A Filipina woman married to Don Tiburcio. Above all else, Doña Victorina cares about her image as a beautiful and admired socialite, though she is actually—as Rizal goes out of his way to emphasize—past her prime. She is only in her thirties but looks much older, and she quickly adopts the latest trends, often changing her patterns of speech to reflect the sound of high society members. It is her idea to have Don Tiburcio treat María Clara. She also encourages him to bring along his respectable nephew Linares, whom she is eager to pair off with María Clara when Captain Tiago—whose advances she denied as a young woman because he was Filipino and not Spanish—calls off the wedding between his daughter and Ibarra.
La Doctora Victorina de los Reyes de Espadaña Quotes in Noli Me Tangere
The Noli Me Tangere quotes below are all either spoken by La Doctora Victorina de los Reyes de Espadaña or refer to La Doctora Victorina de los Reyes de Espadaña. 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: Colonialism, Religion, and Power Theme Icon ). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Penguin Books edition of Noli Me Tangere published in 2006.