Report about Don Quixote and its Author

From ancient times to the present, tourism has occupied an essential part of people's lives. People travelled between the countries and oceans in search of their happiness and also sought the meaning of life. In the novel Don Quixote written by Miguel de Cervantes, it discussed the functions of travel by telling the story of Don Quixote and his possible experience to describe the function of travel is relevant because it is not only one way to achieve personal dreams, but additionally allows people to support their beliefs and realize the real life in the journey of exploration.

This story took place in Spain, where the knights have been extinct for more than a century. At the time, Spain relied on its colossal cavalry to complete the reunification of the country thought the War of restoration. Because of this, the 15th century became the peak of Spanish knight literature. However, Don Quixote written by Miguel de Cervantes is an anti-cavalier novel. He opposes fancy and bizarre knight novels, exposing criticism and satire on the absurd knight literature pervading the society inside Spain.

To begin with, travel experience helped Don Quixote find his pursuit and realize his knight dream. Even if the result is that he saw the reality no longer living in a world of knight novels, the author also used this to express a paranoid knight romance, that is a return to nature, selfless and realistic attitude towards life. Don Quixote did not go far for the first time, and he began his career as a knight, was beaten in a valiant fight, and was brought back to the village by good fellow village farmer. Thus, Don Quixote hastily ended his first knight career. In the novel, “ ‘What giants? ‘said Sancho Panza.‘Those you see over there,’replied his master,‘with the long arms; sometimes, they are almost two leagues long.’ ‘Look, your grace,’ Sancho responded, ‘those things that appear over there aren’t giants but windmills, and what looks like their arms are the sails that are turned by the wind and make the grindstone move.’ ‘It seems clear to me,’ replied Don Quixote, ‘that thou art not well-versed in the matter of adventures: these are giants; and if thou art afraid, move aside and start to pray whilst I enter with them in fierce and unequal combat” (Cervantes 43). When it comes to knight's novels, Don Quixote becomes crazy and unreasonable, and when he does not discuss knight's novels, he is clear-headed, talkative and reasonable. The novel is advancing in the contradiction between madness and not madness. And every time encountered setbacks, Don Quixote adopted the method of spiritual victory from my comfort, he thinks ranger Knight to eat a little loss is not surprising. 

Don Quixote's era of peace without war, there is no need for knights to uphold justice, he wants to fulfill his illusory dream of knights, and forced intervention in idealized life, but was defeated by reality. Additionally, in the text, “ And if you wish to know who commands you to do this, so that you have an even greater obligation to comply, know that I am the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha, the righter of wrongs and injustices, and now go with God, and do not even think of deviating from what you have promised and sworn, under penalty of the penalty I have indicated to you”?Cervantes 22?said by Don Quixote. From this quote, it reveals that Don Quixote often imagines himself to be a medieval knight and he is adamant he should punish bad people and protect justice. However, the adventure didn't pay off no only did he look and look out of place, but he often did strange things and made many jokes. Don Quixote's serious pursuit of morality, is the spiritual aristocrat, at that time people in the secular slave thought is impossible to recognize him. When he finally woke up after a few false starts, he found everything was a fantasy, and went back to his hometown in despair and died. Don Quixote is nearly fifty years old, and he has lived a life of uneventful, unproductive life, but he sees the meaning of life through the romances of chivalry, and he thinks one must come into this world to do something.

Furthermore, the author also satirized the chivalry novels of Spain at that time through Don Quixote's travel and comprehensively criticizes the political, legal and moral aspects of feudal Spain in this period. A series of strange things happened on Don Quixote's second trip. With sympathy for Don Quixote, through a series of well-meaning deceit, and the madly discomfited knight Quixote was caged back. He thought he had stopped a lot this time, but a month later he secretly began his knight journey. In this story,“ As soon as he saw the inn it appeared to him to be a castle Complete with four towers and spires of gleaming silver, not to mention a drawbridge and deep moat and all the other details depicted on such castles. ” (Cervantes 10). From this quote, it reveals that Sancho follows Don Quixote because he looks at an island that Don Quixote won in a fight. Obviously, the island is pure nihilism, but because of it Sancho loyal to Don Quixote. 

In a ridiculous situation, Sancho is the most able to see through the facts, he constantly argued with the owner that it is not a castle but a guest shop. In Sancho's description, it shows the human face facing the reality or secular side. On the contrary, Don Quixote, as the human pursuit of the ideal side, the critical moment is to show courage, fearless. For example, on a dark and windy night, Sancho was frightened by the scenes around him and muttered that he shouldn't have been greedy for the false island to suffer the bad fortune, while the heroic Don Quixote was right and ready to die with the evil. The compare and contrast between the ideal and the real personality of the two masters and servants reflect that the times have changed, and Don Quixote's knightly ideal is destined to be only a nightmare in an age in which everyone lives rationally. Additionally, in the text, “with his lance in its socket, he charged at Rocinante's full gallop and attacked the first mill he came to; and as he thrust his lance into the sail, the wind moved it with so much force that it broke the lance into pieces and picked up the horse and the knight” (Cervantes 43). He fought all the way, but could not find the real enemy, finally can not only think of the distance of 30 but also 40 windmills as the sky-end of the giant, a swing of spears to the enemy, the result of the individual turned up, blue eyes. Also, as he did not care Sancho's dissuasion, the persistent thought that the road so dusty sheep is the enemy's army, two words rushed over a fight, and was finally helpless by the shepherd with stone laid a half teeth, before stopping.

Finally, the protagonist of the novel, Don Quixote, is an emotionally complex and contradictory character. On the one hand, he is praised for his heroic spirit of fighting against the strong and the weak, fighting for the righteous and brave, and daring to fight against the evil forces. However, in the text, “The people of the village and his friends, when they see Don Quixote doing something funny, they only play jokes on him and laugh at him, they never stop him or realistically tell him that they will be laughed at, they just accompany the so-called madman in his madness” (Duncan, 5). From Duncan's comments, Don Quixote in the process of traveling, there was not one to debunk the madman's trick, but cater to his acting together. Don Quixote as a fool play, add a squeeze for boring life joyful folk prescription, fill out people’s inner emptiness. 

The third travel, this time they go the furthest, but Don Quixote ends his knighthood. In this story,“during this time, he had lively conversations with his two friends the priest and the barber, in whom he said that what the world needed most were knights errant and that in him errant chivalry would be reborn”(Cervantes 40). When he returns home, perhaps with the unacceptability of defeat, perhaps with remorse for his comic knighthood, perhaps with a realisation of reality. Don Quixote comes to his senses, denounces the romances of chivalry, and walks away in his hatred of the romances of chivalry. After Don Quixote's transformation from a respectable squire into a knight, he either gets into trouble for himself or causes trouble for others in his attempt to promote chivalry, which is not in keeping with our image of a great and heroic knight, and the author also takes the opportunity to satirize the romances of chivalry that was prevalent in Spain at that time.

In summary, the most significant function of travel in the Quixote is to graciously assist Don Quixote in achieving his wishes and to reflect the social phenomenon of the time through obviously absurd descriptions. The reality of people's minds is at odds with Don Quixote's obsession with chivalry. Don Quixote's pursuit of justice is a farce to others, but it is serious to him. Therefore, Don Quixote's ideal intention seems an unattainable wonderland.

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