Analysis Of Don Miguel De Cervantes And Don Quixote

Don Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is deemed as a timeless masterpiece for several reasons, one of which being how the personalities of characters not only drives the plot forward and appease the reader, but also causes the idle reader to deeply introspect. Cardenio is first introduced in Chapter XXIV as a heartbroken bipolar madman with astonishing speed and an animalistic appearance, but this characterization changes as he interacts with other characters and as the plot is driven forward. Comparisons between Cardenio’s character and actions can be easily made with that of Don Quixote. This analytical approach to the relationship between the two characters reveals the voice of Cervantes. Cardenio is a young noble man with a broken heart

Both characters have physically escaped from society, from the physical causes of their pain. Yet Cardenio and Don Quixote are haunted by memories and deceived by hope, unable to escape until death or reunion. Don Quixote’s profession of being a knight errant involves violence, but not unnecessary, unprovoked, and rash violence. He sees and hears a call to action, when in reality, as indicated by Sancho’s cries, the image that Quixote creates is false. It is as if he is wearing a pair of glasses whose lenses diffuse reality into a make believe world filled with castles, giants, knights, damsels, and most important of all, it fills the world with fantasy calls to arms for a knight such as Don Quixote. His reasoning behind the supposed need for violence is a laughable hallucination, and so is his style of heroic fighting. Cardenio due to his heartbreak has evolved into somewhat of an animal, he, like Don Quixote, is also very violent. He has fits of violence where he savagely attacks the peaceful shepherds, who in no way deny him food or shelter. His acts of violence have no reasoning, unlike that of Don Quixote’s, whose are based on fabricated ideas with reasoned