Don Quixote
Don Quixote filled his imagination with everything that he had read, with enchantments, knightly encounters, battles, challenges, wounds, with tales of love and its torments, and all sorts of impossible things, and as a result had come to believe that all these factitious happenings were true; they were more real to him than anything else in the world. The windmills were in fact real giants to Don Quixote. While on his travels he encountered a windmill that he thought were giants. Since the giants were lawless he had to attack the thirty or more of them. "He thereupon commended himself with all his heart to his lady Dulcinea, beseeching her to succor him in this peril." After the battle he did not complain for the knights of the day did not complain about their bodily injuries. He could only imagine these giants in his story books he read, also when he commended himself that was what all the knights of the time did from what he had read. Since windmills were in fact windmills he blamed it on the evil magician Freston. The magician was surly evil although he did not do anything to the windmills. Don Quixote came upon some knightly encounters during his journeys. The first encounter was while he was watching his armor. Two mul
The books also told about tails of love and torment. After gathering his armor and figuring out the names he was still lacking one thing; he needed a ladylove all knight-errant had them. The all kinds of walks of life that the great Don Quixote defeats has to go to his ladylove and proclaim how Don Quixote is such a brave knight. This he had read in books of chivalry was called courtly love. Don Quixote got smitten with a good looking farm girl. She never suspected or knew it though. This was to be his ladylove that he called her by Dulcinea. Chivalry books required him to find a ladylove that he read so the ones defeated by him could tell how brake Don Quixote is. He came upon all sorts of impossible things along the way. The impossible has been done the giants had been turned into windmills according to his imagination from what he read. When he was knocked off his horse by the windmills his lance had been broken, so he exclaimed, " I remember having read of a Spanish knight by the name of Diego Perez de Vargas, who, having broken his sword in battle, tore from an oak a heavy bough or branch and with it did such feats of valor that day...." Don Quixote wanted to do the same. This shows that all the things he read fill his head with all sorts of things. When he arrived at the inn him and Rocinante waited for a dwarf to blow the trumpet in the announcement of their arrival. The Dwarf was slow coming, but when a swineherd came a person blew the horn to round up the drove. The horn was like music to his ears, of course the dwarf was all in the books he read about chivalry. The love and torment and the all sorts of impossible things were like the dwarf, his ladylove, windmills, and the bough of the tree was all things that he imagined to be reality. eteers came by to water their mules. In order to do this the mule driver had to remove the armor. He warned the muleteer, but with no vigilance to Don Quixote. He then exclaimed "succor O lady mine, this vassal heart in this my first encounter; let not your favor and protection fail me in the peril in which for the first time now find myself." He then proceeded to strike the muleteer in the head. He had to so to speak devote his first battle
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Approximate Word count = 1485
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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