Don Juan The Trickster Of Seville

o Pages 35-36 Santiago refers to the Portuguese man-of-war as a “whore” because they “were beautiful…but were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them.”

In Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra’s classic novel, The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote is a wonderful tale about a man who abandons his normal life to pursue life as a knight. The characters in the novel such as Dulcinea, his love, Marcela, Maritornes and Sancho Panza his squire happens to play a great and important role in the novel when exampling the theme of love. The themes of love, care, infatuation and loyalty are greatly expressed throughout the novel. Throughout the novel, Cervantes is able to examine how one can differentiate true love from false and infatuated love.

De Las Casas did not like how the natives were treated. Although, he released his slaves. De Las Casas gave up his dream of becoming rich. He felt so strongly about the bad treatment of the natives that he just could not be apart of it. In addition, he became a spokesperson for the natives. De Las Casas risked being shunned by his peers. He did this because witnessing this infernal treatment first hand was too much to have on his conscience. Furthermore, De Las Casas became a priest. He felt that he needed forgiveness for the tragedies that he was involved with. De Las Casas wanted to be able to stop the horrific tragedies that the Christians were doing and his way of doing so was with help from the almighty. De Las Casas wasn’t just a good person he

He is desperate to rectify that and grab something for himself, and I like him for that. He has a reason for being evil.’ Due to his positions as a bastard, characters immediately reject Don John and regard him with suspicion. With his villainy stemming from his rejection from society, it becomes clear why he is treated as an outcast. He is degraded to just Don Pedro’s illegitimate half brother, sometimes referred to simply as “the Bastard.” He is a clear stand out from the rest of the characters due to his melancholy and pessimism, since as characters in a comedy are supposed to be surrounded by a joyful atmosphere, he is the only character that brings darkness and sadness to the play. Most of the other characters in the play prove outgoing, talkative, or at least social, and while such chattiness leads to problems when other characters overhear secrets, Don John’s silence emerges as more disagreeable than willingness to divulge secrets. When Don John returns to Messina with his brother, the governor Leonato addresses him with immense hesitation: “If you swear, my Lord, you shall not be forsworn” Essentially, Leonato questions Don John’s declaration of loyalty to Don Pedro, and although Leonato covers his harsh greeting with a welcoming of Don John, his doubts remain dormant under the surface of his kind words. Don John notices the undercurrent of distrust directed towards him and responds, “I am not of many words, but I thank you” Through his simple statement, Don John acknowledges society’s perpetual distrust of him and provides the audience with key insight into his character. In a powerful statement, Don John confirms “I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking.”Don John recognizes that no one truly trusts him;

The Spanish Roulette is a fictional account of events in the life of a young Puerto Rican named Sixto who swears to avenge for his sister’s assault. According to the story, Sixto’s sister had been raped by a local gang member who Sixto assures must suffer the same pain as his sister before he can finally kill him. Evidenced by the story, Sixto fights the thought of killing his sister’s tormentor while loading his revolver, but finally, snaps and decides to go ahead with his plan thereby leaving any logic and moral reasoning not to kill the gang member. The author, Ed Vega’s epic account of the life of Sixto closely resembles his first-person account of the life in Puerto Rico where the street is controlled by gang members who could rob from innocent families, handle drugs and unauthorized weapons including guns, and go about their business without being interfered by people in the community or the police (Lee). This essay asserts that based on the author’s argument and character representation, revenge is the only hope for the weak in the face of trouble when even the society cannot intervene and this argues that Ed Vega proved as creative and a competent writer by using the various features of poetic writing to create the intended image, environment, characters, and build on the theme of revenge.

2. The Devil intervenes within the scenes of light and purity by shouting his threats. By using such extreme differences in vocal technique, the essential message of the morality play is shown here.

Over the course of this semester, students of World Masterpieces by Amanda Drake have learned about “othering” and anti-heroism. Many of the central characters in the stories and plays that were assigned, exemplified anti heroism and othering. Anti-Heroes, by definition, are typically main characters of a story, play or movie, which lack classic “heroic” traits. Due to these characters lacking heroic traits, they are othered by society and peers, making these characters outcasts.

The character of Demetrio Macias proves to be quite ironic. One facet of his character reveals his determination to find Pancho Villa’s army,

Throughout the text, Tormes openly criticizes the church. He discusses the faults within the Spanish nobles when it comes to the notion of honour they are expected to have. Tormes expresses his subversion towards Spain and the Church in the subtlest of ways. He is a man who pushed himself to become better than what he was thought to be in order to destroy the way of thinking of those higher than him. He pushes boundaries like no other. Further on, this text also includes recurring folk and mythical elements – this is another stereotypical type of subversive literature. The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes shows how, even though being in a time where he was seen as inferior due to his social status as well as being a time of oppression that was controlled by a religious hierarchy, it doesn’t conform. It shows how Tormes was not accepting of the “exempla” genre that held popularity and approval. This shows a way were Tormes is literally subversive towards the society he was placed in. Through the text, we experience, on multiple occasions, the thoughts and feeling Tormes holds on the society and land he lives in. Tormes utilizes euphemism in order to throw in subtle comments and hints on how he resents the noble system and the church control over Spain. This subtleness allows Tormes to convey his disdain emotions towards the system in way that wouldn’t be view as excessively unorthodox.

