![]() Doña Victorina is the wife of Don Tiburcio de Espadaña, who left her after many years of marriage and who was now hiding (maybe) in Laguna. ![]() ![]() She is accompanied by her niece, the beautiful and rich Paulita Gomez. She is depicted as a foul-mouthed, extravagant, heavily made-up, disdainful, and insufferable Indio who tries to pass herself off as a European through her wigs and clothes. We meet Doña Victorina, the only lady in the European group on the upper deck (guess who have to stay below deck). Take note of the possible parallelism between the ship and the government ruling in the Philippines during Rizal‘s time: full of hot air, tyrannical, pretentious. EL FILIBUSTERISMO The Reign of Greed (Chapter Summaries and Analysis) Chapter 1: On Deck The novel opens with the steamship Tabo heading up the Pasig river on its way to La Laguna one December morning.
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