Don Quixote Delusions

The book Don Quixote is a book filled with delusion, enchantment and imagination. The whole book is based off of Don Quixote going around thinking he is a knight. Don has read so many books containing kinght in armor, kings and queens, and jousting tournaments that he can no longer distinguish reality from his imagination anymore. Throughout the book several people take advantage of his delusions just to get something from him. THey play along with his game to for thier own gain while Don is noe the wiser. Don's whole world is literally his imagintion with what he thinks are enchantments to carry him from one adventure to another. Throughout the book Don Quixote is literally living inside a fantasy, every inn is a castle and every windmill is a giant. Throughout his quests mighty objects that he must retrieve are nothing more than ordinary object, but not to Don. Today the word quixotic means a person who is foolishly impractical, especially in the pursuit of ideals. That describes Don Quixote perfectly. Don is foolishly impractical

In chapter twenty-four of part one he mets a man called the Ragged Knight, Don greets the knight as if they were old freind but you can tell that they aren't because he has the man tell his story. The mans tells his story anly to be interrupted by Don mentioning that he and a character in the story like the same book. Infuriated by the interruption the Ragged Knight attacks Don and Sancho and then runs for the hill. In the next chapter Don says that he will copy the knights example, and go mad as well because Dulcinea has been unfaithful to him. Sancho mentions that he doesn't know for sure, but Don says that "what he imagines is more important than what has actually happened". Don believes something his imagination has cooked up and he would rather believe that than reality. THis just goes to show how powerful his imagination really is, if it wants him to go