Don Quixote, continued

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Don Quixote, continued

• CNE/ENG 120
• 11/29/04

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Part 1, Ch. 18

• DQs new adventure he interprets the dust of two
  sheep flocks as two opposing armies.
• Every minute of every hour his imagination was
  filled with those battles, enchantments,
  adventures, extravagances, loves and challenges
  that books of chivalry recount, and everything he
  said, thought, or did was channelled into such
  affairs. (501)
• In great excitement, shows SP the leaders and
  prominent warriors like Helen on the walls of
  Troy, identifying Greek warriors to Priam in the
  Iliad.

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Sancho Panzas Efforts

• SP tries, but finally admits that he cant see
  the armies/knights, and hears only sheep
  bleating.
• DQs response It is your fear, Sancho, that is
  preventing you from seeing or hearing properly.
  He charges the flocks.
• SP tries to call him back, but DQ kills many
  sheep before the shepherds and farmers stone
  him, knocking out his teeth and crushing his
  fingers.
• DQs explanation for what happened? Enchanters.

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Part 1, Chapter 20

• p. 506-507 DQ explains to SP why he was born and
  what his mission is.
• Adventure of the fulling mill
• SP shows that he has learned to trick DQ - ties
  Rocinantes hind legs together to keep him from
  leaving, tells him that the heavens have answered
  his prayers, to keep DQ from leaving that night.
• Later, when they find the thunderous noise was
  just the mill, SP laughs and repeats DQs speech
  of the night before. DQ beats him.

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Part 1, Chapter 22

• The adventure with the galley slaves.
• When they encounter a line of men having been
  sentenced to serve the king in his galleys for
  their crimes, DQ sees another opportunity for
  helping those in need.
• SP warns him that he interferes with justice.
• Like Dante and various sinners, DQ addresses each
  man individually, learning their crimes.
• DQ attacks the guards, the prisoners break free.
• When DQ orders them to pay homage to Dulcinea,
  stoning him they steal his clothes.

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The End Result

• Sancho fears the arrival of the Holy Brotherhood.
• DQ sulks at being left in such a sorry state by
  men for whom he had done so much.

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Part 1, Chapter 25

• In the Sierra Morena, a desolate area, DQ
  imitates the penance of Beltenebros (something
  hed read about in a chivalric romance).
• Rends his clothes, scatters his armor, dashes his
  head against rocks.
• SP is to tell Dulcinea about DQs penance.
• Since SP knows the real Dulcinea, they discuss
  her. DQ tells him that pastoral beloveds are just
  made up by poets. DQ writes a love letter to
  Dulcinea.

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Book 1, Chapter 52

• When penitents appear, DQ imagines a lady in
  distress (the image of Mary they carry).
• SP warns DQ of the reality of the situation.
• DQ attacks the penitents, who fight back.
• DQ lies as one dead, SP mourns him ridiculously.
• Curates make peace, DQ is revived.
• DQ returns home his family curses chivalric
  romances. Cervantes tries to kill further stories
  re DQ here.
• SP tells his wife the allure of DQs vision (p.
  530).

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Book 2, Chapter 3

• While DQ is still at home, we meet a new
  character, the BA Sanson Carrasco, who attempts
  to cure DQ.
• As the chapter opens, he tells SP of a book
  relating to the adventures of DQ and his squire,
  by which the two have been made famous.
• So, DQ has achieved his dream, that his high
  deeds of chivalry be published, like the
  chivalric romances hed read. He imagines some
  wise man has been printing them using magic.

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Reader Response

• DQ asks Sanson which of his deeds had been most
  highly praised -
• p. 533-534
• Sanson also remarks that some say they would
  have been glad if the authors had forgotten a few
  of the innumerable beatings which DQ received in
  the course of his various encounters.
• DQ says that these could have been left out
  altogether - authors should leave out things that
  lessen the readers respect for the hero

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New Wisdom

• I am sure that Aeneas was not as pious as Vergil
  depicts him, nor was Ulysses as prudent as Homer
  says. (534)
• This is a change from Book 1, in which he didnt
  eat much because knights didnt in the chivalric
  romances hed read.

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More Reader Response

• Sanson informs SP that some readers felt that he
  was too gullible in believing that he could
  become governor of an island won by DQ.
• Sanson tells the success of the book among young
  and old, all social classes. The book is so
  well-known it has become part of daily life
  (entered the culture) if someone sees a skinny
  old nag, he or she calls out, there goes
  Rocinante! (535).
• Cervantes incorporates his readers and critics
  reviews of book 1, in book 2. Author responds.

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Book 2, Chapter 4

• SP answers Sansons questions.
• DQ asks if the author intends a second part -
• Sanson replies
• yes, he does, but he says he hasnt found it and
  doesnt know whos got it, so we cant tell
  whether itll come out or not - and both because
  of this and because some people are saying,
  Second parts are never any good, and others are
  saying, Whats already been written about Don
  Quixote is quite enough although other people
  say Lets have more quixotry . . . (538)

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The Authors Position

• He says that as soon as he does find the
  history, for which hes searching with utmost
  diligence, hes going to have it printed
  immediately, more for the profit he can make out
  of it than to win anybodys praise. (538)

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Book 2, Chapter 10

• p. 539 the narrator undercuts his narrative.
• DQ sends SP off to speak on his behalf to
  Dulcinea - during which he must observe her body
  language carefully for clues to her emotions.
• Again, SP manipulates DQ - pretends he sees 3
  princesses instead of 3 peasant girls (he plays
  DQs part). DQ sees only peasant girls, sadly
  thinks that the enchanter prevents him from
  seeing his love.

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Book 2, Chapters 25-26

• Adventure with the puppeteer.
• Master Pedros puppet show features a tale of
  knights and ladies. A nobleman rescues his wife
  from the Moors (a tale type weve seen in the
  Iliad and Ramayana).
• DQ gets carried away, attacks the Moor puppets,
  destroying them.

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Book 2, Chapter 59

• DQ hears that others are reading Part 2, in which
  he no longer loves Dulcinea. Hes enraged.
• DQ and SP have dinner with some fans.

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Book 2, Chapter 72

• DQ and SP deny that they performed the deeds
  attributed to them in Saragossa - say that others
  take their names and impersonate them.
• Cervantes here responds to the book published by
  another author continuing DQs adventures.

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Book 2, Chapter 73

• Homecoming of DQ.
• DQ gloomy after losing his battle with the
  disguised Sanson - SP seeks to cheer him up and
  prevent him from seeing bad omens everywhere.
• Deprived of his profession as knight-errant, DQ
  confesses his plan to become a pastoral shepherd
  (transfers his life to a different genre). He
  invites his friends to join him, they agree. He
  gives them shepherd names.
• The women try to talk DQ out of pastoralism. He
  doesnt feel well goes to bed.

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Book 2, Chapter 74

• The sickness and death of DQ.
• DQ catches a fever, takes to his bed. Visited by
  friends, SP stays by his side.
• The doctor says that depression and melancholy
  are causing his illness - the loss of Folly.
• DQ awakens cured of his madness. He seeks
  confession and to make a will.

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The End

• All grieve, because sane or mad he is a good man,
  loved by all who knew him.
• DQ apologizes to SP, who begs him not to die but
  to become a shepherd with him.
• DQ wants his friends to apologize to the author
  of Part 2 for giving him the occasion of putting
  down such absurdities in writing.
• Author has DQs death witnessed so that no one
  could claim to write a 3rd book about DQ.

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Don Quixote in Other Media
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George Balanchines Don Quixote Ballet