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A 20 page paper which examines how the author masterfully employed humor to create a unique heroic characterization. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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live. The knight and his allegiance to the chivalric code personified the heroic ideal, as classical works spun elaborate yarns of gallant warriors serving king and country while saving
lovely damsels in distress. Alonso Quixano, the protagonist of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedras masterpiece, Don Quixote de la Mancha, was a middle-aged lover of chivalric tales who wishes to
become the true living embodiment of the fictional hero. But he needs to shake up the conventional status quo to do so. Out of necessity he becomes an
upside-down hero, who rewrites the concept of what a hero should be. Cervantes is able to accomplish this by a masterful blending of fact and fiction, realism and fantasy.
Don Quixotes trusted weapon is his sword; Cervantes weapon of choice is humor, which he uses to probe deeply into the essence of the Western hero to find out
whether it is more style or substance. His humorous arsenal includes sharp-edged parody and absurdity to the extreme that may wound the ideal, but never pierce the determination of
the heroic Don Quixote. In Part I, Don Quixote, the newly fashioned (and appropriately renamed) knight-errant, does everything by the book. But
by Part II, he doesnt rely on books to lead the way. He is confident enough in his own abilities to chart his own noble course. He no
longer needs the classics or even Cervantes to define his role. In a sense, the man and the heroic ideal have become one. But humor is never far
away, as Don Quixotes determination to remain true to the heroic ideal is mocked by others, including his own creator. This represents the disillusionment of fifteenth-century Spanish society with
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