1. Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes

2. Don Quixote Author: Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Nationality: Spanish
Published: 1605 (Part 1)-1615
(Part 2)
Format: Novel Genre: Parody/Satire
Literary Significance: Considered to be the first modern novel & most important Spanish piece of literature, First piece of literature to satirize Chivalry/Historical events

3. Don Quixote Background Knights: The Age of Chivalry
500 – 1400 CE

4. Chivalry Invincible strength Brave and Just Modest
Loyalty to superiors, courtesy to equals,
and compassion to weakness
Devotion to church
An ideal! Although difficult to accomplish, chivalry was the model for all knights

5. The Ideal Knight Rich and influential family Years of training
Kept the peace and fought in war
Competed in tournaments, entertainment
Kept their people/lands in order
Also knew how to: dance, play
instruments, hunt, fish, wrestle, ride
Encouraged to choose a lady to pledge their service

6. What Was the Spanish Inquisition?
• 1478 – 1834
Spain
Queen Isabella and King
Ferdinand
Launched to purify Spanish society, especially from Jews and Moors (Muslims)
Successful – by the 1500’s, Spain was almost completely Catholic

7. The Spanish Inquisition The accused were: •Questioned/ Given a Trial
•Tortured to illicit a
confession
•Pardoned or killed

8. Inquisition Torture

9. Parody and Satire Parody
An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
Don Quixote is a parody: Pokes fun at knights and chivalry.
Satire
The use of humor to make social or political commentary.
Don Quixote is a satire: Political commentary
on the Spanish Inquisition.

10. Parody and Satire
Monty Python Black Knight

11. Parody and Satire
Monty Python Spanish Inquisition

12. Purpose of Satire
• Cervantes showed the inherent silliness of chivalric romances by making his main character, Don Quixote, an ordinary, crazy old man who believes he is an actual knight.

13. CHARACTERIZATION: Foil
What is it?
Character with an opposite personality to the main
character
Why is it used?
To highlight/emphasize the main character’s
personality
The contrast reveals the personality of each better
What is an example?
Batman/Robin
Ralph/Felix
Will/Jack
Sully/Mike
Anna/Elsa

14. CHARACTERIZATION: Foil Sancho Panza:
Don Quixote’s loyal servant who follows him on his adventures knowing that it is all a farce
Sancho contrasts Quixote’s brash, unrealistic view of life with a more measured, safe approach (the voice of reason)
Although he is loyal, Sancho is also out to get something from Quixote – wealth and power

15. Don Quixote:
Modern Connections

16. Honoré Daumier (1868)

17. Pablo Picasso
Don Quixote

18. Don Quixote Honore Daumier 19th c.

19. Diego
Rivera
Calavera of Don Quixote by José Guadalupe Posada ( )

20. Don Quixote Intaglio Etching 1971
Salvador
Dali
Don Quixote Intaglio Etching 1971

21. Don Quixote Scott Schomburg Minneapolis College of Art Digital Image, 2001

22. Man o[La Mancha {19721

23. Hallmark Hall of Fame
Production

24. major motion picture by Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam’s
film
Lost in La
Mancha
(2003):
the unmaking of a
major motion picture by Terry Gilliam

25. Let’s read…