The character of Don Quixote de la Mancha can be explained as one delusional chivalrous knighthood He travel’s the Spain countryside with his trustee steed, Rocinante. He would have described himself as a knight errant on a journey to confirm his existents as one of the last noble men pursuing his dream of knighthood. He fights for his heart, the hand of his fair maiden Dulcinea. He was a studied man constantly reading books allowing them to take him to a time where chivalry ruled. He focused on the notion of chivalry as one to live his life by and strived to be a better person defined by the chivalric code. He claimed he was smarter for reading them He valued knowledge more then he valued wealth or popularity. His lust for books drove him
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Even in his delusional state of mind as he travels his heart was always stuck in the books that he had surrounded himself by. To be knighted he swore an oath of his life giving it away for the pursuit of justice and honor for the people of his world. Before he was knighted he made himself known as an errant knight following the teaching of some of his books by watching over his armor for 2 hours before he was to be knight accosted a man attempting to water his mule “O bold knight, whoever you may be, who thus would dare to lay hands upon the accoutrements of the most valiant man of arms that ever girder on a sword, look well what you do and desist if you do not wish to pay with your life for your insolence” (Cervantes,401) he roared before Don Quixote smashed him in the face with his lance. Don thought the man was a knight and thereby had to defend the honor of the vigil ceremony he was attempting to partake of before he was knighted by the innkeeper. After taking down a second man and facing a barrage of rocks thrown by provocateurs, the innkeeper agreed to knight him quickly to avoid any other issues. Don was proud of himself in this because he did what was necessary by his teaching to attain the lever of chivalry of a knight errant. by constantly striving to enforce the code by which he lived by he showed that his code of chivalry was grater then
Even in his delusional state of mind as he travels his heart was always stuck in the books that he had surrounded himself by. To be knighted he swore an oath of his life giving it away for the pursuit of justice and honor for the people of his world. Before he was knighted he made himself known as an errant knight following the teaching of some of his books by watching over his armor for 2 hours before he was to be knight accosted a man attempting to water his mule “O bold knight, whoever you may be, who thus would dare to lay hands upon the accoutrements of the most valiant man of arms that ever girder on a sword, look well what you do and desist if you do not wish to pay with your life for your insolence” (Cervantes,401) he roared before Don Quixote smashed him in the face with his lance. Don thought the man was a knight and thereby had to defend the honor of the vigil ceremony he was attempting to partake of before he was knighted by the innkeeper. After taking down a second man and facing a barrage of rocks thrown by provocateurs, the innkeeper agreed to knight him quickly to avoid any other issues. Don was proud of himself in this because he did what was necessary by his teaching to attain the lever of chivalry of a knight errant. by constantly striving to enforce the code by which he lived by he showed that his code of chivalry was grater then