The story of Fray Botod is written by Graciano Lopez
Jaena when he was 18 years old. It was written during 1874. The story is all about
Spanish priest which Graciano Lopez Jaena portrays as a bloated, hypocritical
Priest. That reflects that time of an abuses of catholic churches during
Spanish period.
Fray
botod introduces the stereotypical Spanish friar who uses religion as a tool
for oppressing others in order to satisfy his appetite for food, money and
women. He also have an immoral relationships with young girls called
canding-canding. He also threatening and punishing some students from the
University of Manila. That neglecting his duties as a parish priest in favor of
gambling, conducting his business unfairly, and barbarously punishing an Indio
laborer who failed to work at his estate for three days.
In this
work, he caricatured the typical friar of the day as abusive, cruel, lazy,
indifferent, greedy and lustful. He particularly abhorred the abuses and
greediness of the friars that his first written work was against this group of
people. That he was taking advantage of his position to fulfill all his darkness
mind.
The
story was symbolic because Graciano Lopez Jaena give an inspiration to
propaganda movement that brings him to exile to his home country. After reading
the story it made me realize how abusive, cruel or demon Spaniards that time. I
am very thankful that I born in this
period which doesn’t have a war that hold me to be happy. Also, I am proud of
being a Filipinos because we know how to fight even in any kind of tool that we
use. That we have a bravoes mind and strong will power to overcome all the
situations that we will face on.
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