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Doña Victorina is a wealthy mestiza socialite, the wife of Don Tiburcio and aunt of Paulita Gómez. Victorina is obsessed with Europeanizing herself and denying her indio heritage, and she treats Filipino culture and society with scorn. Victorina’s marriage to the Spanish Tiburcio is unhappy and volatile, and their eventual coming to blows prompted Tiburcio to flee Manila and hide out in the countryside. Though this initially enrages her, Victorina soon sees the benefits of life without him and attempts to maneuver her way into marrying Juanito Peláez, though this falls through when Pelàez becomes engaged to Paulita.
Doña Victorina Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Doña Victorina or refer to Doña Victorina. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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24. Dreams
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But Paulita had heard that to get to Isagani’s village you had to go through mountains where there was an abundance of little leeches and just thinking about it made the coward in her tremble convulsively. Spoiled and indulged, she simply said that she would only travel there by coach or train.
Isagani, who had by then forgotten all his pessimism and now could see everywhere only roses without thorns, said to her, “Soon every island will be crisscrossed by a network of steel, ‘Where rapid / and fleeting / locomotives / speeding will go,’ as someone once said. Then the most beautiful corners of the archipelago will be open to everyone.”
“Then? When? When I’m old?”
“Oh, you have no idea what we’ll be able to do in just a few years,” Isagani replied.
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Doña Victorina Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Doña Victorina or refer to Doña Victorina. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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24. Dreams
Quotes
But Paulita had heard that to get to Isagani’s village you had to go through mountains where there was an abundance of little leeches and just thinking about it made the coward in her tremble convulsively. Spoiled and indulged, she simply said that she would only travel there by coach or train.
Isagani, who had by then forgotten all his pessimism and now could see everywhere only roses without thorns, said to her, “Soon every island will be crisscrossed by a network of steel, ‘Where rapid / and fleeting / locomotives / speeding will go,’ as someone once said. Then the most beautiful corners of the archipelago will be open to everyone.”
“Then? When? When I’m old?”
“Oh, you have no idea what we’ll be able to do in just a few years,” Isagani replied.
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