don quijote and miguel de cervantes saavedra

He later attacks a group of monks, thinking that they have imprisoned a princess, and also does battle with a herd of sheep, among other adventures, almost all of which end with Don Quixote, Sancho, or both being beaten.

In their first adventure, Don Quixote mistakes a field of windmills for giants and attempts to fight them but finally concludes that a magician must have turned the giants into windmills. When he recovers, he persuades the peasant Sancho Panza to act as his squire with the promise that Sancho will one day get an island to rule.ĭon Quixote and Sancho, mounted on a donkey, set out. On his way, he picks a fight with a group of merchants, and they beat him. After being told that he must carry money and extra clothes, Don Quixote decides to go home. He arrives at an inn, which he believes is a castle, and insists that the innkeeper knight him. Thus accoutred, he heads out to perform deeds of heroism in her name.

According to Don Quixote, a knight-errant also needs a lady to love, and he selects a peasant girl from a nearby town, christening her Dulcinea del Toboso. He then declares that his old nag is the noble steed Rocinante. He finds an antique suit of armour and attaches a visor made of pasteboard to an old helmet. The work opens in a village of La Mancha, Spain, where a country gentleman’s infatuation with books of chivalry leads him to decide to become a knight-errant, and he assumes the name Don Quixote.

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