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    have similar as well as distinctive qualities was Sir Gawain from "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚" and Don Quixote from "Don Quixote de la Mancha". These two characters just stood out to me. They both had moral and cultural values; some were more obvious than others. In Sir Gawain and The Green Knight‚ Sir Gawain’s character carried out every description of the pinnacle; the pinnacle of loyalty‚ honor‚ integrity‚ and chivalry. Each one of Sir Gawain’s challenges helped test and prove that he

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    When first reading Cervantes’ Don Quixote‚ one may easily assume Don Quixote had lost his sanity. He dreamed of traveling Spain‚ saving maidens from harm and bringing justice to all corners of the land. However‚ Don Quixote’s relatives‚ friends‚ and any people he encounters quickly conclude that Don Quixote can no longer form intelligent thoughts. Even the reader may fall into this misconception‚ however‚ beneath Don Quixote’s seemingly simple character lies a man with an ambition like many other

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    DON QUIXOTE The novel opens by briefly describing Don Quixote and his fascination with chivalric stories. With his “wits gone”‚ Don Quixote decides to become a knight and ream the country side righting wrong and rescuing damsels in distress. He outfits himself in some old armor and professes his love and service to Aldonsa Lorenzo whom he refers to as Dulcinea Del Toboso. After a long hot ride on his horse he comes upon an inn which he thinks is a castle and the innkeeper

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    Nick Gonzales “Don Quixote” Cervantes novel “Don Quixote” was written back in 1500’s. The main character Don Quixote is from the region La Mancha located in central Spain. While he was a man of a sound‚ mind‚ and reason. His reading of many books about chivalry had a very strong effect on his mentality. Don Quixote reveals himself thru a mental process in which the real world has been distorted in his perception of impractical mental behavior. Don Quixote sets out with Snacho on a chivalric

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    Don Quixote Summary Miguel de Cervantes’s two-part novel "Don Quixote" is a seventeenth-century story of the title character’s exploits‚ which are likened to the activities of a Good Samaritan or Robin Hood. In the first part of "Don Quixote‚" Cervantes explains the origin of the character. His former name is Alonso Quijano. At the beginning of the story‚ he is an older gentleman. He loves to read romances‚ but he seeks adventure. He decides to dub himself a knight and begins to seek ways to perform

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    Don Quixote‚ mysterious and fascinating figure‚ brought to the creation of many versions of the work in various disciplines . Due to importance of the book‚ Don Quixote was studied through different arts: in fact there are many adaptations in films‚ comics‚ paintings and ballets as well. Every adaptation has different ways to show the protagonist of the literary text‚ written by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. However‚ considerable success was reached in the ballets and

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    especially in medieval and the early modern era. While Song of Roland and Don Quixote are accounts from a different time era‚ similar compelling themes are presented in the stories. Both texts revolve around the novels namesake protagonists and through their lives show a bit about the culture during the era. Not taking the advice of a companion stands as a recurring event which unfolds in both Song of Roland and Don Quixote. The protagonist’s irrationality prevents the employment of friend’s advice

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    Don Quixote In the story the author uses many situations and circumstances to demonstrate loyalty. Loyalty is the state or quality of being loyal‚ faithfulness to commitments or obligations. Don Quixote is a man that believes in being loyal‚ and he expects the people that he encounters to be the same way. In one situation in the book‚ Don rolled up on a farmer beating his servant. That made Don furious and he could not believe what he was seeing. After a conversation with the boy and the farmer

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    Literature Don Quixote Essay “With these word and phrases the poor gentleman lost his mind‚” (Cervantes 20). In the beginning of Don Quixote‚ the reader is introduced to a man engulfed in chivalric books‚ who soon loses his mind in the stories of knighthood. Don Quixote is labeled as an insane man by the narrator who soon proves this statement through Don Quixote’s delusions and eccentric behaviors. As the narrator describes the delusions‚ the narrator’s tone is overly mocking towards Don Quixote’s

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    World Lit 10 November 2010 Don Quixote Response In Don Quixote the prologue‚ he speaks of writing his story and how it will not meet the standards of many other great writings. He say “with a tale that is as dried as a rush‚ a stranger to invention‚ paltry in style‚ improvised in content‚ and wholly lacking in learning and wisdom‚ without marginal citations or notes at the end of the book when other works of this sort‚ even though they be fabulous and profane‚ are so packed

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