Where It All Started
Anti-modern aspects of postmodernism of colonial society. Factors observable in the novels are how friars opposed India's to have a proper education, which is portrayed by Padre Damaso. The school is a symbol of empowerment since, as Rizal stated, education is a way to avoid succumbing to a country's domineering aristocracy. For instance, the church prevents Filipinos from learning Spanish in school comma which prevents them from obtaining the most prestigious jobs in the colonial society. Crispin and Basilio are the ones who would have benefited from a circular education. If only they had been offered the opportunity to the education they wouldn't have become sextons and wrongfully accused by the church.
Nowadays, quality education can be attained with government universities and is free to all. Another factor is how the church meddles with the governance in the San Diego period it is evident that the authority of the church is higher than the government in the 19th-century Philippines. In Rizal's novels, he portrayed that the friars also use the catholic doctrines as a basis of a person for example Tasio though he is a highly educated person is ridiculed by most of society because his values differ from the norm. Also, how they use exile, ex-communication, and the death penalty as punishment was seen when don Rafael Ibarra was sentenced to the death penalty. Currently, the country has instated a law that separates the church and the state that states that no law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion. Lastly, how 19th-century society views their women. Women were seen as the weaker sex period they were expected to be subservient to their husbands and father. Their occupational option was also extremely limited, and middle and upper-class women generally remained home to care for their children and household. Maria Clara is supposedly created to be a perfect example of women in that era.
In this era, this concept formed the patriarchal society, a social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of poverty and feminism, the advocacy of women's rights based on equality of the sexes.
Modernity is a concept of surpassing predecessors in terms of knowledge advances period Jose Rizal was considered a modern man and his lifetime. Rizal desires modernity to the point that in his first attempt at reformation in the Philippines, he wished the Philippines to be part of Spain clearly he wanted the Philippines to progress. Jose Rizal chooses to exploit the Spaniard colonization and their effects on Filipinos, to their sociological aspects and in the 19th century Philippines society and his novels.
As Spaniards claimed, they supposedly brought modernity with them to the Philippines which is not relatively true. According to results logic, the corrupt Spanish colonial bureaucracy relentlessly exploited the Filipinos, but blame the underdevelopment of the people on their presumed indolence.
The self in the western shows that this view was erroneous through recourse to both logic and historical fact, which brought Rizal to a work of Antonio de Morga work. The fact proved true the colonialist view of Filipinos that pre-colonial Filipino society was relatively advanced, suggesting that the presumed backwardness was because of colonialism. And, of course, despite the claims of the heavy-handed colonial government and the hierarchy of the roman catholic church, the colonial policy was oppressive.
Rizal referred to the "boasted minister of god which is the friars and propagators of light who have not sought nor do they sow Christian morals, they have not taught religion, but rituals and superstition". The sentiment is not without merit even today. Modernity is never the problem in the Spanish colonial period. It was their claim that the Philippines would never have advanced and progressed without them. To consider modernity as the central problem of the noble, it would seem that Rizal opposed the idea of the Philippines progressing and would only be seen as a cynical man who disapprove of modernity. To establish the Philippines do not need there, the Spaniards, modernity owing to the fact that even before they came, philippine was already prospering with innovation. Instead portrayed the oppressive condition of Spanish colonial rule since their stay was the major root of all the problems at that period. Rizal hope to educate Filipinos with this aspect of the Spanish regime, he wanted them to progress through education and to open their eyes to their true villain in the country since the Filipinos are also half of the problem. He held on to the idea of education as a way of overcoming oppression.
The friars, on the other hand, we're always clashing to the out of the Filipinos gaining knowledge. They covertly the real Jose Rizal's effort to spread secular knowledge to the Philippines population, using their influence on the church and stating that the nobles are subversive, heretical, and against the catholic doctrine. It was also shown in the Noli me Tangere when Ibarra, a respected figure, advocated the importance of education and intellect by building a school, but San Diego's friars are fearful of education power to liberate natives from the church control. The church curtails the effectiveness of education even true punishments.
Overall, and results in logic, modernity can never be a problem if it's in the right context. Awakening the Filipinos mind through education can lead to a positive change in the Philippines, and with this view the country and reform the corrupt system rather than completely destroyed it.
Disclaimer: I am neither a psychologist nor a financial advisor, and all of my pieces were done for entertainment purposes only. What I've written here is merely my personal opinion, and any statements made are based on my personal views and should not be taken as fact. Always do your due diligence.
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