Don Quijote

Don Quijote

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  • Date Submitted: 04/09/2013 2:15 AM
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“Don Quixote”


Don Quixote is a story of Alonso Quijano, an aged man from the region of La Mancha in central Spain is passionate with chivalrous ideals in books that he owns in his personal library that he completed from selling lands he owned. After reading so many chivalric romances he loses his reason and decides to protect the weak and demolish the good. He puts on his old suit of armor, mounts on an old horse he calls Rocinante and starts a first journey. He is now known as a knight named Don Quixote de la Mancha who sets off to the countryside obtaining some adventure starting off with the famous windmill attack where he believes to be fierce giants. Sancho Panza, a man very greedy but kind, faithful but cowardly whom Don Quixote takes as his squire and sword-bearer. In return of Sancho’s services, Don Quixote makes a promise to make Sancho the very rich governor of the Island. During the journey, he pursues fame on the roads of Spain. He gives up food, shelter and comfort, all in the name of a peasant woman, Dulcenia of Toboso, whom he sees as a princess. Dulcenia is the invisible force motivating all of Don Quixote’s explorations and has no awareness of his chivalric loyalty to her. On the second expedition, Don Quixote converts to a thief than a protector; stealing and hurting annoyed citizens while acting out against what he feels as dangers to his knighthood or to the world. Sancho plays the honest man to Don Quixote, trying his best to fix his leader's strange imaginations while his other friends the barber and priest drag him home thinking that he is under the influence of an enchantment.
Don Quixote is the main character that owned a land in La Mancha, which he sold to buy different books about chivalry. Don Quixote very passionate with knight errantry decides to have a quest in life to revitalize knight-errantry in an empty world of chivalric virtues and values. He sees the world in a very different perspective as the others and chooses to...

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