The midlife crisis seems almost a cliché today: bored and disillusioned, an aging man drastically alters his life in a desperate attempt to find meaning. Certainly, Don Quixote seems to suffer from that very disorder (and perhaps dementia as well), yet his experience proves earth shattering not only for him, but to an entire society and world as well. Don Quixote’s radicalism exists as an antigen that utterly ravages a world that thrives on …showed first 75 words of 551 total…

…showed last 75 words of 551 total…the inverse of what’s expected, like attacking priests and freeing prisoners. Every action that defiles and attacks accepted convention fit perfectly into the new world and new value system he has created. Alonso Quixano could not endure the world proper, where shepherd boys are beaten and class obstructs the course of true love. Under the guise of knight errant, our hero is finally able to battle the hypocrisies and injustices inherent in the system.