Don Quixote de la Mancha y Dulcinea
According to the unknown authorship thesis that I have guided to understand this figure, the following “Cervantes had an idealistic conception regarding love and this is seen in his entire work. He, professes an indestructible faith in love, as a supreme force that gives meaning to life. In this way the love of Don Quixote is understood ”. Since Don Quixote was a gentleman, or that was convinced, all the walking knights had a code for love, in fact it was one of his fundamental requirements. Don Quixote carried that courteous love that serves as starting in all his adventures and battles.
Don Quijote chose as his dulcinea to the peasant Aldonza Lorenzo, he was truly not even the ideal of beauty since his face was full of the marks that smallpox had left and its constitution was thick but the "sick" mind of DonQuijote transformed her idealizing her, her muse returned by renowing her as Dulcinea del Toboso to which she seemed like a princess, because in all the books that Quijote read all the ladies of the Knights belonged to the nobility. To understand what I say, I refer to a quijote appointment in chapter 13 “it cannot be that there is a walkless gentleman, because so own and natural to such being in love as to heaven to have stars (…) it would not be had forlegitimate gentleman, but for bastard ".
Despite this strong love of Don Quixote towards Dulcinea it is a purely platonic love. He does not think at any time to confess it and even less to ask for marriage because Don Quijote in aware of the impossibility of that pure and passionate love. An example of this can be seen in the quotation said by Quijote "my loves and his (Dulcinea) have always been Platonic, without extending to more and an honest look". In addition to part of the Platonism of this love Don Quijote was disdained by her and regrets the cruelty of "her ungrateful lovedsure that she will infuse her value.
Guiating by Cervantes’s novel, Don Quijote’s love to Dulcinea did not appear out of nowhere, or caused by the madness of reading innumerable books of cavalries, but in his time as a sanity Alonso Quijano was really in love with Aldonza Lorenzo,However, she never realized. This is also explained by Roberto González Echevarría in his book (Love and The Law in Cervantes) “That a gentleman like Don Quijote fell in love with a woman younger than him and a lower social status was not strange in the seventeenth century and theMarriages were not impossible ”, however, this love is not real at all because in reality Quixote within his madness needs to be in love with Dulcinea idealizing that love in order to become a walking gentleman because he needs a lady to whom to dedicate his exploits.
Even this being this real Don Quijote proclaims his love for her throughout his work affirming that it serves as inspiration. This love really is not what moves it but this does positively influence. It is for all this that Dulcinea is his love during all his stage in which Alonso Quijano believes he walker because in his deathbed no longer remembers even Dulcinea or the love he once felt for her because the Mure sane. Referring to an issue said previously in which there was talk of the sadness of Don Quijote of the disdain shown by his beloved Dulcinea because his love was not reciprocated. This is because in the Middle Ages when a gentleman was disdained by his beloved they had two options: to carry out follies to get the attention of his beloved or do penance.
Don Quijote opted for the second of the options, as well as Cervantes’s novel, Quijote left for Sierra Morena where he scourge and suffered bitterly for his beloved Dulcinea, after performing this penance he orders Sancho to go to Toboso to get aLetter to Dulcinea in which Don Quijote tells the penance he is doing and explaining it why.
In conclusion, the unknown author of this thesis says "Don Quijote is a poet and Dulcinea her most beautiful love poem" phrase that is demonstrated in the novel when Quijote says "I imagine that everything I say is like that" and "in my imaginationas desire ". This selfless and pure love is also demonstrated in the next phrase "She fights in me and expires in me and I live and breathe in her and I have life and be"
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