About the content of Don Quixote

In La Man, Spain, there lived a poor gentleman in his 50s, Quijano. When he had nothing to do, he immersed himself in reading novels about knights. His mind was filled with absurd ideas about knight-errant adventures. He lost his rationality and had wild imagination, so he decided to become a knight errant to perform chivalry, help the poor and become famous all over the world. He wore a set of rusty and moldy armor passed down from his great-grandfather as a sturdy helmet on his head. He spent four days giving his skinny horse a noble and resounding name - Rare to Drive, indicating that although it was a horse in the past, it is now a rare and rare thing in the world to be a knight's mount. He also named himself Don Quixote de La Mancho, which means that he is the famous Don Quixote knight in La Mancho. He also believed that a knight errant must never be without a lover, so he regarded the pig woman he secretly admired as his lover, and gave her a princess-like name: Dulcinea del Tor Poso. When everything was ready, he mounted the rhinoceros, put on his helmet, slung his shield, picked up his spear and left the house. When Don Quixote reached the outskirts, he suddenly remembered that he had not been knighted. This matter was very important. When he came to an inn at night, he imagined the inn as a castle, and the rogue and liar shopkeeper as the owner of the castle. He called the innkeeper to the stable, knelt down, and begged the innkeeper to knight him. The shop owner thought he was a lunatic and was afraid that he would cause trouble if he acted recklessly, so he held a conferment ceremony in the stable. The innkeeper used the account book in which the muleteers' fodder was recorded as a "Bible", muttered something, then slapped Don Quixote hard on the neck, and slapped him hard on the shoulder with Don Quixote's sword, and finally Have two prostitutes hang swords for Don Quixote. After the ceremony, Don Quixote was impatient and went out on horseback to hunt for adventure. Don Quixote's first adventure was to rescue a sheepherding child who was tied to a tree by a landlord and beaten severely. He ordered the landlord to untie the child and pay the child full wages. The landlord was frightened and obeyed. After Don Quixote left, the landowner tied the child to the oak tree again and beat him so hard that he was beaten to death. Don Quixote came to a crossroads and met a group of businessmen. He wanted others to admit that his beloved was a unique beauty in the world. The businessman's mule driver did not buy it. Don Quixote thought this was blasphemy against his peerless beauty. So he angrily challenged the merchant. The mule driver snatched his spear and beat him until he was covered with bruises and could not move. A fellow on the street was transporting wheat to the mill and passed by and sent him back home. Although Don Quixote is recovering from his injuries at home, he firmly believes that the most urgent need in the world is knights errant, and the revival of knights errant's morality depends entirely on him. Not only did he continue to take risks, but he also lobbied the poor farmer Sancho to be his attendant. He made a wish to Sancho: After he conquered an island, he would make Sancho the governor of the island. Sancho finally left his wife and children to serve as Don Quixote's attendant. One night, Don Quixote and his attendants secretly left home for the second time. They came to the countryside and saw thirty or forty windmills in the distance. Don Quixote said to his attendants: "More than 30 incredibly large giants appeared over there. I plan to fight them and kill them one by one. We will get the victory and make a fortune. This is a just war, to destroy This bad thing on earth is doing great service to God.” The attendant repeatedly explained that it was a windmill, not a giant. Not only did Don Quixote not listen, but he blamed the attendant for being timid and not taking risks. Then he held his spear and galloped towards the first windmill. He shot the windmill in the wing. The wings rotated fiercely in the wind, and the spear burst out into several sections. The force swept Don Quixote and his horse straight away. Don Quixote rolled to the ground in a miserable state. Afterwards, Don Quixote still did not believe that he stabbed a windmill. He insisted that the magician was against him and turned the giant into a windmill to deprive him of the glory of victory. One night, the master and servant came to an inn. The owner arranged for them to live with a mule driver on the top floor. A maid in the inn made an appointment with the mule driver for a tryst that night. The maid felt in the wrong place in the darkness and reached Don Quixote's bedside. Don Quixote thought she was a beautiful goddess, so he grabbed the maid, held her tightly in his arms, and talked to her in eloquent words of love. When the mule driver, who was full of evil thoughts and could not sleep, heard this, he became jealous and started fighting. The shopkeeper came over after hearing the noise and saw everyone fighting fiercely in the dark and twisting into a ball, unable to persuade them. Later, when the patrol leader of the Holy Friendship Group heard the news and came to intervene, everyone gave up and ran away. The unfortunate Don Quixote was beaten until he could not move.

