Foreshadowing In Don Quixote

What happens in the story? Summarize the plot (the gist of the happenings). In the story, the main character, at first known only as Quexana, whose mind is addled from spending all of his time reading fantasy stories, becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming a knight and going on chivalrous adventures. He gathers up his great grandfather’s old armor, renames Himself Don Quixote and his horse Rocinante, and sets out on his quest. He comes upon an inn, which he sees as a castle, where he terrorizes and confuses the people staying there. He gets the innkeeper to knight him, who does it mostly to get rid of him. He is so thrilled with being knighted, he decides to go home. After attempting to stop a man from beating his employee, and thinking …show more content…
There is some foreshadowing in the story, when Don Quixote’s niece asks her him, “But uncle, who mixes you up in these quarrels? Would it not be better to remain at peace in your own house instead of roaming the world looking for better bread than ever came of wheat, never reflecting that many go for wool and come back shorn?” By saying this she is foreshadowing that he is being foolish in his actions and will get injured by going out on adventures instead of just staying at home and being happy with what he has. What conflicts does the work include? There are many conflicts in the story between Don Quixote and other minor characters, but the biggest conflict is between what he believes to be true in the story, and what is actually real and happening in the story. There is a constant struggle with how he perceives the world and how it actually is. For example, when Don Quixote comes across the field of windmills, what he actually sees are giants. Even when Sancho tells him, “What we see there are not giants but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the sails that turned by the wind make the millstone go.” He is still in denial, and only relents that they are in fact windmills after he attacks one and gets hurt, but even then he says that the giants were turned into windmills by the sage Friston right as he went to attack …show more content…
The narrator’s straightforward point of view helps to display Don Quixote’s delusions of being able to show what is really happening in the story compared to what Don Quixote thinks to be true. The author’s outside point of view also helps to explain who Don Quixote is as a person, as well as how he comes to believe his own madness. If the story was told by Don Quixote himself, you would not be able to understand the important role that his books play on his behavior. The perspective of the narrator serves to show the clear theme of honor and justice throughout the