Who is Don Quixote?

The famous novel Don Quixote (1602 ~ 16 15) is Cervantes' masterpiece. The full name of this novel is "The Palace of Gentlemen with Fantasy Ideas" * * 2 volumes, which mainly describes a thin and declining aristocrat, Ji Ke De. He is obsessed with ancient knight novels, dressed himself as an ancient knight in rags, regarded an ugly pig-herding woman as a goddess of worship, and then set out to travel around the country three times with a pudgy farmer, Sancho Panza. As a result, many jokes were made, humiliated everywhere, beaten or sent home as a madman. There are nearly 700 characters in the novel, and the scenes depicted are all over the country from the palace to the wilderness. It exposed the contradictions of the declining Spanish kingdom from the end of 16 to the beginning of 17, condemned the decadence of the aristocratic class, showed the people's pain and struggle, and touched on political, economic, moral, cultural and customs issues. The novel portrays two famous typical figures in world literature, namely, Sancho, a peasant who is laughing, respectable, sad and realistic, timid, intelligent and just. It combines realism and romanticism organically, which has both unpretentious real life and funny and exaggerated fictional plots, and has reached a new level in reflecting the depth and breadth of reality and shaping the typicality of characters.

This book is a classic, but it is best not to read it with such a serious eye, because it belongs to street reading for a long time after its publication, and its value was once considered as "funny" (Cervantes was a genius, but he was the funniest writer in Spain-a human language at that time). No matter what comments he received, this book was really funny, and I couldn't help writing this article after reading it. The words in this book are light and lively. It seems that every sentence is handy and appropriate, but it is not so accurate. Even the cohesion of the plot is so random and full of loopholes, but this does not affect the attraction of the whole book. This book has a vitality from the people. If you joke with a bunch of simple country people, you can feel this warm and natural vitality.

Cervantes, the author, is such a low-level role in society. He was a disabled sergeant and was captured as a slave. During this period, he led his brothers to escape several times and was caught back. After being redeemed, he was penniless, and writing didn't help him get rid of poverty. He also spent several times in prison in ...................................................................................................................................... because of an accident. After his death, people didn't know his exact burial place.

Don Quixote, a country gentleman, was fascinated by the knight's short story, and he was bent on putting all kinds of knight's behaviors in the book into reality. He lured his neighbor Sancho to be his slave, so a madman and a fool became this "great messenger".

Don Quixote is clear-headed and insightful when talking with people in adventure, as long as chivalry is not involved. He has a firm belief and noble character and is a model of chivalry. He pursues justice wholeheartedly, and "fights" with imaginary enemies without fear or even death. He firmly believes that he should help the weak, but in fact, he often gives others trouble. He defends purity and loyalty, sticks to his self-righteous love, and has no regrets, while his so-called "lover" is a pudgy village girl who doesn't know him at all. He lives in an imaginary world, experiencing setbacks without regret. He thought it was just a "magician's ghost", constantly cheering Sancho up-knights always have to go through all kinds of hardships to achieve great success.

What about Sancho? He is a farmer who only sees immediate interests and only cares about himself. Because Don Quixote promised him all kinds of benefits, he followed him to be a slave. He was satisfied with the enjoyment in his mouth, constantly debunking Don Quixote's whimsy and complaining about his poor days. "The eagle flying in the sky is not as good as the hen running on the ground." He used common sense to judge and deal with problems, and the governor actually did a good job. Of course, later he felt tired and didn't want to do it.

The Adventures of Master and Servant is slightly similar to the Tang Priest and Apprentices in The Journey to the West, except that the former is absurd with the real world as the background, while the latter is a struggle with the mythical world as the background. This reminds people of the problem of faith, which is far away, like a distant lamp. The present world, limited by experience, is perceptual, superficial and perhaps "normal". Sancho is an irrational fool who only knows pleasure. Master and servant seem contradictory, but in fact they are inseparable. Don Quixote's ideal is ridiculous, but who can laugh at him? If a person has some ideals and beliefs that excite him, is it more real and smarter than Don Quixote's dream of a ranger? If not, who wants to be Sancho and be satisfied with the present happiness?

Simply put, let's end with a joke at that time.

At that time, the king of Spain saw a student laughing while reading on the balcony of his palace. He decided that the student must be reading Don Quixote, otherwise he was crazy. Sure enough, the guy was watching Don Quixote.

The author, like Don Quixote, is a tragic figure.