Miguel de Cervantes Spanish author was famous for one of the greatest novel of the Spanish golden age Don Quixote de la Mancha. Many cultural advances in the society of Spain had taken place such as paintings, music, Architecture, and literature. Even though Spain was at a peak in its cultural age there were still many create social issues at the time. There was a very strong line of nobility woven into the fabric of society. This created a caste system; many people aspired to be more then what they could achieve in life but could not. Slavery was another issues during this time period and much of the Spanish population was slaves. Through the arts Miguel de Cervantes uses his tale of Don Quixote de la Mancha to express to the people of
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He is not afraid to get hurt physically and is beat several times. Don Quixote as a warriors code he is an honorable knight and he tries to instill those good morals into others. He is against slavery and believes in love and faithfulness and that good people will be rewarded with good. His goal was to travel and have some adventures and to create some more good in this world, there are very few nobler acts then this. Reality is a hard truth for Quixote to faces and in the end he is defeated and dies. Such is the fate of most people who take this path. It is not in their defeat but in the journey and actions that made them. Cervantes message to the world at this time and perhaps even now is that one man can be right while the rest of society is wrong. There are many injustices in the world and very few like those of Don Quixote that can stand up to the insanity of the world. The biggest point that Cervantes was maybe trying to point to was not just an issues in the golden age of Spain but the world. (“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should
He is not afraid to get hurt physically and is beat several times. Don Quixote as a warriors code he is an honorable knight and he tries to instill those good morals into others. He is against slavery and believes in love and faithfulness and that good people will be rewarded with good. His goal was to travel and have some adventures and to create some more good in this world, there are very few nobler acts then this. Reality is a hard truth for Quixote to faces and in the end he is defeated and dies. Such is the fate of most people who take this path. It is not in their defeat but in the journey and actions that made them. Cervantes message to the world at this time and perhaps even now is that one man can be right while the rest of society is wrong. There are many injustices in the world and very few like those of Don Quixote that can stand up to the insanity of the world. The biggest point that Cervantes was maybe trying to point to was not just an issues in the golden age of Spain but the world. (“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should