But even if the bones don’t prove to be real, Cervantes will always be remembered as the famous author of Don Quixote, a sad but funny novel about a wandering knight whose adventures are still being translated into many languages four centuries later.

This is the Don Quixote Effect. When this happens, your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions are inappropriate in the current situation. This is due to the fact that habitus is in the past. It does not change even when changes happen in the environment.

In Don Quixote, Quixote denies himself such basic human needs as food and sleep during much of the story. On his quest, he thinks of Dulcinea del…

Sancho Panza

What is ironic about the name Don Quixote give his horse? It is the opposite of what he is .

I’m more familiar with sancho as the Mexican-Spanish slang for the less-hysterical “other man” in a relationship — the man that a husband or boyfriend knows his mujer is cheating on him with when said husband or boyfriend isn’t around (the female equivalent is a sancha).

“Rocinante”, then, follows Cervantes’ pattern of using ambiguous, multivalent words, which is common throughout the novel. Rocinante’s name, then, signifies his change in status from the “old nag” of before to the “foremost” steed.

After a full day, Don Quixote and Sancho come to a field of windmills, which Don Quixote mistakes for giants.

After being knocked down by the windmill, how does Don Quixote explain the fact that he has not killed a giant? Don blames it on the magic Freston.