The master and servant left the inn and moved on. One day, as they were walking and talking, they suddenly saw smoke billowing from in front of them. Don Quixote immediately told Sancho excitedly that these were two armies composed of countless peoples who came to fight in the wilderness, and he was ready to show his skills to assist the righteous side and attack the evil side. , do something that will leave a name in history and be immortal. Sancho looked carefully and saw that there was no army at all, only the dust raised by two groups of sheep. He also heard the cry of rams and ewes. Don Quixote insisted that it was an army of millions, not a flock of sheep, and he even heard the neighing of horses, the sound of horns, and the sound of drums. He was so dizzy that he couldn't listen to Sancho's advice at this time. He rushed into the sheep and stabbed randomly with his spear, as if he was really assassinating his enemy in the previous life. The shepherd yelled at him and couldn't stop, so he took off his slingshot and hit him with fist-sized rocks, breaking his scalp and knocking out several of his teeth. When the shepherd saw that he was in trouble, he gathered his flock, put seven or eight dead sheep on his shoulders, and ran away in a hurry. Although Don Quixote suffered a loss, he comforted Sancho and said: "The violent storms we passed are signs that the weather will soon clear up, indicating that the situation will get better." Not long after this conversation, Don Quixote Hode saw eleven or twelve prisoners who had been escorted to the sea for hard labor coming up the road ahead. Don Quixote said that people are born free and should not be forced to do hard work, and it is the responsibility of a knight-errant to hoe the strong and save the poor. So, he knocked down the escorting soldiers, liberated the prisoners, and ordered them to visit Dulcinea and report Don Quixote's achievements. Unexpectedly, the prisoners repaid their kindness with revenge. They knocked him to the ground with stones, snatched away all the clothes from him and Sancho, and fled in all directions. Don Quixote was so angry that he received such retribution for his good deeds. Don Quixote let the prisoner go, but fearing that the officers and soldiers would pursue him, he quickly fled into Montenegro to practice. He asked Sancho to send a love letter to Dulcinea. On the way, Sancho meets the priest and barber who come to see Don Quixote go home. They devised a clever plan to trick Don Quixote out of Montenegro, put him in a bag, put him on an ox cart and escorted him home. His family would never let him go out again. After Don Quixote learned at home that there was going to be a competition in Saragossa, he took Sancho and left the house for the third time, regardless of the opposition of his family. At the invitation of Don Quixote's family, the college student Garrasgo wanted to trick Don Quixote back home. He disguised himself as a "mirror" knight, caught up with the master and servant, and challenged Don Quixote. Don Quixote struck first, and the "mirror" knight was caught off guard and fell from his horse. Don Quixote won the battle and was beaming with joy. Then, Don Quixote and Sancho met a cart containing two ferocious African lions, which were a gift from the Governor of Oran to the emperor. Don Quixote forced the two transporters to open the cage and release the two animals. He wanted to compete with the lions. The man in charge of the lion couldn't resist him, so he was forced to open the cage and let out the terrifyingly big and ferocious lion. The male lion turned around, stretched out a paw, stretched, opened his mouth and yawned, stretched out his long tongue to lick the dust on his eye circles, and then stuck his head out of the cage, opening a pair of charcoal-like eyes. He looked around, paying no attention to Don Quixote's nonsense, as if he was not worthy of competing with him. Then he turned around, turned his butt towards Don Quixote, and lay down lazily and slowly in the cage. Don Quixote wanted to compete with the lion, so he asked the lion's guardian to hit him with a few sticks to make him angry and run away. The person in charge of the lion said: The lion's failure to appear is its failure, and the crown of victory should belong to you, so Don Quixote gave up. Although Don Quixote has the merit of defeating the "Mirror" knight and the glory of defeating the