Don Quixote
By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Made by Andrew Wang
Don Quixote- A Knight Errant
957 Pages
There are 957 pages in Don Quixote.
Summary of Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a middle aged hidalgo who has been so obsessed with reading knight-errant novels that he decides to be one himself. He firsts finds his nag, and then accompanies himself with his trusty squire, Sancho Panza. He explores the area around his village, fighting windmills that he believes are giants, and intercepting friars from the church. Sancho tries his best to correct his master's outlandish fantasies. Eventually, his friends drag him home. He escapes and continues his journey, fighting everyday items that, in his mind, are giants and other creatures.
Scene: Armour
Don Quixote is shown cleaning his armour. His nag, Rocinante, is shown standing behind him. Don Quixote's armour is an old set of armour, so he created an ill-devised visor to replace the original broken one.
Theme in Don Quixote
The point of view in Don Quixote is 3rd person.
Theme of Don Quixote
The theme in Don Quixote is to have a middle ground between you and others. When Don Quixote became a knight errant, the feudal times are past many hundred years. This conflict between the old and the new reaches an impasse : no one understands Don Quixote, and he understands no one. This theme can be applied to my life by finding this said "middle ground" in life. Sancho Panza is very good at this, and he acts like the translator for Don Quixote and the normal peoples.
Rocinante, Don Quixote's horse
Don Quixote had an old nag that he used as his transportation. It looked like this one, and was well past its zenith.
Sancho Panza
Sancho Panza, Don Quixote's primary communicator between Don Quixote and the rest of the population, is shown here in a drawing. He has a donkey, quite short compared to Rocinante; he is also quite short compared to Don Quixote.
Windmills
Don Quixote commonly thought that windmills were giants, and so he attacked them. Sancho Panza warned him, and gave him first aid after his unfortunate, but purposeful, encounter with them. Shown here is a picture of him attacking one.