Rizal's views enraged the Spanish friars and colonial authorities. The Fili speculates on the likelihood and outcome of a revolution against the Spaniards.

Rizal's second novel, El Filibusterismo (The Revolution), was published in 1891. The Noli, as it is affectionately known among Filipinos, portrayed the oppressive conditions of Spanish colonial rule and can be read to this day as an analysis of the problems of Filipino society. His first novel, Noli Me Tangere, literally Touch Me Not, from the Latin version of the words spoken (according to John 20:17) by Jesus to Mary Magdalene when she recognizes him after his resurrection, was published in 1887, the year Rizal returned to the Philippines. In 1882, he left for Spain to continue his study of medicine and the humanities at the Universidad Central de Madrid. He attended the Ateneo de Manila University, then studied medicine at the University of Santo Thomas. His father successfully managed a sugar plantation on a parcel of land leased from the Dominican Order. Rizal, who was of mixed Chinese descent, was from a prosperous family and able to enroll in the top schools in Manila. In fact, it could be said that Rizal's thoughts about the nature of Filipino colonial society laid the foundations for an original Southeast Asian sociology of colonial society. THE PHILIPPINES' national hero, the writer José Rizal, was the first intellectual in Southeast Asia to think systematically about social and political issues.

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