WEIGHING AGAINST HISTORY: REVOLUTION VERSUS PROPAGANDA Introduction: The Philippine literature that we are using nowadays rooted merely from the revolutionary period during the Spanish colonization. At those times, Revolutionists emerged and wrote independence-based literary works that were brought by the misunderstanding of the aims of the propagandists and revolutionists. The propaganda movement only aimed for equality and reform of the Spanish constitution in the Philippines and not for total independence from Spain’s influence, which later on became the aim of the Revolutionists. In accordance to this, the study aimed to make a comparison: the Philippine Literature and History that that brought independence; and the Philippine Literature and History that never undergo Revolution. The study will detail each of the situation’s benefits and non-benefits to the society and the culture of the Philippines under the Spanish period.

I. The Philippine Literature and History that Brought Independence
“And so, Farewell, this is our final cry.” The line was taken from the famous literary work of Andres Bonifacio, “The Final Cry of the Filipinas”. Ka- Andres was one of the renowned heroes of the Filipino revolution during the Spanish regime. Bonifacio manifested his aim for freedom, not only in how he fought bravely during the war, but in his literary works as well. In his work, “What The Filipinos Should Know” in 1986, Bonifacio enlightened the sleeping hearts of the abused Filipinos on how Spain Trashed the Philippine’s native culture, and trashed the Philippine’s fully given trust for more than three hundred years.
“None but treachery is the reward for our munificence, and instead of keeping their promise, that we should lead or path of knowledge, they have blinded us contaminated us with their meanness of character and forcibly destroyed the sanctity