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The Adventure With The: Windmills

The document summarizes Miguel de Cervantes' novel "Don Quixote". It provides background on Cervantes and an overview of the plot. In the novel, Don Quixote mistakes windmills for giants and charges at them, only to be struck by the windmill sails and fall to the ground, to the dismay of his squire Sancho Panza.

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The Adventure With The: Windmills

The document summarizes Miguel de Cervantes' novel "Don Quixote". It provides background on Cervantes and an overview of the plot. In the novel, Don Quixote mistakes windmills for giants and charges at them, only to be struck by the windmill sails and fall to the ground, to the dismay of his squire Sancho Panza.

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THE ADVENTURE

WITH THE
Windmills

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

ILIGAN, AJ
LORZANO, MC
MOMONGAN, KL
AUTHOR'S
BACKGROUND

born on September 29, 1547, in Alcalá de


Henares, Spain—died April 22, 1616, in
Madrid), was an Early Modern Spanish
writer widely regarded as the greatest writer
in the Spanish language and one of the
world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best
known for his novel "Don Quixote", which
became one of the world's greatest literary
masterpieces. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
ABOUT THE WORK
Don Quixote is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel
de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts,
in 1605 and 1615, its full title is The Ingenious
Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha or, in
Spanish, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la
Mancha.

Don Quixote teaches us that life is to be


challenged, that the passion and discipline of a
willful human spirit is a vital element of being a
leader. Quixote does not accept reality. He
imposes his imagination, his commitment and
his joy on it.
CHARACTER WEB
Don Quixote The novel’s tragicomic hero. Don Quixote’s main
quest in life is to revive knight-errantry in a world devoid of chivalric
virtues and values. Sancho Panza The peasant laborer—greedy
but kind, faithful but cowardly—whom Don Quixote takes as his
squire. Rocinante Don Quixote’s barn horse. Rocinante is slow but
faithful, and he is as worn out as Don Quixote is. Dapple Sancho’s
donkey. Dapple’s disappearance and reappearance is the subject
of much controversy both within the story and within the literary
criticism concerning Don Quixote.
1. "There! there!" he cried. "Fortune is with us. Look yonder, Sancho! I see at
least thirty huge giants, and I intend to fight all of them. When I have overcome
and slain them we will enrich ourselves with their spoils."

2. "What giants?" asked Sancho Panza. "Why, those who are standing in the fields
just before us," answered the knight. "See their long arms! I have read that some
of their race had arms which reached more than two miles."

3."Look at them better, master," said Sancho. "Those are not giants; they are
windmills. The things which you call arms are sails, and they flap around when the
wind blows."

4. "Friend Sancho," said the knight, very sternly, "it is plain that you are not used
to adventures. I tell you those things are giants. If you are afraid, go and hide
yourself and say your prayers. I shall attack them at once."

5. "Stand, cowards!" he cried. "Stand your ground! Do not fly from a single knight
who dares you all to meet him in fair fight." At that moment the wind began to
blow briskly and all the mill sails were set moving. They seemed to be answering
his challenge.
6.He paused a moment. "O my Dulcinea, fairest of ladies," he cried, "help me in
this perilous adventure!"

7.Then he couched his lance; he covered himself with his shield; he rushed
with Rozinante's utmost speed upon the nearest windmill.

8.The long lance struck into one of the whirling sails and was carried upward
with such swiftness that it was torn from the knight's firm grasp. It was whirled
into the air and broken into shivers. At the same moment the knight and his
steed were hurled forward and thrown rolling upon the ground.

9. Sancho Panza hurried to the place as quickly as his dappled donkey could
carry him. His master was lying helpless by the roadside. The helmet had fallen
from his head, and the shield had been hurled to the farther side of the hedge.
"Mercy on me, master!" cried the squire. "Didn't I tell you they were
windmills?"
10."Peace, friend Sancho," answered Don Quixote, rubbing the dust
from his eyes. "There is nothing so uncertain as war. That wicked
enchanter, Freston, who stole my books has done all this. They
were giants, as I told you; but he changed them into windmills so
that I should not have the honor of victory. But mind you, Sancho, I
will get even with him in the end."
SETTING
ELEMENTS OF THE

16th-17th Century in the Village of La Mancha, Spain


Inns and Countryside
STORY

POINT OF VIEW
narrates most of the novel’s action in the third person, following
Don Quixote’s actions and only occasionally entering into the
thoughts of his characters.
CONFLICT: man vs himself
ELEMENTS OF THE

The First Part: Don Quixote sets out with Sancho Panza on a life
of chivalric adventures in a world no longer governed by chivalric
STORY

values; the priest attempts to bring Don Quixote home and cure
his madness.

The Second Part: Don Quixote continues his adventures with


Sancho, and Sampson Carrasco and the priest conspire to bring
Don Quixote home by vanquishing him.
PERSONIFICATION
where Quixote battles windmills which
he sees it as Giants.

WINDMILLS
It symbolizes our own meaningless
struggles with unreal or exaggerated
enemies.

QUOTABLE STATEMENT
"help me in this perilous adventure!"
presents a plethora of themes for the
reader to consider, and they range from

THEME imagination, delusion, madness,


knighthood, love and romance, royalty
and conquest, reality vs fantasy, among
others.
CULTURAL
IMPLICATION
In their travels and adventures, they encounter
life on the roads of Spain. Sometimes they are
treated with respect— for example, by “the
gentleman in green” who invites them to his
home and listens to Quixote with genuine
interest—but more often they are ridiculed, as
when the Duke and Duchess bring the knight
and squire to their estate only for the purpose
of mocking them.
Don Quixote meets some adventure
with windmills. When he was
IMPLICATION passing on his way, he came
across some huge monsters which
OF THE had four hands. He assumed that
they were ready to kill him and he
TITLE started to fight with them. But he
was pushed down by the blow of air
from the windmills.
Thank
you!!

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