JOSE RIZAL :

WORKS AND W

RITINGS

Selected Letters And Essays

Selected Letters: Letter to his sister Trinidad

Trining› German women are serious, studious and

diligent

› not paying attention to clothes and jewels

› Dress simply and walking faster than men

Selected Letters: Letter to his sister Trinidad

Pangoy› home-loving

› love to cook

› music and drawing

Selected Letters: Letter to his sister Trinidad

Marie› active and masculine

› not afraid of men

› Concerned with substance not appearances

Selected Letters: Letter to his sister Trinidad

About the letter› Describe the characteristics of the typical

German woman

› Concern about the training of his sisters and to emulate the virtues of German woman

Selected Letters: To the young woman of Malolos

20 young women

February 22,1889

December 12,1888

Selected Letters: To the young woman of Malolos

Five major points› Filipino mothers should teach their children

the love of God, country and fellow men.› Filipino mothers should be glad and honored.› Filipino women should know how to protect

their dignity and honor.› Filipino women should retain their good racial

values, but should also educate themselves.› Faith is not only reciting prayers and wearing

religious pictures but also living a true Christian.

Selected Essays: Love of Country

Love› The most powerful force behind the most sublime

actions.› He speaks of the motherland whom some have

sacrificed their youth, their pleasures, others their blood; all have died bequeathing to their motherland, liberty and glory.

› Let us love our motherland always and let us wish nothing but her welfare.

› The dawn the prelude to happy and peaceful days because of true Christianity.

› In any decisions God’s law will always prevail.

Selected Essays: The Indolence of Filipinos(Sobre la Indolencia de los Filipinos)

July 15 to Sept. 15,1890

Longest essay Rizal wrote

Selected Essays: The Indolence of Filipinos(Sobre la Indolencia de los Filipinos)

Causes› Spanish government paralyzed or took over

farms/industry› Spaniards invaded Mindanao and Sulu led to

burning of Christian towns, depletion of Moro population and destruction of fields and industries

› Spanish greediness/rapacity

Selected Essays: The Philippines a Century Hence(Filipinas Dentro de Cien Anos

› Series of four(4) articles in La Soladaridad› To grant the reforms on the Philippines and if

it is not granted would lead violence› To attain freedom as a colony, but in good

terms› After the ousting of the Spaniards, power

would come and take the Philippines› Spain, must we someday tell the Philippines

that thou has no ear for woes and that if she wishes to be saved, she must redeem herself.