Crazy Quixote

Crazy Quixote!

Lack of responsibility and insanity are two initial qualities that strike any reader of Cervantes’ Don Quixote. While some people claim he is in a mid-life crisis, others claim he is a dreamer. Quixote takes to life a world of his own throughout the entirety of the novel. Although Quixote proves through his literacy to have read and absorbed the books of chivalry, he does not fulfill the role of a realistic knight-errant due to his impractical sense of the world and people around him.
Obviously, Don Quixote sees the world through a stretch of pages that he experienced from his past readings on chivalry. However, his surroundings, people, and societal-like events do not link back to his knowledge of chivalry. Quixote begins his adventure by constructing a “visor out of pasteboard, and when it was fitted to the morion, it looked like an entire helmet” (Don Quixote 59). Generally speaking, Quixote is...