ANATOMY OF THE

NICK JOAQUINANTI-HERO

NICOLETA, JENNYIV-23 SOCIAL

SCIENCE

TWO VIEWS ON RIZAL

MA. LEON GUERRERO

ANTE RADAIC

GUERRERO AUTHOR RADAIC

The Fir st Filipino

WORK Rizal Fr om Wit hin

Similar it y Wit h Rizal

REASON ON WRI TI NG

Similar it y Wit h Rizal

Rizal’s Pr ivileged Lif e

FOCUS OF STUDY

Psychoanalyt ic St udy

“Paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all, but remark all these

roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me.”

- Oliver Cromwell

GuERRERO’S RIZAL- Rizal is "the very embodiment of the

intelligentsia and the petite bourgeoisie“.- Rizal's father became one of the town's wealthiest men, the first to build a stone

house and buy another, keep a carriage, own a library, and send his children

to school in Manila.

Rizal’s family properties

- Even if born in penury and a peasant, he would still have made a mark.

"His character, in a different environment, with a different experience of the world, might

have made him another Bonifacio.“-Guerrero

A RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARY

“Assimilation' has been rejected as a vain hope. 'Separatism,' or in plainer words, independence, has been advocated

almost openly. Rizal in the Fili is no longer the loyal reformer; he is the 'subversive' separatist, making so little effort of

concealment that he arrogantly announces his purpose in the very title of his novel,

which means 'subversion.' No solution except independence!”

-Guerrero

But on the latter part of the novel, he withdraws what his purpose is.

Father Florentino is made to deny in the final apostrophe of the novel that freedom must

be won at the point of the sword: "What is the use of independence if the slaves of

today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?"

"There can be no argument that he was against Bonifacio's Revolution. Not only had

he offered his 'unconditional' services to help suppress it but he had indicted a

manifesto condemning the Revolution." He called the idea of revolution "highly

absurd”.”

-Guerrero

- For Guerrero, Rizal was the first Filipino who fought for the Philippines, proclaiming that

he was and is a Filipino.- But for Joaquin, the other local heroes, those

who are before Rizal rose up, already fought as a Filipinos for the benefit of the whole

archipelago.

"To be human is to feel inferior and to aspire to situations of superiority." 

- Alfred Adler

RADAIC’S RIZALRizal is "a mystery still to be revealed”.Suspects that Rizal suffered from complexes of

inferiority.

"While gazing at pictures of that giant of small and delicate body, many Filipinos must have felt as I did when I first came to know about him, a few years ago, in Europe -- that behind the well-buttoned frock coat was hidden a deep and delicate human problem." - Radaic

“You can laugh and

make fun of me, but

someday people will

keep statues of me.”

-Rizal

- He experienced being bullied in the school due to his frail body yet he continued to rise over those blues.

- Rizal never saw his weakness as a hindrance to what he wanted to achieved.

“Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of

sacrifice.”-Jose Rizal

THE END