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The Struggle Of Filipinos In The 19th And 21st Century

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Chronicled within the annals of history are the struggles of the Filipinos against curtailment of freedom throughout the 19th and 21st centuries. Hundreds of years ago, Spanish colonialism inhibited the rights and freedom of the destitute Filipinos. More than three centuries years ago, the Filipinos experienced the severest phase of their existence with the oppressive rule of the Westerners. During the 300-year rule of the Spaniards, the Filipinos were stripped of their freedom for self-expression, freedom for education and freedom for free will. They were beaten up for doing what was righteous, they were forced to pay tributes for kings they did not recognize, and they were forced to do tasks with nothing but severe lashes in their backs as payment for their hard labor. The Filipinos questioned the depraved treatment of the Spaniards, but they did not have the chance to protest against their detestable administration. After all, their crude bolos* and knives wouldn’t …show more content…

The weaving of the characters’ lives made the novel all the more interesting: a priest raped another priest’s child; a wife lost her sanity because of a crime blamed on her innocent husband; a young couple was torn apart because of a forced suicide; a wealthy man is held captive because of his indigenous race―all of this reflected the injustices faced by the Indios.* Whilst racism, religious corruption, and moral exploitation were the themes, Rizal inventively injected his own ideals of change to the story through the dialogues of his characters. His flawless insertion of a hidden propaganda has awakened a new dimension to approaching situations the Indios were subjected to, as revealed in a scene from Chapter 25 between two contrasting men wherein one is persuading the other to take action against the

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