3 Don Quixote Quotes

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"Don Quixote"}}, fully titled (Part I) "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha" (Part II: "The Ingenious Knight" (El ingenioso caballero) is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of a nameless Hidalgo (nobility)/hidalgo (at the end of Part II given the name Alonso Quixano) who reads so many Romance (heroic literature)/chivalric novels that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is, and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. The story implements various themes, such as intertextuality, Realism (arts)/realism, metatheatre, and Representation (arts)/literary representation.