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Essay On Don Quixote

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Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature. It has been around for more than four hundred years. It is still being read and it is a work that is dear to many people’s hearts. The story is mainly about an older individual named Alonso Quixana who lives in La Mancha in central Spain. After, he read thousands of book about knights he started to go insane and decides to change his name to Don Quixote. So, when he finished all his books he started to believe that he was one. In this piece Don Quixote experiences love, morality, law, justice and much more. But, reality and fantasy are two major points in this story. This story is very much related in the 21st century because in society today people who have big aspirations …show more content…

Even though his brain wasn’t functioning anymore he still believed that he was a knight and lots of people criticized him for believing that. But, one characteristic that he pointed out was that everytime someone would try to bring him down he would only get stronger, even though he got hurt he still stood up with his injuries. Now, how can this four-hundred-year-old work of literature relate to the modern society today? Teenagers and child often doubt their dreams and follow what society tells them are going to help them in the long run. This isn’t wrong and anyway but for example, a child grows up wanting to be a teacher but once in high school people in a sense brainwash them thinking that they should not do because they don’t earn enough money and they should instead become a doctor. This means that they don’t believe in their own values and dreams. He learns to listen to himself and ignore the voices around him. This is seen in a lot of children films and stories as …show more content…

Especially those who grew up not knowing how there life would turn out to be. A conflict that has been going around in today’s world is “Dreamers” those who have immigrant parents that were brought to the United States in order to have a better life. These people’s dreams have been ruining more and more each day because there is little to no hope left in achieving those goals. An impactful quote that was said in Don Quixote was, “I do know who I am, and who is in my depth has nothing to do with your ideas and with your expectations about me” (book) What this quote is trying to tell it’s audience is that sometimes our highest most outrageous goals sometimes seem untouchable and we get scared when other see us trying to reach that goal. The Scientific Journal of Humanistic Studies states, “Being something, someone, having an established identity is comfortable, but becoming someone is risky” (Cun 3). Having a dream isn't unhealthy or dangerous nor is being imaginative either. But, the population tends to believe that if you are an imaginative person you are going insane. Which is not the case, this is the reason why Don Quixote de la Mancha became such a modern character. He was someone who desired to become someone, and to be able to metamorphose the world in a more favorable way. At the time this book was written reality and fantasy were two completely opposite terms, no one had ever thought to put those two together. Cervantes sure made a bold

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