt against the oppressive Spanish colonial regime. His two reasons for instigating a renewal are at first, to save scotcha Clara from the convent and second, to get rid of ills and evils of Philippine society. His true identity is discovered by a outright grown-up Basilio while visiting the grave of his mother, Sisa, as Simoun was digging near the grave site for his buried treasures. Simoun spares Basilios life and asks him to join in his planned revolution against the government, egging him on by bringing up the tragic misfortunes of the latters family. Basilio declines the offer as he still hopes that the countrys check will improve. Basilio, at this poin t, is a graduating medical student at the Ateneo Municipal. After the death of his mother, Sisa, and the disappearance of his younger brother, Crispn, Basilio heeded the advice of the dying boatman, Elas, and traveled to Manila to study.Basilio was adopted by Captain Tiago after Mara Clara entered the convent. Simoun, for his part, keeps in close contact with the bandit group of Kabesang Tales, a former cabeza de barangay who suffered misfortunes at the pass on of the friars. He was forced to give everything he had owned to the greedy, unscrupulous Spanish friars and the Church. Before joining the bandits, Tales took Simouns revolver while Simoun was staying at his house for the night. As payment, Tales leaves a locket that once belonged to Mara Clara. To get on strengthen the revolution, Simoun has Quiroga, a Chinese man hoping to be appointed consul to the Philippines, smuggle weapons into the country using Quirogas bazaar as a front. Simoun wishes to attack during a stage play with all of his enemies in attendance. He, however, shortly aborts the attack when he learns from Basilio that Mara Clara had died earlier that day in the convent. A few days after the mock celebration by the students, the people are agitated when disturbing posters are pitch displayed around the city.The authorities accuse the students present at the pancitera of agitation and disturbing peace and has them arrested. Basilio, although non present at the mock celebration, isalso arrested. Captain Tiago dies after learning of the incident. But before he dies he signs a will. His will originally states that Basilio should inherit all his property but due to this counterfeit his property is given in parts, one to Santa Clara, one for the archbishop, one for the Pope, and one for the religious orders leaving postal code for Basilio to be inherited. Basilio is left in prison as the other students are released. Basilio is soon released with the help of Simoun. Basilio, now a changed m an, and after hearing about Juls suicide, finally joins Simouns revolution. Simoun then tells Basilio his plan at the wedding of Paulita Gmez and Juanito, Basilios hunch-backed classmate. His plan was to conceal an explosive which contains nitroglycerin inside a pomegranate-styled kerosine lamp that Simoun will give to the newlyweds as a gift during the wedding reception. According to Simoun, the lamp will stay illume for only 20 minutes before it flickers if someone attempts to turn the wick, it will explode and kill everyone of the essence(p) members of civil society and the Church hierarchyinside the house.Basilio has a change of heart and attempts to warn Isagani, his comrade and the former boyfriend of Paulita. Simoun leaves the reception early as planned and leaves a none behind initially thinking that it was simply a bad joke, Father Salv recognizes the drawwriting and confirms that it was indeed Ibarras. As people get off to panic, the lamp flickers. Father Irene tries to turn the wick up when Isagani, due to his undying love for Paulita, bursts in the room and throws the lamp into the river, sabotaging Simouns plans. He escapes by diving into the river as guards chase after him. He later regrets his impulsive action because he had contradicted his own belief that he loved his nation more than Paulita and that the explosion and revolution could have fulfilled his ideals for Filipino society. Simoun, now unmasked as the perpetrator of the attempted arson and failed revolution, becomes a fugitive. wound and exhausted after he was shot by the pursuing Guardia Civil, he seeks shelter at the inhabitation of Father Florentino, Isaganis uncle, and comes under the care of doctor Tiburcio de Espadaa, Doa Victorinas husband, who was also cover at the house. Simoun takes poison in order for him not to be captured alive. Before he dies, he reveals his square identity to Florentino while they exchange thoughts about the failure of his revolution and why G od forsook him, when all he wanted was to avenge the people important to him that were wronged, such as Elias,Maria Clara and his father, Don Rafael. Florentino opines that God did not forsake him and that his plans were not for the greater good but for personal gain. Simoun, finally accepting Florentinos explanation, squeezes his hand and dies. Florentino then takes Simouns remaining jewels and throws them into the Pacific Ocean with the corals hoping that they would not be used by the greedy, and that when the fourth dimension came that it would be used for the greater good.