The Parody Adventure Of Don Quixote By Miguel Cervantes

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In the parody adventure of Don Quixote, written by Miguel Cervantes, Don lives in a state of disillusionment. He believes that he is a knight-errant with a horse named Rocinante and a lady named Dulcinea del Toboso. He promises a peasant named Sancho Panza governorship of an island in exchange for his services as a squire. Sancho is not at all like Don. Through their conflicts and characterizations, we find out more about the story. Don Quixote’s conflicts, characters, themes, point of view, and structure all allow us to decipher what exactly the author wanted us to take away from this story of misguided adventure.

As we examine the conflicts you’d be surprised to find that in this adventure novel there are not a lot of examples of man versus man conflict. Most of the conflict that we see is man versus self. Don is delusional and out of touch with reality. His desire to be like the characters in the stories he read conflicts with his sanity. “Over conceits of this sort the poor gentleman lost his wits, and used to lie awake trying to understand them and worm the meaning out of them”. Also, Sancho is conflicted because he tries to bring Don back to reality but he cannot. He struggles to …show more content…

He would be classified as a round and dynamic character. The change that he experiences occurs very early on in the story. We watch him slowly lose touch with reality and then name himself “Don Quixote.” He is round because the story is about his life so we are given a good deal of information about him. We see examples of direct characterization in chapter 1: “The age of this gentleman of ours was bordering on fifty; he was of a hardy habit, spare, gaunt-featured, a very early riser and a great sportsman.” This tells us about his age, stature, waking habits, and athletic ability. Sancho and Don, the main characters of this story, may be noticeably different but this does not matter because of their great

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