Don Quixote Analysis

Damsels in distress, giants, armies, and duels between knights makes a story exciting but delusions of these things can be just as exciting. In the story “Don Quixote” by Miguel De Cervantes the main character Don Quixote plays a delusional hero who is a knight-errant. Don Quixote goes on adventures fighting delusion battles and facing non existent evil, but within his madness is the purpose of Cervantes ridicule of the hero. Don Quixote is a character that Cervantes uses in a satirical way to have readers rethink the problems of that time. Don Quixote exhibits the characteristics of an epic hero: great warrior, facing supernatural foes, capable of deeds of great strength and courage, and humility throughout the text but he also reveals the point of Cervantes satirizing the heroism.
An epic hero usually establishes himself as a great warrior before going on his adventure; Don Quixote does this when he is dubbed a knight. Don Quixote is at an inn and as he is guarding his armor he starts to attack the muleteers in doing so he wakes up the other people from the inn (Cervantes 400). The innkeeper upon hearing the ruckus begs Don Quixote to leave he only leaves though once he is dubbed a knight by the innkeeper. The innkeeper “commanded him to kneel [and]
Quixote was a character that wanted to do good in the world to right people's wrongs in his own delusion way as a knight. The adventures of Quixote ironically imitates that of an epic hero by Cervantes so that his readers could perceive the problems within the world from a different perspective. Don Quixote may have not really saved damsels in distress, fought giants, or massive armies but he did give his reader a new almost comical way to see problems that were conveyed of that