This can be seen in the quote ‘Give not this rotten orange to your friend’ (4.1.29). The "rotten orange" is Hero. Claudio is talking about her as if she is beautiful on the outside but decayed on the inside. Claudio's words are unusual, but the audience can immediately relate to them. This metaphor could also give the idea of miscommunication because he first states that Hero is beautiful, but she is a sinful person. Deception can easily be seen here, since Claudio was the one calling Hero a ‘rotten orange’, but only because of what other people tricked him into thinking. If Don John did not trick Claudio into thinking Hero slept with Borachio, then he would not have had to condemn her. Another metaphor that emphasizes the theme of deception is when Don John states ‘I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace’ (1.3.23–24). Don John would rather be something of less value if it means it does not have to do with his brother. Since he is jealous of his brother, he only wants to make his life worse. That is where the lies, misunderstandings and deception are shown and that can be seen in actions such as him sabotaging Claudio and Hero’s wedding. Metaphors play a great part of apprehending the theme of

The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes was written in 1554. This novel was an inspiring and great representation of a segment in the 16th century Spanish society. Even though the Author is unknown, it was translated by W.S. Merwin and introduced by Juan Goytisolo. The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes is centered on a young boy who has to adept in the world daily struggles for existence and goes through many experiences along the way ,becoming a servant for many different masters. He also discovers the world’s injustices, and adapts to what he has to go through in his journey to survive. Throughout the novel The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes shows how the fictional literature plays a huge part in social criticism, the Spanish economy has a big effect, and how the squire and other characters reflect upon the novel.

Sancho only plays the part of squire in hopes of becoming wealthy and owning his own island. Quixote yearns to recreate this world he has long read of: chivalry, battles with giants and evil beings and the rescue of maidens. However, in a more realistic sense, Don Quixote deals with windmills, bedclothes, and injustices. While Don Quixote represents illusion and imagination, Sancho Panza represents reality. They complement each other in a dualistic way. They foil each other in such a way that they might be seen as two halves of a whole. They represent a person who needs to have imagination whilst living in reality, because too much reality is destructive for any one man to deal with. However, their relationship, which is a combination of idealism and realism, affects each other in a negative way, in terms of the things they stand

Don Giovanni is an operatic character that plays a womanizer during the 17th century. This was a play first performed in 1789, a successful creation of Mozart and DaPonte. During the play, Don Giovanni represents a sociopath that is lead by his incredible weakness for women. This weakness leads him into darkness, complete with seduction, and murder. Since the beginning, many people have seen Don Giovanni as a hero but many others have considered him a villain. The actions of Don Giovanni are not completely heroic neither are they totally villainous. But is noticeable that throughout the play he is more a hero than a villain.

“At the heart of Don Quixote is the discrepancy between external appearance and internal perception.” says Wirfs-Brock (2). In that respect, Don Quixote is depicted as a character who is guided merely by his internal perceptions, disregarding external appearances. Most of the time, he is deluded, depended on his faculty of imagination, stuck in his make-believe world through the guidance of chivalric books he is obsessed with and “everything he read in his books took possession of his imagination” (1/1 p.27). He takes everything he reads in those books for real as if they were parts of history and decides to join this glorious history by making a knight errant of him. In order to put all he has read into practice, he puts on a rusty armor, devises a heroic name for himself which is ‘Don Quixote de la Mancha’ and for his horse which is ‘Rocinante’. Additionally, since “a knight errant without a lady-love is a tree without leaves or fruit, a body without a soul” (1/1 p.29) he finds “a good-looking peasant girl” called Aldonza Lorenzo and decides to call her ‘Dulcinea del Toboso’. So this peasant girl becomes a princess, the most beautiful lady in the world for him to whom he may serve “as if he really were in love” (1/1 p.31).

In this interaction, Feste unveils Maria’s ignorance to others’ feelings. Feste is forcibly asked by Maria to dress as a priest and talk to Malvolio. Though Maria finds it entertaining, Feste is not as appealed, and makes many excuses to not act the part such as being too short. This scene in the play displays the true ignorance of Maria by her persistence and encouragement for Feste to trick Malvolio. Feste succumbs to her peer pressure unwillingly.