Analysis Of Miguel Of Cervantes Saavedra - 1581 Words

Abstract Miguel of Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer who lived in the late 1500’s in the Spanish Empire at the time of Charles V. This first part of this novel was published in 1605 and the second part in 1615 as it was very common at the time. Cervantes was a Spanish soldier when he was a young lad. Cervantes accomplished a very audacious life and had a lot of weird and odd experiences like getting thrown into a Turkish prison or losing his left hand in the Battle of Lepanto, giving him the nickname â€Å"El Manco de Lepanto† (handicapped with one arm). This book was written to make fun of books about heroes/chivalry and all that medieval stuff, which was composed of romances, poems and epic stories. The â€Å"hero† in this book is a crazy chap who loses all of his fantasy â€Å"battles† and makes mistake after mistake. He also misunderstands people and puts on them attributes that they do not possess. The Knight of the Woeful Figure, as he is called, is a d reamer or a sleep-walker to say the least. However, everybody thought that Alonso Quixano was a crazy old coot, but only at the end the reader will notice that Don Quixote was not crazy at all†¦ The story has a key message, a moral. The main characters are Alonso Quixano, who shall become Don Quixote of La Mancha, Sancho Panza whose translation could be Sancho Pot-belly. He is Don Quixote’s squire and servant. He pretends that the old man is not crazy, because he thinks that he can make good money by serving him. The list ofShow MoreRelatedEssay Analysis of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra1423 Words   |  6 PagesThe novel opens by briefly describing Don Quixote and his fascination with chivalric stories. With his wits gone;, Don Quixote decides to become a knight and ream the country side righting wrong and rescuing damsels in distress. He outfits himself in some old armor and professes his love and service to Aldonsa Lorenzo whom he refers to as Dulcinea Del Toboso. After a long hot ride on his horse he comes upon an inn which he thinks is a castle and the innkeeper whom he believes to be the king. ThatRead MoreThe Pre Cide Hamete Deflationist Character Of Cervantess Authorship Of Shakespeares Don Quixote1011 Words   |  5 Pages1 All citations from Don Quixote I-II come from the following edition of the book: Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quijote de La Mancha. Ed. Francisco Rico. Instituto Cervantes: Barcelona, 1998. Print. 2 In this sense, the role of the pre-Cide Hamete deflationist character of Cervantes s authorship of/in Don Quixote I-II as hinted at in the late stages of this prologue and subsequently throughout the book, is to be understood as part of his strategy to insists on the importance of linguistic self-awareness