Social Metamorphosis

The Buscon is a work that reflects the feudal crisis and the rise of commercial society. This metamorphosis is considered by the author of the work as a carnivalesque of society must necessarily be represented in the form of Quevedo satirica.Francisco belonged to an aristocratic family who had distinguished from early times to defend the Christian identity of Spain . It is important to remember that throughout the Middle Ages and the modern age of existed in Spain, Spanish Christian Association as Jews and Muslims were considered foreigners. The author of Buscon belongs to a social group that clings to the Spanish estates, ie it considers the extremely social status is related to the characteristics provided by the sectarian mentality Quevedo sangre.La frowns on some events that occur at the seventeenth century. The approach of the Portuguese bourgeoisie home convert to the Spanish crown in the period of Philip III and Philip IV is considered, according to Don Francisco, as a serious risk stratified structure which for years had guaranteed the privileged position of his family and himself. Other events of concern to the author of Buscon were the constant purchase of titles of nobility to some converts belonging to the bourgeoisie and admission to universities, clergy and orders of chivalry of people who had the "taint of blood." Buscon found in the a direct criticism of the "intrusion" of converts in the affairs of the Crown, characters like the referee, the fencing master, the soldier show that the statutes of purity of blood have been ignored, allowing those who do not possess "the blood requirements "become part of orders that were previously assigned to" clean "Counterfeiting of nobility is alluded to by Colonel average family, which directly recalls the Senior Rabbi Abraham Segovia, a friend of Isabella who suggested that converted to Catholicism after the decree of expulsion of Jews.