Don Quixote Reader Response Life is not perfect; it certainly has its ups and downs. Some people accept life as it is: they face reality‚ solving life’s problems and appreciating its benefits. Others choose to lean toward the fantastic‚ imagining fictional ideals and utopian lifestyles. A story that embodies this dialectic is that of Don Quixote‚ written by Miguel de Cervantes‚ where the main character‚ a simple middle aged gentleman‚ becomes influenced by books he’s read on the topic of chivalry
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DON QUIXOTE The novel opens by briefly describing Don Quixote and his fascination with chivalric stories. With his “wits gone”‚ Don Quixote decides to become a knight and ream the country side righting wrong and rescuing damsels in distress. He outfits himself in some old armor and professes his love and service to Aldonsa Lorenzo whom he refers to as Dulcinea Del Toboso. After a long hot ride on his horse he comes upon an inn which he thinks is a castle and the innkeeper
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Don Quixote In the story the author uses many situations and circumstances to demonstrate loyalty. Loyalty is the state or quality of being loyal‚ faithfulness to commitments or obligations. Don Quixote is a man that believes in being loyal‚ and he expects the people that he encounters to be the same way. In one situation in the book‚ Don rolled up on a farmer beating his servant. That made Don furious and he could not believe what he was seeing. After a conversation with the boy and the farmer
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World Lit 10 November 2010 Don Quixote Response In Don Quixote the prologue‚ he speaks of writing his story and how it will not meet the standards of many other great writings. He say “with a tale that is as dried as a rush‚ a stranger to invention‚ paltry in style‚ improvised in content‚ and wholly lacking in learning and wisdom‚ without marginal citations or notes at the end of the book when other works of this sort‚ even though they be fabulous and profane‚ are so packed
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English 12 4 April 2013 Fighting Giants In the book Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes‚ the eponymous protagonist‚ Don Quixote‚ explains his reason for becoming a knight in the 16th century‚ saying “as time went on and wickedness increased‚ the order of knight-errantry was instituted to defend maidens‚ to protect widows‚ and to rescue orphans and distressed persons” (Cervantes 52). In the book‚ Quixote‚ moved by books of chivalry‚ dons his grandfather’s rusty knight armor and sallies on an
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these things can be just as exciting. In the story “Don Quixote” by Miguel De Cervantes the main character Don Quixote plays a delusional hero who is a knight-errant. Don Quixote goes on adventures fighting delusion battles and facing non existent evil‚ but within his madness is the purpose of Cervantes ridicule of the hero. Don Quixote is a character that Cervantes uses in a satirical way to have readers rethink the problems of that time. Don Quixote exhibits the characteristics of an epic hero: great
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Q.2 Wherein lies the comedy in part one of Don Quixote? The story Don Quixote is a burlesque‚ mock epic of the romances of chivalry‚ in which Cervantes teaches the reader the truth by creating laughter that ridicules. Through the protagonist‚ he succeeds in satirizing Spain’s obsession with the noble knights as being absurdly old fashioned. The dynamics of the comedy in this story are simple‚ Don Quixote believes the romances he has read and strives to live them out‚ and it is his actions and
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Literature Don Quixote Essay “With these word and phrases the poor gentleman lost his mind‚” (Cervantes 20). In the beginning of Don Quixote‚ the reader is introduced to a man engulfed in chivalric books‚ who soon loses his mind in the stories of knighthood. Don Quixote is labeled as an insane man by the narrator who soon proves this statement through Don Quixote’s delusions and eccentric behaviors. As the narrator describes the delusions‚ the narrator’s tone is overly mocking towards Don Quixote’s
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Purpose of Don Quixote Each author has a point of view from which he or she invents and create his or her own characters and adventures. Some novels are written in first person narratives‚ but Cervantes‚ Don Quixote is from an omniscient point of view who can see into each character and depict past and future events at each point in the narrative‚ which would appear to some as though the story actually happened. Don Quixote is supposed to be a history and thus gives Cervantes certain
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Critical EssaysPurpose of Don Quixote Cervantes himself states that he wrote Don Quixote in order to undermine the influence of those "vain and empty books of chivalry" as well as to provide some merry‚ original‚ and sometimes prudent material for his readers’ entertainment. Whether or not the author truly believed the superficiality of his own purpose is immaterial; in fact‚ Cervantes did make a complete end to further publications of chivalric romances. Despite the harmful extravagances of these
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