[Surname] Name: Tutor: Course: Date: “Don Quixote” on Chivalry and Romance Miguel de Cervantes came up with influential literature back in 1605 in form of a novel. Don Quixote that is fully titled as “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha” is regarded as a great work of fiction. The novel is about a hopeless romantic who is almost clocking 50 years of age that ends up losing his mind, Mr. Alonso Quixano “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading. His brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” He then decides to venture out on a quest with the help of a recruited squire, Sancho Panza, to bring back the concept of chivalry under an alias, Don Quixote de la Mancha. Chivalry is the act of men behaving courteously and generously towards women, orphans and the trodden upon, a practice that is often associated with being a knight[Mig13]. Mr. Alonso Quixano had read so many books on the subject of chivalry that his perception was messed up with and his mental state compromised. Mr. Quixano decides to follow in the footsteps of the chivalrous men he read about in his books “I am in my right mind, now, clear-headed and free of the murky darkness of ignorance, brought upon me by my continual, bitter reading of those abominable books of chivalry.”He changes his name, finds a squire and wears a suit of armour in readiness for his quest “he was spurred on the by the conviction that the world needed his immediate presence.” In his mind, he even has a love interest from a farm girl, Aldonza Lorenzo, who has no knowledge of this and renames her as Dulcinea Del Toboso “For what I want of Dulcinea del Toboso she is as good as the greatest princess in the land…I am quite
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