Man has landed on moon and visited
Mars but has not learnt how to live on earth. It is always ‘I to I’ and ‘I for
I’ attitude. Greed, selfishness, violence and terror has turned earth into a
virtual hell. Great souls Jesus Christ, Buddha and Sankara took birth on earth
to persuade man to tread the right path. There is another tribe, novelist who
have taken a similar path in a different way. They create another world similar
to ours and show us our real face. They mock us in their novels. Jonathan
swift, in Gulliver’s Travels has turned man into Lilliputians (six inch
height). Another writer Cervantes in his novel ‘Don Quixote’ creates a
character called Quixote who does not see the world for what it is. Don Quixote
is a great novel from Spain.
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The novel ‘Don Quixote’ is an
imaginary adventure story of Quixote who always reads chivalric romances and
loses his sanity and sets out to revive chivalry to undo wrongs. He recruits a
simple villager Sancho Panza as his squire. Quixote wants to bring justice to
the world. Sancho panza very wisely uses earthly wit in dealing with Quixote’s
rhetorical orations in antiquated knighthood. Quixote once imagined a
non-existent enemy in the air and fights with that enemy with his sword.
Don Quixote is a great Spanish novel
which had a major influence on the literary community. Throughout the novel,
Cervantes uses literary techniques to make Quixote that he is living a knightly
life. Any unreasonable idea man may have is commonly called as quixotic ideas.
The novel had a direct reference in Alexander Dumas (The Three Musketeers) and Mark Twain (well-known American writer)
philosopher and writer Arthur Schopenhauer said Don Quixote is one of the
greatest novels.
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