Characters in Don Quixote and Their Related Plots

Don Quixote is an immortal typical figure. According to the book, this thin, sad-looking little aristocrat was fascinated by chivalry literature, and even rode on a thin old horse, Luigi Nanti, found a rusty spear, put on a helmet with holes, and wanted to be a ranger, hoe the strong and help the weak and defend the people. He hired Sancho Panza, a nearby farmer, as his entourage and rode behind him on a donkey. Don Quixote imagined a milkmaid in a neighboring village as his female protector and named her Toposo da Cynthia. So he went out looking for adventure as a knight without a formal title. He completely lost his sense of reality, fell into a rambling fantasy, and treated everything with idealism. So he made a lot of troubles, suffered a lot, and made a lot of jokes, but he was still stubborn. He regarded the country inn as a castle and the boss as a castellan, forcing the boss to make him a knight. The shopkeeper was so happy that he played a joke on him. He took the book of horse account as the Bible, hit him twice on the shoulder with the back of Don Quixote's knife, and then asked a shoemaker's daughter to help him hang the knife. The sealed knight Don Quixote walked out of the inn and took the spinning windmill as a giant. He rushed up to fight it, and he was black and blue all over. He took the sheep as an army and rushed to fight. The shepherd boy hit him in the face with a stone and broke his teeth. Sancho Panza corrected him again and again, but he never believed him. He also treated a barber as a soldier, gave him a head-on blow, and regarded the copper basin from victory as the famous Mann-Bourinot helmet. He treated a group of criminals as persecuted gentlemen, killed them and saved them. He asked them to go to the village to thank their sponsors, but they beat them badly. His friends tried many ways to get him home. In the second volume, he continued to take risks and suffered a lot, which made him sick. One of his friends, Samson carrasco, pretended to be a samurai and knocked him down, so he was punished to stop being a ranger for one year. Don Quixote did not repent until he died.

Don Quixote's character is dual. On the one hand, he is insane and ridiculous, but it is he who represents lofty moral standards, fearless spirit, heroic behavior, firm belief in justice and loyalty to love, and so on. The crazier he is, the greater the disaster he causes. Almost everyone who meets him will encounter disaster, but his excellent moral character is more distinct. Sancho Panza originally followed Don Quixote as the "governor", but it was for this reason that he was reluctant to leave. Don Quixote is ridiculous, but he is always the embodiment of idealism. He has infinite sympathy for the oppressed and the weak. From many chapters, we can find that he praised freedom and opposed oppression and slavery in warm language. It is also through this typical example that Cervantes declared the end of religionism with sadness. This just reflects the social mentality of the Renaissance when the old beliefs collapsed and the new beliefs (bourgeoisie) failed.

Sancho Panza, Don Quixote's attendant, is also a typical image. He was created to set off the image of Don Quixote. His image sets off the theme of the decline of faith from the opposite side. Don Quixote is full of fantasy, while Sancho Panza starts from reality. Don Quixote is an ascetic monk, and Sancho Panza is a hedonist. Don Quixote is rich in knowledge, while Sancho Panza is illiterate; Don Quixote is thin and tall, and Sancho Pansha is fat and short. He, Sancho Panza, is a farmer with the shortcomings of small business owners. But when he is really put in the position of managing an island (actually a village), he can handle affairs impartially, without favoritism or corruption. Later, because I couldn't stand the teasing of the nobles, I left my job. He said, "I came naked and went naked. I didn't suffer, and I didn't take advantage. This is where I am different from other governors. " Commenting on Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Mr. Zhu Guangqian said: "One is Don Quixote who is full of illusory ideals and fights with a windmill with a spear to show chivalry, and the other is Sancho Panza who wants to enjoy life from wine, food and high officials. One of them is a ridiculous idealist and the other is a ridiculous pragmatist. But Don Quixote belongs to the past, and Sancho Panza belongs to the future. With the rising influence of the bourgeoisie, the ideal person is not Don Quixote, but Sancho Panza. "