Life and Works of Rizal Essay

He continued his stu hold outs at the Universidad Central de Madrid, Spain, where he get the percentage point of Licientiate in Medicine. He also attended the University of Paris in France and earned second doctorate at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Having travelled the world extensively, Rizal became familiar(predicate) in at least twenty-two languages. He was a fertile poet, essayist, diarist, correspondent, and novelist whose most famous works were his two novels, Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.These works fearlessly exposed the injustices committed by the Spanish civil and clerical officials in the Philippines amd spurred the militancy of armed revolutionaries and reformist against more than 300 years of Spanish rule. Rizal was proponent of institutional reforms by peaceful means rather than force-out revolution. But he was associated with the growing insurgency movement and declared an competitor of the state by the Spanish governing particularly because of the publication of his novels.He was deported to Dapitan in Zamboanga then incarcerated at Fort Santiago. When the Katipunan exploded into the full-blown revolution, the authorities were quick to incriminate him. After a mock trial, Rizal was convicted and sentence to die by firing squad at Bagubayan on December 30, 1896. Eventually, his martyred demolition proved to be the catalyst that precipitated the Philippine revolution and the downfall of the Spanish colonial rule.