blog




  • Essay / Characteristics and Chivalry in Don Quixote By Miguel...

    Don Quixote is truly filled with a humanist ideal of chivalry, but he completely separates it from reality. The first adventure of Don Quixote looks very comical, especially when he fought with the windmills, he saw them as giants. This battle with the windmills seemed to him the greatest battle of good and evil. In everything, he sees the intrigues of the evil sorcerer, whom he must necessarily win in order to "wipe bad seeds from the face of the earth." And even when he hits the wing of the mill, and falls injured, he does not see reality. He thinks another magician helped him. “It seems obvious to me,” replied Don Quixote, “that you are not very knowledgeable about adventures: they are giants; and if you are afraid, step aside and start praying while I enter with them into a fierce and unequal situation.