TO YOUNG WOMEN OF MALOLOS

COUNTRY DEDICATION REASON VALUES

It is an essay written by Rizal while he was in Rizal dedicate it to different women in society:  It is to pay homage to 20 women of  Filipino mothers should teach their
London upon the request of Marcelo H. del Pilar  Mothers Malolos who desire to educate themselves children about the love of God, country,
 Daughters  Rizal created this essay because he sees in and fellowmen
 Wives these women a ray of hope in restoring  Filipino mothers should be glad and
 Unmarried womens the Filipino women’s dignity and worth honored, like Spartan mothers, to offer
their sons in defense of their country
 Filipino women should educate
themselves aside from retaining their goof
racial values
 Faith is not merely reciting prayers and
wearing religious pictures. It is living the
real Christian way with good morals and
manners.
THE INDOLENCE OF THE FILIPINOS
 Rizal created this essay for a defense of  Rizal wrote the essay to defend the  The value that Rizal wants us to attain is
 It was published in La Solidaridad alleged indolence of the Filipinos Filipinos from the charge that they were that we need to have a progress in out
Madrid, Spain (July 15, 1890 – September  He wanted to end the insults to the born indolent country, we have to start from small steps
15, 1890) Filipinos about this instilled culture  He wrote the essay because there were a and small things within ourselves before
 He dedicated it to awaken his countrymen lot of wars, insurrections, expeditions and focusing on the bigger picture that is more
to their own faults and at the same time invasion. It enumerates several reasons complicated and we should start to be
condemning the defects in Spain’s that may have caused the Filipinos more responsible for our own actions and
colonial system which causes cultural and economic corruption that to make sure that those actions will now
shortcomings among Filipinos. even Filipinos were sent abroad to fight harm anybody and instead benefit
for Spain or shipyards to construct vessels ourselves and country as well.
– forced labor
LOVE OF COUNTRY
 Rizal wrote his essay when he was  The message of this essay is wisdom  The reason he created this essay because  It will help us to give value more about
already in Spain, June 1882 urged the Filipinos to invest their time, it is our duty to love our country, and our the cultural, religious, and ethnic unity of
strength, and knowledge for motherland conscience dictates that we do everything a people, patriotism is the love of a
that our duty implies. people’s common liberty, which gives us
 He also added that whatever our condition the strength to resist oppression by the
might be then, let us love our country selfish ambitions of particular individuals.
always and let us wish nothing but her
welfare.