Abstract
Don Juan has been one of the many recurrent icons present throughout history. He made his most notable appearances in Tirso da Molina's seventeenth century comedy, Mozart and Da Ponte's "Don Giovanni" in late eighteenth century, and more recently in Mike Mitchell's movie "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" which premiered in 1999. This paper looks at how there are two contrasting constructions of the Don operating in the modern film and several clues to the presence of this icon. It discusses how his role can be further understood by comparing the new construction of Don Juan to his classic form in the seventeenth and eighteenth century plays, as well as by considering how urban culture has remade the Don.

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"There are many similarities that can be drawn between the Don in Mozart and Da Ponte's opera and Mitchell's modern construction of the Don. For instance, the Don Giovanni is a man who indulges himself in every desire that he has. He is arrogant yet charming; sadistic, yet sexy. This is exemplified by the fact that he attempts to sleep with almost every woman he comes in contact with, as well as the fact that he goes as far as killing a man, revealing his sadistic side. The first scene in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo that Antoine is in mirrors this image almost exactly. He pulls up in his sports car with one of his "customers", blaring music and seducing her with promises of "massage oils". When he and the woman catch sight of Deuce, they both start to laugh hysterically at him."

Tags:mozart, don, giovanni

Abstract
This paper analyzes the main themes anad relationships between the characters of Don Quixote. It mainly examines the relationship between the knight and his squire. The characters balance each other within their relationship. While Don Quixote wishes to sally forth for glory, Sancho Panza looks forward to the wealth they will acquire. When the knight is brave, the squire is cowardly. It concludes that the differences in their educations (due mainly to class) also seperate them, and create a balance in their relationship.

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"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away" (Byron 93). In typical burlesque manner, Cervantes creates the relationship between Don Quixote and his squire, Sancho, by treating the lofty formal relationships of chivalric romances in a low style (Frye 84). As opposed to creating an Arthurian knight and squire with the official association they shared, Cervantes writes their relationship as a friendship, with each character's strengths complimenting the others weaknesses. The differences between the characters are exemplified in their motives for sallying forth, their presentation as a hero and a coward, and the variation in their educations. When one character is found to be lacking in a particular trait, the other compliments him by having an abundance of asset in that same area."

Tags:burlesque, Cervantes, knight, novel, squire, Don, Quixote, character, education, class

Abstract
In this philosophical analysis of the film "Don't Look Now", the dynamics of the film are discussed. The writer examines the impact upon parents upon the accidental death of their child. The writer employs the philosophies of Sartre, Plato and Aristotle in order to explore how subjective views can create their own reality.

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"The film 'Don't Look Now' is a moody suspense story about a couple's life after the accidental death of their child. The child, Christine, dies in the first few minutes of the film, yet she haunts it for the next hour and a half. Although the film suggests at first that the couple has moved on from their child's death, it eventually becomes clear that they have not in fact done so. As a result, the film provides an opportunity to explore the concepts of subjectivity ... "

Tags:aristotle, sartre, plato, don't look now

Abstract
Beginning with a comparison of the two pieces of fiction, this paper goes on to analyze the the romantic underlinings in each story. Focusing on the females in "Othello" by Shakespeare and Quixote in "Don Quixote" by Cervantes, it conceptualizes why the artists romanticize in any fashion. In concludes that an overly idealized and romanticized view of women is the inspiration for these tales.

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"No fiction leads to any positive ends throughout Shakespeare's tragedy. Othello first sees Desdemona as a kind of Dulcinea, an utterly pure and chaste being. Although she is no peasant girl like Quixote's Aldonza, she cannot live up to her husband's projected ideals. So she becomes a kind of whore in Othello's eyes, a prostitute worthy of death, because she is no longer 'perfect.' Their marriage is false, an imitation of a marriage, which seems more perfectly initially and then is shown to be based upon sand and fictions. Much as it is said in Don Quixote, ironically "All that you have to do is to make proper use of imitation in what you write, and the more perfect the imitation the better will your work be." Fictions and imitations, or stereotypes, are more potent than realities. It is very easy to be put under the spell of another person's fiction, if they seem to believe that fiction with enough fervor--even the practical Sancho Panza finds himself going along with Don Quixote, against his better judgment, even when the Don's actions result in more harm than good for the people whom he is trying to save."

Tags:shakespeare, othello, don quixote, literature, art

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This paper interprets the movie "Boys Don't Cry" using the personality theory of Erik Erikson. The author presents a brief synopsis of the movie and an analysis of its main character, Teena Brandon. The paper concludes that, based on Erikson's conceptual framework of personality and psychosocial development, Teena has an issue of identity diffusion.

Tags:Boys, Don't, Cry

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This paper examines how love and marriage have been popular literary themes throughout history and how, because the emotions involved are universal, these themes provide an excellent framework in which to explore various expositions about what makes life worthwhile and how it should be lived. It looks at how, in Lord Byron's case, money and fame are worthwhile endeavors, and how his work, "Don Juan", is simply a means to an end. It shows that, while the poem has been the subject of countless analyses and interpretations, the fact remains that one of the primary goals of its author was to earn some money by making people "giggle."

