Don Quixote summed up the main plot.

A emaciated and declining aristocrat, Don Quixote, is obsessed with ancient knight novels, but imitates the manners of ancient knights, taking his neighbor Sancho Panza as a servant and wandering around in armor, hoping to create achievements in helping the weak and weeding out the strong.

Don Quixote made all kinds of strange behaviors contrary to the times, and as a result, he ran into a wall and made jokes everywhere. Finally, he was defeated by a friend who pretended to be a hundred knights, gave up his career as a ranger, and fell ill soon after returning home. Before he died, he realized his mistake in superstitious knight novels and finally woke up from his dream.

Don Quixote is a masterpiece of realism in the Renaissance, written by Cervantes. It mainly describes and satirizes the knight novels that were very popular in Spanish society at that time, revealing the tyranny of the church, the darkness of society and the hardships of the people.

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The image of Don Quixote is complex and contradictory. He is an absurd dreamer. His distinctive feature is that he is divorced from reality and addicted to fantasy. His mind is full of strange things described in knight novels, and there are magic, giants and monsters everywhere. Later he became a defender of truth and justice. Sometimes he is ridiculous and pathetic, and sometimes he is great and noble.

Don Quixote's character is a double combination of noble character and funny character. In the non-knight era, Don Quixote appeared as a knight, which doomed the funny factor in his character. Although Don Quixote wanted to uphold justice and protect the oppressed, what he did was unjust, which made the people he saved suffer greatly.

Influenced by knight novels, he divorced from reality and was immersed in fantasy. At this time, he is an absurd dreamer and a moral madman. When not involving knight literature, he is a warrior with profound knowledge, excellent eloquence and clear thinking, but he also has rich noble personality factors.

He has a great belief, a great spirit of transcending ordinary people's wishes and contributing to others, which embodies lofty moral principles, a sense of justice and a fearless spirit. He is an enthusiastic disseminator of humanism. Pursuing freedom and equality, anti-feudalism, persistent action, and getting rid of violence and peace as the first duty. He loves freedom and justice and dares to fight for justice selflessly.

Another feature of his character is his blindness in behavior. He is unrealistic and slashes people with one hand. No matter what kind of enemy he meets, he never gives up and never learns from his failure. Subjectively, he pursues and maintains the truth, but he pursues "chivalry" that is divorced from reality and has long been out of date, so he is doomed to hit a wall and harm others and himself.

He is ridiculous, pathetic, amiable and respectable. In him, comedy and tragedy are wonderfully combined and become a unique artistic image in the history of literature.

The great generalization of Don Quixote's image makes him one of the immortal models in world literature. Sancho Panza in the novel is a role that Cervantes deliberately arranged to be opposite to Don Quixote, but complementary to each other. When describing their rangers' career, the author widely used the methods of comparison and exaggeration, and repeatedly emphasized some of their characteristics from appearance to personality, forming a sharp contrast.

Sancho's apparent stupidity and Don Quixote's madness have achieved unique artistic effects. Sancho is a fat and short ordinary Spanish farmer. Because of his poor family, he became a ranger's entourage under Don Quixote's persuasion, hoping to become an island governor through the ranger's adventure career, and his hunchbacked wife can also sit in a glittering carriage, and his daughter without dowry may become a countess.

In his character, there are narrow and selfish peasants, short-sighted, timid, thinking for themselves everywhere, pragmatic, calm and sober. He always reminds Don Quixote to return to reality from fantasy. In his eyes, windmills are either huge or windmills. Sheep are either troops or sheep.

Before Don Quixote took every adventure, Sancho always dissuaded him, but every time he dissuaded him, it didn't work. In the end, he always proved that Sancho's dissuasion was correct, which was in sharp contrast with Don Quixote's fanaticism. At the beginning of the novel, while cursing the crazy fantasy of the knight errant, he hopes to get a chance to make a fortune and change the dilemma at home.

With the development of the plot, Sancho learned more about Don Quixote and began to value him "kindness, love Don Quixote, love him more than his own eyes." Although he suffered a lot and didn't get half the money, he never abandoned his master. His loyalty and friendship to Don Quixote were touching.

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