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    The document discusses the themes and conflicts in Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal. The main themes are power and religion. Power struggles occur between the church and government as they try to exert control over each other and the people. Religion is complex, as Catholicism is official but clergy are not truly devoted and abuse their power. The main conflict is between the protagonist Ibarra and Father Salví, as Ibarra seeks to reform society but faces opposition from the colonial authorities upholding the oppressive system. The work highlights the broader conflict of Spanish colonial rule over the Philippines.

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    The document discusses the themes and conflicts in Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal. The main themes are power and religion. Power struggles occur between the church and government as they try to exert control over each other and the people. Religion is complex, as Catholicism is official but clergy are not truly devoted and abuse their power. The main conflict is between the protagonist Ibarra and Father Salví, as Ibarra seeks to reform society but faces opposition from the colonial authorities upholding the oppressive system. The work highlights the broader conflict of Spanish colonial rule over the Philippines.

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    The document discusses the themes and conflicts in Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal. The main themes are power and religion. Power struggles occur between the church and government as they try to exert control over each other and the people. Religion is complex, as Catholicism is official but clergy are not truly devoted and abuse their power. The main conflict is between the protagonist Ibarra and Father Salví, as Ibarra seeks to reform society but faces opposition from the colonial authorities upholding the oppressive system. The work highlights the broader conflict of Spanish colonial rule over the Philippines.

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    1st Century

    Theme and Conflict


    Lorenz Pitogo
    Louise Anthone G. Cabrera

    Theme
    Power
    The Struggles for power to comprise most of the conflicts in Noli Me Tángere. Father Salví and
    the ensign each use the power to try to eclipse the other’s authority—for example, the ensign
    creates a curfew to prevent Father Salví to have a mass at night. It is the ordinary townspeople,
    however, who are affected in this fight for power—the utterly powerless young sextons are
    caught between the church’s demands that they stay at work late and the government’s demands
    that they not stay out past a certain hour at night. Abusing power are also rampant: Rafael Ibarra
    was slandered as “heretic and subversive” and died in prison because of religious ideals differed
    from those of the organized church, and his body was later exhumed from the cemetery at Father
    Dámaso’s order. Similarly, his son Crisostomo Ibarra was excommunicated because of Father
    Dámaso’s grudge against him, which made his engagement and his position in society.
    Throughout the novel, the church and the government were fighting for power as well.

    Religion
    Religion has many branches in Noli Me Tángere. Clearly, Catholicism is visible in the organized
    system of the church and its hierarchy. Yet even the clergy often do not truly believe in their
    religious ideals—Father Salví is lustful despite of him being a priest, and he seems to care about
    his position only because of the power it possesses. Similarly, the seemingly devout Captain
    Tiago cares about religion except of obtaining power, and he creates the image of being devout
    by paying others to pray for him. His belief system leans more towards polytheism, which is
    deeply contrary to Catholicism. Other figures, such as Elías and the elder Ibarra, hold strong
    Catholic convictions despite their opposition to the church and its demands. Rafael Ibarra
    opposes confession on an ethical level, while Elías is against the church hierarchy but believes
    strongly in God. Despite his loathing of the Spanish colonial system, Elías is grateful to the
    Spaniards for bringing Catholicism, which he believes as the truth, to the Philippines, and
    absolutely no character criticizes the Spanish for imposing their religion on others.

    Conflict
    The main conflict is between Ibarra and Father Salví. Ibarra is also in conflict with Spanish
    colonial society as he tries to reform Philippine society, though he is reluctant to realize the
    extent to which the dominant authorities oppose him.
    At the middle of Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) by Philippine national hero Dr. Jose Rizal is
    the conflict against Spanish colonialism. The Philippines, which is named after King Philip II of
    Spain, was ruled by the Spanish empire as a colony from 1565 until the Philippine Revolution
    ended this rule in 1898. For his part in the Philippine Revolution, Dr. Jose Rizal was convicted
    for rebellion, sedition, conspiracy, and His sentence was death by firing squad. Juan Crisostomo
    Ibarra, one of the main characters in Noli Me Tangere (which means Touch Me Not), came back
    to the Philippines after a seven-year absence studying in Europe. He is engaged to the other main
    character named Maria Clara, the beautiful daughter of Captain Tiago. With this effort, Rizal set
    out to write a novel that would expose the ills and problems of the Philippine society and
    Government. Similarly, it made a passionate love story set against the backdrop of the political
    conflict against a repressive government.

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