Use of Quixotic in the Literature of Don Quixote Occasionally, truly iconic figures from literature can give their names to words in our language that have meaning rooted in the text, but still exist outside it. We can use an example from a selection we read in the last unit: The Odyssey. The word Odyssey … Read more
Relating the Classic Narrative of the Windmills to Modern Social and Political issues For this Apply, consider the scene in Don Quixote where the title character shows “bravery” by fighting “giants” even though they are, in reality, windmills. Think about a modern political or social issue that seems to be treated as a “giant” … Read more
Don Quixote In addition to what our text says about Cervantes, it is important to note that he is perhaps the greatest writer in Spanish and Spanish-language literature until the great South American “Boom” writers of the 20th Century such as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez took their places in that stratosphere. Don … Read more