lion, he has not yet conquered the island, so he will continue to attack. One evening, the master and servant met a duke and his wife who were out hunting. The Duke and Duchess had heard about Don Quixote's deeds, and they were looking for something new to entertain them, so they welcomed Don Quixote and Sancho into their home and thought of all kinds of tricks to make them happy. The Duke sent Sancho to a small town under his control as the governor of the "island". He arranged several mysterious cases to tease Sancho, but Sancho had no selfish thoughts, judged things wisely, enforced the law impartially, and solved them one by one. Everyone felt that the new governor was very knowledgeable and admired him very much. Sancho had outstanding political achievements on the "island" and formulated many laws that were beneficial to the people. One day, the Duke sent his men to pretend to be enemies and attack the "island". In the chaos, Sancho was knocked to the ground. A guy used Sancho's body as a lookout and stood on top to give commands. As a result, he was beaten sore all over. Sancho felt that being a governor was not as good as going home and farming, so he resigned as governor and went back to find Don Quixote.

Don Quixote was teased in the Duke's Palace and did not want to live any longer. The master and servant left the Duke's Palace, like fish entering the sea, and could not help but praise the value of freedom. Don Quixote's master and servant left the Duke's Palace and arrived in Barcelona. Early one morning, Don Quixote, fully clothed in armor, went out to wander on the beach. Suddenly, a knight in full armor came towards him. He called himself the "Knight of the White Moon" and wanted to duel with Don Quixote. The condition is that if Don Quixote loses, he will put down his weapons, stop exploring adventures, and stay in his hometown for a year. If he wins, he can dispose of his life, weapons, horses, etc. At the beginning of the duel, the knight "White Moon" spurred his horse and knocked Don Quixote to the ground together with his horse. Don Quixote had no choice but to return home. It turns out that the "White Moon" knight is the college student Garrasgo. Don Quixote returned home and became ill. Before he died, he came to his senses and finally realized that those legends of chivalry were all nonsense. He was not Don Quixote, the knight errant, but Alonso Quixote, a kind-hearted man known as the "Good Man". According to the notary, in chivalric novels, there has never been a knight-errant who died in bed as peacefully, piously, and as quietly as Don Quixote. Cervantes (1547-1616), the author of "Don Quixote", was a great modern Spanish novelist, dramatist, and poet. He was born into a declining noble family. His life was full of adventure and suffering. He was wounded in the Battle of Lepanto and became the "One-Armed Man of Lepanto". His literary creation reached the peak of the "Golden Century" of Spanish literature. "Don Quixote" is Cervantes' masterpiece. The author's purpose in writing this novel is to "sweep away the clichés of chivalric novels." But the social significance of the work goes far beyond the ridicule and criticism of chivalric novels. Nearly 700 characters appear in the novel, and the picture of life described is very broad. It comprehensively and truly reflects the reality of Spanish feudal society from the late 16th century to the early 17th century, reveals various contradictions in the declining Spanish Kingdom, and condemns the aristocracy. The class's dissolute and shameless expression of deep sympathy for the sufferings of the people. As soon as the novel was published in 1605, it caused a sensation all over Spain. It was circulated in the court and market, and it was reprinted six times in one year. In 1606, someone actually wrote a sequel to "Don Quixote" under a pseudonym, which not only distorted the original work, but also personally attacked the author. Cervantes was extremely indignant and immediately stepped up his creation. The second volume of "Don Quixote" was published in 1615 and was warmly welcomed by readers. "Don Quixote" is a big step forward compared to previous European novels in terms of the depth and breadth of reality it reflects and the typical characters it creates. It has a profound impact on the literature of various European countries and has become a treasure in the world's literary treasure house.