From the beautiful mountains of Toledo to the vast cliffs of Cuenca, and bordered by the rolling hills of the Sierra Morena, the city of La Mancha is where our adventurous and romantic hero resides. Miguel Cervantes describes the setting where chivalric romances are mocked and characteristics of old are mixed in the wrong time in his novel Don Quixote. The novel focuses on a chivalrous knight who adventures through the cities of Spain fantasizing about love and fighting to regain his sanity. Cervantes uses romanticism to represent the idealistic relationships that develop throughout the novel. Through the many deceitful relationships in the book, Don Quixote and Lady Dulcinea, Don Fernando and Dorothea, and Cardenio and Luscinda illustrate Cervantes’ theme that although love is
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As an example of the theme, Don Fernando relays his message of not wanting Dorothea by marrying someone else. The love she holds for Don Fernando is one of a kind, a one-sided love. Ever since he pulled out a ring, she feels as if she made a strong commitment to a man in return gave her none. As Dorothea is telling her story of how she was abandoned, she explains, “’That treacherous man visited me only once more though access was free to him, as I had become his own, and would remain so until he felt disposed to let the world know that I was his wife’” (Cervantes 154). When Fernando does not visit Dorothea, she becomes antsy. When she finds out he has married someone else, someone more beautiful than she, she breaks down because that woman is supposed to be her; she is the wife of the famous Don Fernando. A deceitful Dorothea reveals her colors for a manipulative Don Fernando when she tells her story of when he left her for Luscinda – a forced marriage. Dorothea’s love is desperate and Don Fernando’s love is put into the games he played with
As an example of the theme, Don Fernando relays his message of not wanting Dorothea by marrying someone else. The love she holds for Don Fernando is one of a kind, a one-sided love. Ever since he pulled out a ring, she feels as if she made a strong commitment to a man in return gave her none. As Dorothea is telling her story of how she was abandoned, she explains, “’That treacherous man visited me only once more though access was free to him, as I had become his own, and would remain so until he felt disposed to let the world know that I was his wife’” (Cervantes 154). When Fernando does not visit Dorothea, she becomes antsy. When she finds out he has married someone else, someone more beautiful than she, she breaks down because that woman is supposed to be her; she is the wife of the famous Don Fernando. A deceitful Dorothea reveals her colors for a manipulative Don Fernando when she tells her story of when he left her for Luscinda – a forced marriage. Dorothea’s love is desperate and Don Fernando’s love is put into the games he played with