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Don Quixote

Don Quixote is the titular character of Miguel de Cervantes's The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. The book is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age, and the character of Don Quixote has been embodied in films, operas, ballets, and musicals.

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Why does don quixote name his horse rocinante?

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"He next proceeded to inspect his hack, which, with more quartos than a real

and more blemishes than the steed of Gonela, that "tantum pellis et ossa fuit,"

surpassed in his eyes the Bucephalus of Alexander or the Babieca of the Cid. Four

days were spent in thinking what name to give him, because (as he said to

himself) it was not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one

with such merits of his own, should be without some distinctive name, and he

strove to adapt it so as to indicate what he had been before belonging to a knighterrant,

and what he then was; for it was only reasonable that, his master taking a

new character, he should take a new name, and that it should be a distinguished

and full-sounding one, befitting the new order and calling he was about to follow.

And so, after having composed, struck out, rejected, added to, unmade, and

remade a multitude of names out of his memory and fancy, he decided upon

calling him Rocinante, a name, to his thinking, lofty, sonorous, and significant of

his condition as a hack before he became what he now was, the first and foremost

of all the hacks in the world"

How many years passed between the publication of part 1 and part 2 of don Quixote?

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Part 1 appeared in 1605 and Part 2 in 1615.

When was Don Quixote set?

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Spain, specifically La Manche, which is in central Spain. Or, at least I know that's where they start.

How you can Describe don Quixote's adventure with the windmill?

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This is an allegory and fighting the windmill is man's attacking imaginary enemies. This describes confrontations where adversaries are incorrectly perceived.

Is don quixote an idealist or a realist?

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believable characters

XD >A<

When was The Female Quixote created?

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The Female Quixote was created in 1752.

Whose helmet does Don Quixote take?

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The helmet that Don quixote took with him was not a real helmet but one that was a mordial and was not a closed helmet but used paste board and looked like a whole one but weak and broke when he tested it so he fixed bars of iron on the inside. The armor if you like to know was his great-grandfathers.

What natural human needs does Don Quixote ignore?

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Because Don Quixote claims he is sustained by only the thoughts and dreams of his one true love, Dulcinea of Toboso, he does not eat or sleep for much of the novel.

Is Don Quixote a mock epic or mock romance?

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Don Quixote is a mock romance, the character of Quixote is mock-heroic. The definition of a mock epic is very similar to that of mock romance, however, the mock epic is the larger idea, and the mock romance is the specific idea.

After being knocked down by the windmill how does don quixote explain the fact that he has not killed a giant?

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Don Quixote claims that a magician turnes the giants into windmills to thwart his heroic attack

Who does Don Quixote live with?

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Don Quixote lives with his niece and his caretaker.