Don Quixote Response

Michael B Reader response ( sire Quixote) Don Quixote is an alias taken up by a middle venerable man in La Mancha Spain who has operate himself mad through the cross-fileing of one-time(a) chivalrous stories that tell of horse cavalrys and great battles. He soon decides to become a cavalry and after finding and fixes his old family arms sets off for adventures and glory. Obviously these books have had rudimentary effects on him as he loses his grip on reality. The first contingency happens when he comes upon an student lodging that he believes to be a castle where he insists that the innkeeper, who he believes to be a king, knight him.He spends the stallion night there until he gets into a fight with some men who tense to take his armor out of their mules trough and he attacks them. before long after the innkeeper pronounces him a knight simply to be rid of him. Cervantes draws the proofreader in with his use of Don Quixotes perspective. Quixote sees what his imaginat ion creates from these stories hes read and non what is actually there or happening. Later after he leaves the inn Don Quixote hears crying and comes across a boy being flogged by a farmer.When questioned the farmer explains that the boy has been get goinging in his duties but the boy tells Quixote that the farmer has not been compensateing him. Don Quixote hearing this thinks that the farmer is a knight and tells the man to fee the boy. When the boy tries to explain that the farmer is not a knight Quixote ignores him and asks the farmer to declargon on his knighthood that he will pay the boy and once Quixote leaves the farmer continues to puzzle the boy but this time much severely.Cervantes here gives us a complete example of why the young terminal figure quixotism was coined from the novel Don Quixote. The description of quixotism is when someone has succumbed to misguided idealism. In this scene Don Quixote because of his misplaced trustfulness in the old stories of valour intervenes in a situation and only succeeds in making things worse for the boy he had originally tried to help.Another example of this Quixotism in the novel is when Don Quixote attacks a windmill believing it to be giants and ends up making himself look foolish in front of his squire who for some savvy tries to ignore the fact that his master is understandably unhinged mentally. This brings to mind that although Quixotes actions are admirable they are doomed to fail because he is out of touch with the humankind he lives in. Both of these situations show that our intentions in time admirable may succumb to ill fortune if the onsequences of our actions are not considered. Opposingly it was G. K. Chesterton a British journalist of the time that claims that by constitution from this perspective it made it difficult for modern men and women (of their time) to take the values of chivalry seriously. Don Quixote can be looked at from many different angles whether they be as a commentary on chivalry, a comedy, or even a much philosophical way considering the idealism Don Quixote is so known for.