Month: October 2014

In this final chapter of section one of the novel Don Quixote, Quixote gets into two final fights. The fight is with a goatherder in a bar, this is interrupted by the sound of a trumpet and the introduction of a group of monks carrying a holy image, Quixote imagines this to be an abducted […]

This week, the class was assigned a couple readings: Chapter 52 of the usual Don Quixote and an article on social media. Reading this week has sparked a lot of ideas in my head, so I’ll try my best to make it not too hard to understand. First off, Chapter 52 of Don Quixote finds […]

The final chapter of Part One of Don Quixote, chapter fifty-two, centers on Quixote’s quick temper and misconception of reality. Offended by the goatherd’s inability to recognize his prestige and name, Don Quixote suddenly shifts from kind words to violent … Continue reading →

I have to say I found chapter 52 of Don Quijote rather entertaining. In this chapter, Don Quijote decides to fight a goatherd for insulting him and a group of people who were carrying a statue of Mary because he thought the statue was a kidnapped woman. Don Quijote proceeds to try to fight the […]

In chapter 52, An important part to me was how Quixote being the foolish man he is, mistook a statue of Virgin Mary. An inanimate object, for a captured lady. The difference between a statue and a human is, the actions the human would have made, the statue wouldn’t. The women would have moved or […]

This week’s Don Quixote reading covered the end of Volume One, and of the Second Sally of Don Quixote. The chapter begins in an inn, with a confrontation erupting between Don Quixote and a goatherd who questioned him on his being a knight-errant. As they fight everyone in the inn has a good laugh at […]

In chapter 52 of Don Quixote we find our hero getting into more fights, as usual. After getting beaten up by a goatherd Don Quixote looks out at the street and sees “some lady of rank being abducted by those rogues and insolent brigands” (487), but it’s actually a procession of penitents carrying a statue […]

We frequently mention in class how Don Quijote as novel was frequently a topic of comedy. It was a source…