Quixote & Panza vs Holmes and Watson: A Comparison
The Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes was known during his time as a great writer of fiction. He wrote a good number of books, but the story he is most known for is, without a doubt, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha, now usually shortened to Don Quixote. Cervantes’ stick-thin, basin-wearing, certifiably mad “knight-errant” Quixote and his donkey-riding deluded sidekick Sancho Panza are well-known and well-loved throughout the world. As the story goes, Alonso Quixana, an old Spanish gentleman read so many books on knight-errantry and chivalry that he “lost the use of his reason2,” which is to say, he went mad. Believing himself to be a knight
The Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes was known during his time as a great writer of fiction. He wrote a good number of books, but the story he is most known for is, without a doubt, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha, now usually shortened to Don Quixote. Cervantes’ stick-thin, basin-wearing, certifiably mad “knight-errant” Quixote and his donkey-riding deluded sidekick Sancho Panza are well-known and well-loved throughout the world. As the story goes, Alonso Quixana, an old Spanish gentleman read so many books on knight-errantry and chivalry that he “lost the use of his reason2,” which is to say, he went mad. Believing himself to be a knight