La Mancha

Dare to Dream, Dare to Defy “In Iraq, thousands of terrorism’s victims go unnamed,” screams the headline of Moni Basu’s article on CNN.com, published on January 12, 2017. Negative articles like this one seem to flood the media, attempting to open reader’s eyes to the horrors millions experience on the other side of the world. Daily articles record the devastation humans have wreaked upon the environment and on others’ lives. While individuals are ridiculed for their bodies, their personalities,…

The idea that an insane offender is not liable to be punished under the criminal law is stated surprisingly often in this text. Early on, in Chapter III of Book I, Don Quixote has gone to an inn that he takes to be a castle. The innkeeper, whom Don Quixote thinks is the castellan, is amused by Don Quixote’s lunacy and hopeful that he might make money out of him. The innkeeper goes along with Don Quixote’s delusions and promises to dub him a knight. He garners interest in Don Quixote among the…

Don Quixote is still being read in classrooms today. Morrison 4Works CitedKashdan, Joanne G. "Don Quixote De La Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes." Salem PressEncyclopedia of Literature (2015): Research Starters. Web. 20 Mar. 2016Sayre, Henry M. Discovering the Humanities. Third. Boston: Pearson Education, 2013. Print.Schmidt, Rachel Lynn. Critical Images: The Canonization…

In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, a confusion of identity stemming from the limits between reality and fantasy leads to the main character’s insanity. Both characters fall in social status as a result of their experienced psychotic tendencies. Through their failure to comprehend situations, culminating in naïve attempts at societal reparations and failed acts of charity contributes to the similar endings where the social statuses of Don Quixote and Oedipus fall.…

Mad for God, written by Sara Tilghman Nalle, is a microhistory about the life of a Spanish wool carder, his sacrilegious statements and beliefs, and his trial at the hands of the Inquisition in 16th century Spain. Nalle dissects this time period with a revisionist approach; she attempts a historical reconstruction and succeeds in humanizing the actions of certain clergy and officers of the Holy Catholic Church. By including personal details about the thought process and decision making of lead…

Looking Within to Learn a Lesson About Surviving Violence Memoirists who articulate lessons that all readers can relate to tend to have the most powerful impact on readers. Alice Sebold is one of these memorable memoirists. She shares her experience of being violently attacked and sexually assaulted in her story ironically titled, Lucky. Throughout the memoir, she relays the message that "No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved" (Sebold 60). Despite…

Don Quixote and “The Spoil of Antwerp” “The Spoil of Antwerp” (1575) by George Gascoigne (1535–1577) and Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) are two pieces of literature from late the 16th century to early 17th century, respectively; that can that have several parallel elements that helped each of them achieve a different purpose for the time and place that they were published. Just like in all literature, the lives of the authors significantly impacted the writings as a…

6 Degrees of Separation: Jack Cole & Casey Nicholaw Six degrees of separation is a theory based on the idea that all people or things in this world can be “connected” through six steps or less. While it may be broad, and not always clear connections, it is very possible to connect any two people in less than six degrees. For this assignment, I will be connecting two famous dance choreographers: Jack Cole, and Casey Nicholaw. Though the two don’t seem to have much in common other than their…

The Brotherhood is meant to represent the Communist Party which Ralph Ellison strongly disproves for many reasons: “It stifles free thought; it ignores people’s uniqueness; it attempts to simplify the paradoxes of social life” (Ambivalent Man 622). These problems will become apparent with the narrator accepts the invitation after which he is given a new name and apartment. Before leaving Mary’s home, he stumbles around a coin bank in the shape of a black man with exaggerated features. Angered…

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.…