FRAY BOTOD

By: Graciano Lopez Jaena's 

FRAY BOTOD

Sunday 28, 2019

          Fray Botod, meaning Big-Bellied Friar, is a character sketch written by Graciano Lopez Jaena in 1874 when he was only eighteen years old. 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. Today in 2016, we are ages away from the days of Fray Botod.  However if you start reading Fray Botod bearing in mind that Fray is your Congressman, you will really.
Graciano Lopez Jeana writes in Spanish about the use of religion showing the massive profits of bills in the vice of the beloved debt obligation frairs in the rest of the Philippines. 

               Graciano Lopez describe this story about how the Filipino deal with the Spanish. in the time of Spanish the most famous of the community is the priest. The priest was known as a high than the politics. When the priest is exist at the time they use their power to abuse the poor Filipino  people. Also the priest known as a devil being because of what they doing some of the poor people like physical abuse and using the money to control the society.This is a fascinating description of the person performed through the dialogue of a Filipino and a liberal Spanish friend. The bad habits of the fraile were discussed in different situations, such as gambling, mass and feast, politics, lying and bribery, grave food intolerance, late afternoon sleep, and punishing. Some of the traits were the presence of inmoral relations with women, intimidation and punishment of students, neglecting her priestly responsibility for gambling, and cruel punishment for an Indio worker who had not worked with him for three days because to a sick wife.