Alonso Quixano, a retired country gentleman in his fifties, lives in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has become obsessed with books of chivalry, and believes their every word to be true, despite the fact that many of the events in them are clearly impossible. Quixano eventually appears to other people to have lost his mind from little sleep and food and because of so much reading.
He is the 'hero' of a novel and its sequel by Miguel de Cervantes. After becoming illusioned by fairy tales of chivalry, he sets out on an adventure which includes him doing many rather foolish things: * charging windmills (in his belief that they were giants), * attacking a group of muleteers (because they wanted to use a watering trough for that purpose, not as a table), * being knighted by the lord of a castle (actually an innkeeper in his inn), * and battling with traders for insulting his (imaginary) friend. Further information can be found at the related links.
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Don Quixote explains that the enchanter Friston turned the giants into windmills to rob him of his glory in battle. He believes that Friston did this to take away the recognition for his heroic act of defeating the giants, ultimately maintaining his delusion that he was fighting giants.
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Don Quixote's aims in his madness were to emulate the heroes of his books of chivalry, (which were of course the cause of said madness) for example Orlando or Amadis de Gaula. To do this he rode out on his horse Rocinante to search for adventure and win renown, which he does in the name of his 'lady' Dulcinea of Toboso (who is in fact nothing more than a peasant girl names aldonza lorenzo).