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This 9 page paper discusses the motivations of both Sancho and Don Quixote as they journey together. Themes of chivalry, narrative shifts, and characterization are discusses, exampled, and supported with quotes from the text. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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it delights and entertains us while engaging effortlessly with the deepest and most abstract questions of theology, cosmology and metaphysics. With great sweeping speeches Don Quixote satirizes and romanticizes chivalry,
while exampling and asserting those very values in his modes of behavior. Consider the character of Don Quixote. Here is this elderly man who in his own bumbling way tries
to put his antiquated ideas into action in a busy, selfish world, and is constantly ridiculed for his efforts. But, when one starts to consider what is really being
said here, there is a directly sobering thought. Is he stating, albeit with the use of humor and irony the same thing as Dante? That the world is right, and
that those who try to better it are wrong? Though this can hardly be right, because if that is what Cervantes really meant, then that would also mean that through
the course of the novel, the reader would begin to detest the Don more, but the opposite occurs. It almost seems that there may be a double meaning in
which through the use of humor, Quixote makes us laugh about those things that we shouldnt be laughing about at all, and in doing so expose our worst faults, holding
them up for scrutiny. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these romantic medieval values clashed with the new emphasis on reason. At the beginning of the novel, one finds Don
Quixote spending the last years of his life puttering around in his library. He has been a knight of the chivalric era, and believed whole-heartedly in the idea of absolute
truths. Now, in the era in which he finds himself, these truths are challenged. To accept that the absolute truths never existed would be to state that his whole lifes
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