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Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Cervantes


CervantesApril 23 - UNESCO’s Int’l Day of the Book (Cervantes’ and Shakespeare’s death anniversary)



Served in the Spanish Navy; captured by Algerians in 1575




Received 3 gunshot wounds which he was proud of (one rendered his left arm useless)




Received 3 gunshot wounds which he was proud of (one rendered his left arm useless)

Jailed twice for discrepancies in account


Don Quixote


Don Quixote1605, 1615 - made Cervantes popular but not rich (sold the rights to publisher Francisco de Robles)



1614 - fake sequel by Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda




First modern novel




First modern novel

Most influential Spanish literary work


A novel of purpose


Satirises the romances of chivalry

A novel of purpose



Challenges a popular form of literature

A novel of purpose




Illuminates aspects of human nature

A novel of purpose





Speculates about the reading and writing process

A novel of purpose





Speculates about the reading and writing process

Influenced the development of prose fiction

A novel of purpose


Genre


Genre• picaresque - an episodic style of fiction dealing with

the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero




• satire - the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics





• farce - a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations





• farce - a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations


Characters (for our purposes)



• Alonso Quixada/Don Quixote




• Sancho Panza




• Sancho Panza

• Aldonza Lorenzo/Dulcinea del Toboso




• Sancho Panza


• curate/Pedro Perez




• Sancho Panza



• barber/Nicholas




• Sancho Panza



• barber/Nicholas

• Sanson Carrasco




• Sancho Panza



• barber/Nicholas

• Sanson Carrasco

• Cide Hamete Benengeli




• Sancho Panza



• barber/Nicholas

• Sanson Carrasco


• Cervantes




• Sancho Panza



• barber/Nicholas

• Sanson Carrasco


• Cervantes

• Rozinante




• Sancho Panza



• barber/Nicholas

• Sanson Carrasco


• Cervantes

• Rozinante

• Dapple


Setting

• various Spanish towns


Setting

• various Spanish towns


POV

• Third person omniscient (narrative)

• First person (literary discussions)


POV

• Third person omniscient (narrative)

• First person (literary discussions)


Plot


Plot• Don Quixote decides to become a knight-

errant and sets out for exploits




• Don Quixote encounters various adventures





• Don Quixote, vanquished in battle, is compelled to go home






• Don Quixote is sane again, renouncing knight-errantry, and decides to become a shepherd







• Don Quixote pines away and dies







• Don Quixote pines away and dies


themes, motifs, symbols


themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration



& narration

• anachro-nistic systems of morality



& narration


• class & worth



& narration


• class & worth



& narration


• class & worth

• honor



& narration


• class & worth

• honor

• romance



& narration


• class & worth

• honor

• romance

• literature



& narration


• class & worth

• honor

• romance

• literature



& narration


• class & worth

• honor

• romance

• literature

• books, ma-nuscripts



& narration


• class & worth

• honor

• romance

• literature


• horses



& narration


• class & worth

• honor

• romance

• literature


• horses

• inns



& narration


• class & worth

• honor

• romance

• literature


• horses

• inns




Education

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