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"Byron's narrator is eminently aware of how illusory and arbitrary the promises of marriage are. In support, he maintains that "authors" leave the future state of marriage to faith because they "fear description might disparage ... or fall beneath the expectations of the world" (Byron III. 9). According to the narrator, authors -- that is, writers like him -- are describing marriage because they recognize the gap between the expectations of society and the actual conditions of marriage. It is the narrator's recognition of this gap that leads him to "fear" that such descriptions of marriage will not measure up to high expectations that are associated with them. In other words, the reality will fall far short of the expectations."

Tags:alfonso, divorce, don, gabriel, grimaldi, haid, lambro, lucrezia, tellez

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This paper looks at the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and analyzes his novel, "Don Quixote of La Mancha", as representing the dualistic nature of human personality. It also looks at the novel as a social document with universal meaning.

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"Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is credited with writing "Don Quixote of La Mancha", a work translated into more languages than any other but the Bible. Cervantes was a novelist playwright and poet but only two of his plays are extant...."

Tags:chivalry, honor, knighthood, romance, idealism, realism, Sancho Panza, Don Quixote, Cervantes, literature, human psyche

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This paper discusses the government's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy regarding sexual orientation in the military. The paper specifically discusses Aaron Belkin's article, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Is the Gay Ban Based on Military Necessity?" The paper argues that the lifting of the ban on the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy should be one that is quickly applied to the military.

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"The appropriate reaction of a squadron leader is to decipher who physically started the altercation and to punish them accordingly without interpreting sexual orientation as the cause of the fight. For a squadron commander it should not necessarily matter the cause of the fight only the initiator of the fight and to ensure that the two members do not work closely together until they can settle their differences. In a tight group such as a military squadron, however, altercations should not be very common as has been stated prior, they all have a common goal that unites them. In some cases the squadron leader needs to make other members continually aware of this fact, and this can be accomplished through making both parties of an altercation responsible for the same work detail. This way the members have to communicate and are reminded of their common goals."

Tags:squadron, sexuality, soldier, leader

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In this paper the author looks at the character in Miguel De Cervantes' famous book "Don Quixote". He examines how the central character Don Quixote becomes immersed in a fantasy world in order to escape his ordinary and mundane existence as that of an impoverished and ordinary upper class gentleman. The author portrays how Don Quixote becomes a defender of virtue and righter of wrongs as he trades reality for adventure in the world of his imagination and is no longer an aging gentleman living a quiet life. In conclusion, the author points out that Don Quixote was stripped of his delusions by force and therefore lost the will to live but had he lived in modern times the case may have been different. The author surmises that in modern times Don Quixote could have lived as he chose, a knight in an errant world of adventure and would have been very content.

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"The Knight of the Woods presents himself as a kindred spirit, at once endearing himself in the heart of the great Don. They discuss their separate lady loves and compare experiences. The Knight of the Woods is really the bachelor Samson Carrasco, determined to cure Quixote of his fantasies. Challenging Don to a fight in order to knock sense into him, Carrasco is defeated and knocked from his horse. Don Quixote removes his opponent's helmet and recognizes his face. Rather than accept that he is who is appears to be, Don determines him to be disguised by a wizard or enchanter and marvels at their cunning. He comments on the lengths they will go to in order to defeat one as great as himself. His puffed up ego is again visible. The man has an inflated sense of self worth that is typical in people with delusions of grandeur. The world revolves around them and their ideas. The defeated knight retreats and Don and Sancho resume their journey in victory. Don's opinion that the Knight of the Woods was not really his friend the bachelor Sanson Carrasco dressed as a knight errant is based on the assumption that he can not understand why his friend would do so."

Tags:truth, reality, mind, ethics, adventures, simple, madness, dellusion

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This paper examines "Don Quixote" by Cervantes, a novel that delves deeply into the themes of mental illness and the expectations of society. It discusses how the protagonist's delusional life as Don Quixote is fueled by Spanish society's expectations that a man should be chivalrous, brave and macho and how it is these expectations of society that lead Alonso Quixano to embark on a life as the great, noble adventurer Don Quixote. It analyzes whether this flight into a delusional life and Quixote's myriad of delusional adventures clearly resembles the actions of schizophrenic and considers whether Don Quixote was simply an eccentric and unusual man, rather than mentally ill with schizophrenia.

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"Don Quixote is a book about a man so obsessed with chivalrous ideas that he transforms his life in search of these ideals and a more chivalrous life. Alonso Quixano, a middle-aged man form La Mancha in central Spain becomes obsessed with the chivalrous ideas in the books that he reads. He takes up his sword in a quest to destroy the wicked and defend the helpless. Quixano convinces himself that he is the brave knight, Don Quixote. He persuades the laborer Sancho Panza to follow him on his adventures. He searches for grand adventure on his worn-out horse, Rochinate. He falls in love with the peasant woman, Dulcinea del Toboso, believing that she is a princess."

Tags:adventure, mental, illness, alonso, quixano