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A wealthy young man of mixed Spanish and Filipino ancestry who has recently returned to the Philippines from Europe after spending seven years studying abroad.

juan crisostomo ibarra y magsalin

is cultured and well-respected, though the friars in his hometown of San Diego are suspicious of him.

juan crisostomo ibarra y magsalin

Son of don rafael ibarra who recently imprisoned and labeled a subversive and heretic, a sentence that eventually led to his death in jail.

juan crisostomo ibarra y magsalin

is a politically important character because Rizal uses him to voice ideas regarding colonialism and the nature of power in the Philippines.

juan crisostomo ibarra y magsalin

is branded a heretical subversive, his ideas about reform and revolution begin to align with his friend Elías’s more radical theories.

juan crisostomo ibarra y magsalin

A woman well-regarded in San Diego for her high social station. And kasintahan ni crisostomo ibarra

maria clara

Was arrange to mary linares after ibarra was being excommunicated.

maria clara

a spineless socialite who disavows Ibarra to stay in the good graces of friars like Father Dámaso.

captain tiago

Biological father or maria clara

father damaso

is an arrogant and pedantic priest who, despite having lived amongst Filipinos and hearing their confessions for over twenty years, is barely able to speak or understand Tagalog, the country’s native language.

father damaso

A shameless loudmouth, he is unafraid of slandering nonreligious citizens who he thinks undermine his power.

father damaso

He is Ibarra’s most evident and outspoken rival, a fact Dámaso seems to leverage by taunting the young man at a dinner party one night, making allusions to Rafael’s death and insulting Ibarra’s project to build a school.

father damaso

An outlaw and vagabond revolutionary who resents the power the Catholic church and Spanish government have over the Philippines.

elias

Who was that man that After Ibarra saves his life from a vicious crocodile, ___ swears to protect the young man from his enemies, which are legion.

elias

A serious and committed Spanish friar who takes over Father Dámaso’s post in San Diego as the town’s priest.

father salvi

is a meticulous and cunning man who uses his religious stature for political influence, benefiting both himself and the church.

father salvi

He is often at odds with the town’s military ensign, volleying back and forth for power over San Diego and its citizens.

father salvi

Secretly loves maria clara

father salvi

A Filipino socialite and well-respected member of the country’s wealthy elite.

captain tiago

is one of the richest property owners in Manila and San Diego. He is concerned with making sure his daughter, María Clara, marries an affluent man with ample social capital, which is one of the reasons he so quickly abandons his support of Ibarra when the friars disgrace the young man’s name.

captain tiago

A Spaniard in charge of the Civil Guard in San Diego.

ensign

has a bitter relationship with Father Salví, since he thinks Father Salví takes his position too seriously.

ensign

Who enforces curfews that make it difficult for the citizens of San Diego to attend church at the proper times.

ensign

is married to a strong-willed Filipina woman named Doña Consolación, with whom he fights day in and day out.

ensign

An old man who used to study philosophy and who prefers secular knowledge to Catholicism.

old tasio

This atheistic worldview attracts attention from the friars and pious townspeople, who call him a “madman”

old tasio

Who is an extreme representation of what it is to live without caring what other people think:

old tasio

An older Filipina woman married to the ensign.

doña consolacion

is a brutal, vulgar partner who berates the ensign, engaging him in intense physical fights heard across the town. It is well known that she makes many of the ensign’s decisions, and she even fuels his rivalry with Father Salví, encouraging her husband to take action against the priest to assert his dominance.

doña consolacion

Rizal depicts ______ as incredibly crass and very ugly, writing that her one “sterling trait” is that she seems to have “never looked in the mirror.

doña consolacion

She even pretends to not remember her native language, Tagalog, instead speaking very bad Spanish.

doña consolacion

Ibarra’s father, who has died before the novel’s opening pages.

don rafael ibarra

Who is the sympathetic friend of rafael ibara’s father

lt. guevara

Who is the person who accused by Father Dámaso of heresy and subversion.

don rafael ibarra

A very young boy studying to be a sexton, or a caretaker of the church.

crispin

Mother of basilio and crispin

sisa

Crispín’s older brother, who is also training to be a sexton.

basilio

Sisa eventually dies after finally understanding that ____ is her son.

basilio

A Spaniard who speaks with a stutter and looks significantly older than his thirty-five years.

don tiburcio

Who is he that people came to think of him as one of the country’s best doctors.

don tiburcio

Wife of don tiburcio

doña victorina

Who came to the Philippines as a customs officer, but was dismissed upon his arrival.

don tiburcio

A brazen and determined Filipina social climber

doña victorina

She is the spouse of the counterfeit doctor, Tiburcio de Espadaña.

doña victorina

She well past her prime and relies on garish make- up to carry on a façade of youth.

doña victorina

A morally upright man of Spanish descent who holds both Crisostomo Ibarra and the late Don Rafael in high esteem.

lt. guevara

he is also the lieutenant of the Civil Guard.

lt. guevara

He is one of the few who openly supported the Ibarra’s and was vocal about his dislike of Fray Damaso’s control.

lt. guevara

He was the one who informed Crisostomo Ibarra of the fate of his father and how Fr. Damaso was involved in his death.

lt. guevara

Dr. de Espadaña’s nephew, a respectable young Spanish man, quite gifted and possesses a law degree

linares

he informs Crisostomo Ibarra of the sorry state of education of San Diego since the passing of his father.

schoolmaster

A teacher that Don Rafael housed thus allowing him to suitably attend to the task of instructing students

schoolmaster

Who is grateful to the Ibarra family but he expresses no optimism that he’d make headway in getting any lasting educational reforms happen.

schoolmaster

He is a representative of the younger, less religiously shackled generation of movers and shakers in San Diego, he also serves as the vice mayor of the town.

don filipo

He despises the idea of spending lavish amounts of money on the numerous feast days that mark the religious calendar seeing it as both wasteful and burdensome to the citizens as it often puts them under great financial stress, may even going under debt just to be able to celebrate.

don filipo

Nothing more than a marionette of the Catholic priesthood, the unnamed Mayor of San Diego is a über-conservative, hyper- religious stooge.

mayor

An assassin tasked to kill the younger Ibarra, his plot to murder the young man is thwarted by the cunning Elias.

yellowman

she dies from surprise and sudden joy.

sisa

she goes mad upon the loss of her sons.

sisa

A priest serving in the Binondo district in the city of Manila

father sibyla

He is serves as a foil to the otherwise largely corrupt Fray Dámaso and the perverse Fray Salví as he is rational and calm.

father sibyla

He is an adept and shrewd orator who takes obvious delight in antagonizing the pompous Fr. Dámaso at Ibarra’s return party.

father sibyla

A cousin of Capitan Tiago who raised Maria Clara as her own child after her mother’s untimely death

aunt isabel

A man tasked to look after the church and train the young wards, Crispin and Basilio, ironic as he is a cruel, violent man who is in actuality Fray Salví’s hatchet man.

chief sexton

A cemetery worker who exhumes Don Rafael’s remains upon the insistence of Fr. Damaso;

gravedigger

he dumps Don Rafael’s body in the lake seeing it as a more fitting resting place for such a respected man.

gravedigger

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Hernandez, Remefil H. · 12問 · 2年前

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