The ingenious Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Saavedra. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in September 1547, in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. During his life he had several occupations in addition to a writer;He fought in numerous wars and also had other small occupations. Lately his occupation as a writer was the most important, he wrote twelve novels that were published under a title: exemplary novels of honest entertainment. But, tragically, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra never received fame for the novels, poems, and dramas that were written with a critical eye to the Society of Spain. However, today, he is the most celebrated and important Spanish writer, this celebration and importance is dedicated to Don Quijote de la Mancha, the work that won his fame. Don Quixote de la Mancha was written in two parts;The first was published in 1605 and the second in 1615 – only a year before Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra died. Now Don Quijote de la Mancha has been translated into more than 60 languages and is shown through Spain and Spanish classes around the world.
Don Quixote de la Mancha is one of the numerous narratives, specifically novels, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The scenario of the novel is Spain during the 16th century. In Don Quijote de la Mancha there are several characters, but they fit into different categories: main and secondary. The main characters are Don Quijote and Sancho Panza. Don Quixote (previously Alonso Quijano) is an old fifty -year -old man, thin with a beard, who is very friendly but dreams a lot. He drove crazy because he believes he is a gentleman (for reading so many gentlemen’s books) who must correct the errors of the world with cavalry. Sancho Panza is a peasant of La Mancha who is a neighbor of Don Quijote. Sancho Panza becomes the squire of Don Quijote because Don Quijote promised him an island and money, Sancho Panza accompanied him in his missions to correct the mistakes of the world, while he gives wisdom to the madman Don Quijote. The secondary characters are Rocinante, Dulcinea del Toboso, La Ama, La Niebe, El Cura, the Bachelor Samsón Carrasco, and Nicolás the Barber. Rocinante is Don Quijote’s horse, he takes Don Quijote during all his adventures and expeditions – while he was rammed as Don Quijote. Dulcinea del Toboso (her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo) is the woman Don Quijote dedicates all her adventures and battles A, but, she does not even know that she is happening and never appears in the novel. The mistress and the niece lives in Don Quijote’s house and are always worried with his mental condition. The priest, the bachelor Samsón Carrasco, and Nicolás the barber are friends with Don Quixote who worry about his mental state and are also always present to help and spend time with Don Quijote. Through the novel there are other characters that Don Quijote and Sancho Panza are, such as the characters of the sale, the street, and the forest, in the adventures but they are not permanent or important. For most time, this novel is narrated in the third omniscient person;But, in some moments Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (the author) changes to the first person to discuss details of the book.
Through Don Quijote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra tries to teach that the influence of cavalry is unnecessary and also made a little commentary (and entertainment) about life in Spain.
Chapter I
"That deals with the condition and exercise of the famous and brave Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha," he presents Alonso Quijano (who has a surname discussed – an effort of the author so that the novel is believed to be more true) who lives in theStain with her niece and a mistress. Don Quijote spent a lot about his time reading books about the cavalry and liked the complicated phrases of the elderly knights. Lately he read cavalry books too much and lost his wisdom and believed that the books were completely true. Because of his lack of wisdom, Alonso Quijano decided to be a gentleman and grabbed his gun, built a lightningbe her love and changed her name to Dulcinea del Toboso.
Chapter II
‘That deals with the first exit that Don Quijote’s ingenious made from his land,” Don Quijote began his journey to first being named Knight and then changing the mistakes of the world and inciting justice. Tonight came to sale – but he thought it was a castle, similarly thought that women in sale (prostitutes) were beautiful princesses. When the vent found Don Quijote, he invited his night to eat and spend the night. During his time in the sale, Don Quijote changes his reality to a more embellished one – imagined that the food was much more sophisticated than reality, he thought that the sale was much more elegant than reality, and believed that the residents of the "Castillo"He treated him with much respect. Above all, during this chapter, Don Quijote was very concerned with the reality that has not yet been named a gentleman.
Chapter III
“Where is the funny way Don Quijote had to make a gentleman,” Don Quijote was still in the sale. The Vintero told him that he will appoint gentleman on the following day, but also asked Don Quijote if he has money and medicine. Don Quijote replied that he did not have, because in the books of Knights they did not have, and the watchman told him that he must have money and medicine. Tonight Don Quijote picked up his gun and put on a battery and began to walk in front of the battery. While it passed in front of the battery and its weapon, visitors of the sale comes to the battery to collect water for your animals. When those visitors tried to play Don Quijote’s weapon, he said they must stop and when Don Quixote stopped they hit his spear. Don Quijote did it again with another visitor and lately the friends of the visitors were angry and came to assault him with rocks. When the watchman gave a story about what was happening, he said that Don Quixote was crazy and they must stop immediately. El Vantero made the decision to appoint Don Quixote a gentleman at this time for him to leave. He made the ceremony in the courtyard, and the Vintero crashed Don Quijote in the neck and shoulders to "formally" name a gentleman. After his ceremony, Don Quijote left with Rocinante in search of adventure.
Chapter IV
From what happened to our gentleman when he left the sale, ”Don Quijote decided to return to La Mancha to collect money, medicine, and a squire. While he was returning to La Mancha, he heard the screams of a boy in the forest. Don Quixote thought it was an adventure and decided to investigate. In the forest there was a farmer whipping a boy, Don Quijote told him to stop. The farmer said the boy has lost a number of sheep and deserves penalty. That doesn’t matter to Don Quixote and demanded that the farmer for abuse and also pays the boy. Unfortunately, when Don Quijote left the farmer whipped the boy worse than before. During his trip to La Mancha Don Quijote he finds a group of merchants who confused for gentlemen and, as he has read in his cavalry books, he told them that he must admit that Dulcinea del Toboso is the most beautiful thing in the world in the world. The merchants told Don Quijote, but the joke enrages him and decided to attack the merchants. Lately, Rocinante tripped and Don Quijote was on the ground where a merchant whips and leave him.
