Cervantes' greatest work, Don Quixote, is an amazing parody with a realistic idea. Don Quixote is a country gentleman, an enthusiastic visionary crazed by his reading of romances of chivalry, who rides forth to defend the oppressed and to right wrongs. The theme of the book, in brief, concerns Hidalgo Alonso Quijano, who, because of his reading in books about chivalry, comes to believe that everything they say is true and decides to become a …showed first 75 words of 507 total…

…showed last 75 words of 507 total…Quixote’s squire is because he is promised riches. The book Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is a capricious tale of an older man’s quest to become a knight. Outfitted in such absurd gear as a bucket for a helmet and dubbed knight by an innkeeper the old man sets out with his squire and has many comical adventures. All of this makes for an entertaining journey throughout seventeenth century Spain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**