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.

From the Paper
"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
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

Abstract
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.

From the Paper
"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 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.

From the Paper
"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

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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 how Cervantes uses the notion that it was Don Quixote's books that drove Don Quixote mad in the novel of the same name since at the time of the Inquisition and book-burnings were common. It looks at how Don Quixote made up fantastical stories to explain nearly everything he saw, from ordinary inns to ordinary women to ordinary windmills.

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"Carrasco tries again, this time as the "Knight of the Full Moon." He approaches Don Quixote dressed in his barber's bowl for a helmet and his "suit of armor," and challenges him to a duel. Carrasco had no trouble figuring out how to fit into Quixote's delusion; all he had to do was read the books the Don had read. Carrasco challenges Quixote to the duel. The purpose of the duel is to determine whether the lady Carrasco honors or the lady Quixote honors is more beautiful. If Carrasco loses, he will acknowledge Dulcinea as the most beautiful and virtuous woman in all Christendom. However, if Quixote loses, he must return to his village, a beaten man."

Tags:carrasco, dulcinea

Abstract
This paper discusses Plato's concern that a fictional work of literature could negatively influence the malleable minds of a younger audience. The paper relates that this concern is evident in Plato's "Republic" and then looks at how Miguel de Cerventes' "Don Quixote" lends support to this concern, as the main character, Don Quixote, is driven insane by the fictional stories that he enjoyed. The paper concludes that it was because fictional tails of such fantastic adventures of knights were allowed in Spain that Don Quixote was able to get his hands on these books, and fall under their spell. They inspired vast delusions in him, just as Plato said such writings could if they were not censored.

From the Paper
"Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote is the story of a man, who, accompanied by his loyal squire, participated in activities based on the delusions inspired by the books that he read. Don Quixote was at first a normal, honorable man, but after reading a great many books and stories about the chivalrous and challenging adventures of knights, he became of the opinion that he was indeed a knight himself, and that the stories he had read were actually incorporated into the world he experienced. He would produce beliefs, based on the readings that he had scoured, that simple objects and people of the world were actually characters present in the adventures of the greatest knight who ever was, as he often considered himself."

Tags:delusion, books, spain

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In this article, the writer discusses the long novel 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The writer notes that Saavedra tells the story of a country gentleman in Spain, Alonso Quixano, who loses himself in romantic novels of knights-errant and roamed the countryside helping those who couldn't help themselves, administering personal justice when they find someone has been wronged. The writer points out that the entire book is based on illusions built up in layers, as some people Don Quixote knows or meets decide to go along with his delusional ideas. The writer concludes that the real nature of Don Quixote's illusion is that he wants the world to be a better place than it really is. The writer explains that rather than work within reality to try to make the world a better place, he makes up a world that actually only exists in books, and tries to force the rest of the world to conform to his chivalric standards.

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"One of the most famous examples of how Don Quixote redefines what he sees around him is when he comes upon a field of windmills in Chapter VIII. While it is clear to Sancho, who is playing the part of the "knight's" squire for his own reasons, that the objects they see are merely windmills, Don Quixote sees a field full of evil giants. Shouting that he is only one while they are many, he lowers his lance and charges toward the "giants." The lance gets caught in a windmill blade, and both Don Quixote and his horse are sent flying. Don Quixote insists afterwards that an evil enchanter turned the giants into windmills at the last moment to make Don Quixote look foolish."

Tags:illusions, fantasy, world, reality

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The paper explains that when Don Quixote's nature as a daydreamer rather than madman is accepted, the story becomes all the more tragic because, in this case, the main character chooses fantasy in order to escape what he finds unacceptable in reality. The author points out that, politically, the novel warns against an over-idealization of political and philosophical systems of the past; refusing to adjust to the reality of the world tends to destroy rather than uplift. The paper relates that, despite the fact that Cervantes suggests madness, the way in which Don Quixote goes about being 'mad' suggests organization and intelligence, whereas, madness suggests chaos.

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"At the start of the book, Don Quixote is portrayed as a middle-aged man. He is at a stage in his life where there is little to hope for in the future, and most accomplishments lie in the past. To substitute his lost youth, the main character buries himself in stories of the past. He does this to such an intense degree that he feels the need to bring his fantasies to the context of his physical world. This is then the catalyst for his apparent madness."

Tags:daydreamer, fantasy, escape, political, over-idealization

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A paper which shows how reality and illusion are interwoven not only throughout the story line of Don Quixote exploits, but how author, Miguel de Cervantes, even leaves the true authorship of this tale in question, suggesting that he is merely translating the story from the original writings of Cide Hamete. The paper discusses the madness of Don Quixote who sees people and objects in his everyday life as the counterparts in his knights and damsels world of chivalry, and how Don Quixote charging the windmills has become a classic scene and now serves to symbolize bravery in vain.

From the Paper
"Cervantes begins Part Two of Don Quixote again referring to the writings of Cide Hamete, thus, lending credence to both, Don Quixote and Hamete as real historic characters (Cervantes, 529). This further adds confusion between reality and fantasy. Throughout the novel there are countless scenes crossing the line of reality and illusion. The deathbed scene is perhaps the most poignant, for at the end, even though he himself had given up his chivalrous life and rejoined society, the others around him were still holding on to his fantastic world of knights and damsels in distress. But Don Quixote speaks, "I am no longer Don Quixote of La Mancha, but Alonso Quixana.""

Tags:Alonso, Quixano, knighthood, Sancho, Cide, Hame, Miguel, de, Cervantes