Chapter v
Where the narration of our gentleman’s misfortune continues, ”Don Quijote was badly injured in the center of the road and to spend time he recited fragments of a book. Lately a farmer named Pedro Alonso de la Mancha arrived and recognized Don Quijote and helped return to La Mancha. While Pedro Alonso helped, Don Quijote talked about his beliefs that he was a gentleman and that Pedro Alonso was a gentleman too. When they finally arrived at La Mancha, Pedro Alonso brought Don Quijote to his own house where the priest, the barber, the loves, and the niece were worrying about Don Quijote. The farmer told the story truth to the priest while Don Quijote said his imaginary reality to the rest of the group – who thinks he is crazy.
Chapter VIII
Of the good event that the courageous Don Quijote had in the frightening and never imagined adventure of the wind mills, with other events worthy of felice remembrance, ”Don Quijote and his squire, Sancho Panza, left La Mancha and reached many mills ofwind. The reality is that they are wind mills, but, Don Quijote imagined that they were giants with very long arms. Sancho Panza objected it, but Don Quijote attacked him and finally the wind mills destroyed his spear. To replace his spear, he made one of a tree. Tonight did not sleep, nor ate, because he was thinking about Dulcinea del Toboso – his love. Lately the two men began to travel again and found a group of travelers. Don Quixote thought they were friars who have abducted a princess and that is why he attacked the friars with his spear (tree). When Don Quijote arrived at the woman, or "the princess," ask him to present Dulcinea del Toboso and explain the adventure and battle. Lately one of the coachmen listened and told Don Quijote to leave but finally they faced in combat. At the end of chapter Don Quixote is close to the coachman, but the narrator (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) said that the author for the story Ayi.
Chapter IX
"Where the great battle is concluded and end. He explained that it was frustrated that the story ends so early, and that is why the final part of the story was sought. Lately he told him that he found the second part in Toledo, but they were written in Arabic. Therefore, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra looked for a Moorish who spoke Spanish to translate the text. After that, the narrator returns to narrate in the third omniscient person. The story begins where he left in chapter VIII, said that the coachman hit Don Quijote first and this blow took part in Don Quijote’s ear and his celad. The retaliation of Don Quixote was that he attacked the coachman in the head, and lately the coachman fell from his horse while he was bleeding enough. At the end of chapter IX, Don Quijote decided not to kill the coachman or the women in the car because they said they are going to Dulcinea del Toboso to tell the triumph of Don Quijote de la Mancha.
Chapter XXIV
“How Don Quixote fell bad and the testament he made and his death,” Don Quijote has returned home in the village of La Mancha. In his house he slept for many days because he had a depression for his failure to be a gentleman and fix the errors of the world. After many days of sleeping, he lay down and said that he has covered his health and his state of madness was the fault of cavalry books. Don Quijote knew that he was close to dead, and did not want to die crazy, and that’s why he calls the priest and his friends to confess. When the friends arrived, Don Quijote told them that now Alonso Quijano "the good" is now hates. Alonso Quijano Health "The Good" turned out that his friends accept that his friend will die. When the priest arrived, he took the confession of Alonso Quijano "El Good" and made that he will die in the near future. Don Quijote began to create his will, in the will decided to give part of his money to Sancho Panza (an apology for crazy adventures) and another part to his mistress. He also said that her niece cannot hunt with a man who has read cavalry books, if she hunt a man who has read those books she has to lose her inheritance. Lately, after three days, Don Quijote died with his friends near and an intact health.
Above all, Don Quixote de la Mancha of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is a novel with adventure, entertainment, and affectionate moments. This novel has the organizing themes of literary creation and interpersonal relationships. It is part of literary creation because Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra enters the novel to talk about how he creates the work in an effort that the novel really appears. It is part of the interpersonal relationships because it shows the interactions that Don Quijote has with many people, friends, and family. What this novel teaches is that cavalry books could be bad and invade their mind – changing their health.
Reflections
- The irony of what the narrator said in chapter I that Don Quijote. What normally happens when people read, has not happened.
- When things are not named. People are more likely to forget them. When things if they receive names, people can remember better and things have specific identities.
- Don Quixote’s purposes in his role as a gentleman were to help the world, correct the mistakes of the world, and fight for justice. What Don Quixote saw that he confused with a castle was a sale.
- What Don Quijote asks the venter/Spanish was that the ventor appointed him a gentleman. It is important that this rite be carried out because Don Quijote could not continue his gentleman’s adventures if he was not a gentleman.
- That literary genre is a romance verse on Marqués de Mantua. Don Quijote’s neighbor said he was not Marqués de Mantua and lately helped Don Quixote to return to La Mancha.
- When Sancho reminds him that he had told him that they were mills and not giant Don Quijote is justified for saying that Sancho Panza was not accustomed to the adventures he participated in and that he must pray if he was afraid.
- The implicit author wishes to find information about Don Quijote’s life because there was no end to the story and the author thought it was necessary to have one. Finally a boy was selling brochures, and some had the story of Don Quijote. They were written in Arabic. A Moorish who spoke Spanish translated the text to Spanish for the narrator.
- In his mortal bed Don Quijote denies his name Don Quijote de la Mancha, his cavalry, and lately cavalry books. Don Quijote blames for his madness to cavalry books.
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