- The title "Noli Me Tangere" comes from a Latin phrase meaning "touch me not" that Jesus says to Mary Magdalene in the Bible.
- Rizal was inspired to write a novel about the Philippines after reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. He proposed the idea to fellow Filipinos in Madrid in 1884 but the project did not materialize.
- Rizal wrote the Noli Me Tangere alone between 1884-1886 while traveling through Madrid, Paris, and Germany. He nearly destroyed the manuscript while ill and penniless in Berlin before his friend Maximo Viola funded its publication.
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Noli me tangere
2. The Title
Literally translated, the Latin words noli me
t叩ngere means, touch me not
Taken from John 20:17 when Mary Magdalene
holds on to Jesus and he tells her not to touch him.
John 20:17 Jesus said to her: Stop clinging to me.
For I have not yet ascended to the Father . But be
on your way to my brothers and say to them, I am
ascending to my Father and to your Father and to
my God and your God.
7. INSPIRATION OF RIZAL
Harriet Beecher Stowes
Uncle Toms Cabin
Which portrays the
brutalities of American
slave-owners and the
pathetic conditions of the
unfortunate Negro slaves.
8. Reunion Of the Filipinos In the Paterno
Residence in Madrid January 2, 1884 Rizal
proposed the writing of a novel about the
Philippines by a group of Filipinos.
Approved by: Paternos (Pedro, Maximo and
Antoia) Graciano Lopez Jaena, Evaristo Aguirre,
Eduardo de Lette, Julio Llorente, Melecio
Figueroa and Valentin Ventura
9. What happened to Rizal project Proposal?
Rizals project did not materialize Those compatriots
who were expected to collaborate on the novel did not
write anything. Almost everybody wanted to write on
women. Rizal was disgusted.
Rizal was disgusted at such flippancy He was more
disgusted to see that his companions instead of working
seriously on the novel, wasted their gambling or flirting
with Spanish se単oritas.
He write the novel alone
Why Rizal was disgusted?
11. End of 1884, Rizal began writing the
novel in Madrid and finished about one-
half of it. In Paris He continued writing
the novel (Finishing one-half of the
second half) In Germany He finished the
last fourth of the novel.
12. In Wilhemsfeld (April-June 1886) He
wrote the last few chapters of Noli In
Berlin (Winterdays of February
1886) Rizal made the final revisions
on the manuscript of the Noli.
13. What happened to Rizal because of sick and
penniles?
In a momentary fit of desperation, he almost
hurled it into the flames.
I did not believe that the Noli Me Tangere
would ever be published when I was in
Berlin, broken-hearted, weaked, and
discouraged form hunger and despiration. I
was on the point of throwing my work into
the fire as a thing accursed and fit only to
die.
15. VIOLA, Savior of the Noli
Maximo Viola , who gave him
the necessary funds to publish
the novel, Noli me Tangere was
published. Viola loaned Rizal
money for publishing and for
Rizals living expenses. With that,
Rizal and Viola happily
celebrated the Christmas of
1886 in Berlin.
16. During the printing of the Noli, the chief of police
Berlin paid a sudden visit to Rizal boarding
house . The chief asked for his passport, but Rizal
couldnt show any. The chief told him to secure
passport within 4 days, otherwise he would be
deported.
Rizal failed in obtaining his passport and
presented himself at the German police office,
apologizing for his failure.
17. After Rizal put the finishing touches on his novel.
He deleted certain passages in his manuscript,
including a whole chapter of Elias and Salome
March 21, 1887 The Noli was finally finished
and ready for printing. They went to different
printing shops in Berlin to survey the cost of
printing. Berliner Buchdruck-Action-
Gesselschacft Printing shop they found
which charged the lowest rate, that is, 300
pesos for 2,000 copies of the novel.