Saturday, April 27, 2019
Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a satire which is captivated with the idea of being a knight. Quixote regularly tries to represent the hero and ends up causing even more trouble. From the beginning, Don Quixote's conscious efforts to be undoubtedly a noble knight are foolish. His title character "unluckily stumbled upon the oddest fancy that ever entered into a madman's brain," which is to instantly become a wandering knight.Don Quixote does many terrible things throughout the story as an attempt to be a hero, like attacking friars he believes to be enchanters, relaying convicts from a chain gang as he believes no one should be chained and attacking villagers on a parade under the impression they are kidnappers. The irony is typically shown through the practical use of the iconic characters. “I shall never be fool enough to turn knight-errant. For I see quite well that it’s not the fashion now to do as they did in the olden days when they say those famous knights roamed the world”. Don Quixote is fundamentally incapable of accurately distinguishing divine truth from fiction. The innkeeper has been intentionally trying to convince him books of chivalry are not true. He states he will never try to live like Don Quixote because he realizes that being a knight is outdated. This is precisely what undoubtedly inspires Sancho to promptly return to his wife and children because knight-errantry has fallen out of modern fashion. The irony comes through the encouragement of others to have Don Quixote maintain the life he occupies that causes joy to him. As well as, the duke and duchess pretending to be of more superior status than those around them. Which she undoubtedly gains unspeakable joy from the deliberate lies that she is convincingly portraying to Sancho. Just like Sancho, his extensive use of comic satire is what traditionally makes his irony towards Don Quixote believable when he represents the hero he was always meant to be.
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Tiffany,
ReplyDeleteYou made some good points in your blog and I like that you used the word "satire" in there as well, something that I neglected to do throughout my entry. It is true that this piece being so ironic and satirical puts a slightly comedic spin on it as well. It is funny to watch the behaviors of a character externally, as we know who internally they are, or seem to appear. Although reading, the dramatic irony that is presented is most times picture perfect, providing a new insight on the hidden messages within the piece. In terms of the knight-errant, it seems to relate to a modern day issue of people putting others down due to unconventional career paths, but pursuing or showing interest in such a path in private. For example, a friend of mine was almost disgusted at my fiance's choice to get his CDL to drive a larger scale tow truck, rather than a large 18-wheeler, but the ironic part was, a few months later, that same person came to him asking for his study materials for the test so that he could get a job towing cars. Ironic, almost sad, that individuals such as those need to hide behind the expectations and standards that others hold for them, as presented in this story as well.
Ashley, I do agree that the behaviors of the characters are quite different than what they seem to be. The perfect perception of what we think as people may be is not necessarily the best. The way people are so quick to judge also sheds new light into the writing. Irony usually results in judgmental people following within our footsteps are being laughed at for. It is a tragic occurrence that we tend to not realize.
ReplyDeleteTiffany,
ReplyDeleteI noticed that you had said that Don Quixote is "foolish" in his attempts to be a knight- have you considered that his evident departure from reality could come from the source of something else? Perhaps mental illness? Or in the case of the Barnes and Noble edition that I read, simply mad?
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