Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Cervantes

Thursday, December 8, 2011

CervantesApril 23 - UNESCO’s Int’l Day of the Book (Cervantes’ and Shakespeare’s death anniversary)

Thursday, December 8, 2011

CervantesApril 23 - UNESCO’s Int’l Day of the Book (Cervantes’ and Shakespeare’s death anniversary)

Served in the Spanish Navy; captured by Algerians in 1575

Thursday, December 8, 2011

CervantesApril 23 - UNESCO’s Int’l Day of the Book (Cervantes’ and Shakespeare’s death anniversary)

Served in the Spanish Navy; captured by Algerians in 1575

Received 3 gunshot wounds which he was proud of (one rendered his left arm useless)

Thursday, December 8, 2011

CervantesApril 23 - UNESCO’s Int’l Day of the Book (Cervantes’ and Shakespeare’s death anniversary)

Served in the Spanish Navy; captured by Algerians in 1575

Received 3 gunshot wounds which he was proud of (one rendered his left arm useless)

Jailed twice for discrepancies in account

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Don Quixote

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Don Quixote1605, 1615 - made Cervantes popular but not rich (sold the rights to publisher Francisco de Robles)

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Don Quixote1605, 1615 - made Cervantes popular but not rich (sold the rights to publisher Francisco de Robles)

1614 - fake sequel by Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Don Quixote1605, 1615 - made Cervantes popular but not rich (sold the rights to publisher Francisco de Robles)

1614 - fake sequel by Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda

First modern novel

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Don Quixote1605, 1615 - made Cervantes popular but not rich (sold the rights to publisher Francisco de Robles)

1614 - fake sequel by Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda

First modern novel

Most influential Spanish literary work

Thursday, December 8, 2011

A novel of purpose

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Satirises the romances of chivalry

A novel of purpose

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Satirises the romances of chivalry

Challenges a popular form of literature

A novel of purpose

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Satirises the romances of chivalry

Challenges a popular form of literature

Illuminates aspects of human nature

A novel of purpose

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Satirises the romances of chivalry

Challenges a popular form of literature

Illuminates aspects of human nature

Speculates about the reading and writing process

A novel of purpose

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Satirises the romances of chivalry

Challenges a popular form of literature

Illuminates aspects of human nature

Speculates about the reading and writing process

Influenced the development of prose fiction

A novel of purpose

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Genre

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Genre• picaresque - an episodic style of fiction dealing with

the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Genre• picaresque - an episodic style of fiction dealing with

the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero

• satire - the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Genre• picaresque - an episodic style of fiction dealing with

the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero

• satire - the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics

• farce - a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Genre• picaresque - an episodic style of fiction dealing with

the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero

• satire - the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics

• farce - a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Characters (for our purposes)

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Characters (for our purposes)

• Alonso Quixada/Don Quixote

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Characters (for our purposes)

• Alonso Quixada/Don Quixote

• Sancho Panza

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Characters (for our purposes)

• Alonso Quixada/Don Quixote

• Sancho Panza

• Aldonza Lorenzo/Dulcinea del Toboso

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Characters (for our purposes)

• Alonso Quixada/Don Quixote

• Sancho Panza

• Aldonza Lorenzo/Dulcinea del Toboso

• curate/Pedro Perez

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Characters (for our purposes)

• Alonso Quixada/Don Quixote

• Sancho Panza

• Aldonza Lorenzo/Dulcinea del Toboso

• curate/Pedro Perez

• barber/Nicholas

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Characters (for our purposes)

• Alonso Quixada/Don Quixote

• Sancho Panza

• Aldonza Lorenzo/Dulcinea del Toboso

• curate/Pedro Perez

• barber/Nicholas

• Sanson Carrasco

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Characters (for our purposes)

• Alonso Quixada/Don Quixote

• Sancho Panza

• Aldonza Lorenzo/Dulcinea del Toboso

• curate/Pedro Perez

• barber/Nicholas

• Sanson Carrasco

• Cide Hamete Benengeli

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Characters (for our purposes)

• Alonso Quixada/Don Quixote

• Sancho Panza

• Aldonza Lorenzo/Dulcinea del Toboso

• curate/Pedro Perez

• barber/Nicholas

• Sanson Carrasco

• Cide Hamete Benengeli

• Cervantes

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Characters (for our purposes)

• Alonso Quixada/Don Quixote

• Sancho Panza

• Aldonza Lorenzo/Dulcinea del Toboso

• curate/Pedro Perez

• barber/Nicholas

• Sanson Carrasco

• Cide Hamete Benengeli

• Cervantes

• Rozinante

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Characters (for our purposes)

• Alonso Quixada/Don Quixote

• Sancho Panza

• Aldonza Lorenzo/Dulcinea del Toboso

• curate/Pedro Perez

• barber/Nicholas

• Sanson Carrasco

• Cide Hamete Benengeli

• Cervantes

• Rozinante

• Dapple

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Setting

• various Spanish towns

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Setting

• various Spanish towns

Thursday, December 8, 2011

POV

• Third person omniscient (narrative)

• First person (literary discussions)

Thursday, December 8, 2011

POV

• Third person omniscient (narrative)

• First person (literary discussions)

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Plot

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Plot• Don Quixote decides to become a knight-

errant and sets out for exploits

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Plot• Don Quixote decides to become a knight-

errant and sets out for exploits

• Don Quixote encounters various adventures

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Plot• Don Quixote decides to become a knight-

errant and sets out for exploits

• Don Quixote encounters various adventures

• Don Quixote, vanquished in battle, is compelled to go home

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Plot• Don Quixote decides to become a knight-

errant and sets out for exploits

• Don Quixote encounters various adventures

• Don Quixote, vanquished in battle, is compelled to go home

• Don Quixote is sane again, renouncing knight-errantry, and decides to become a shepherd

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Plot• Don Quixote decides to become a knight-

errant and sets out for exploits

• Don Quixote encounters various adventures

• Don Quixote, vanquished in battle, is compelled to go home

• Don Quixote is sane again, renouncing knight-errantry, and decides to become a shepherd

• Don Quixote pines away and dies

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Plot• Don Quixote decides to become a knight-

errant and sets out for exploits

• Don Quixote encounters various adventures

• Don Quixote, vanquished in battle, is compelled to go home

• Don Quixote is sane again, renouncing knight-errantry, and decides to become a shepherd

• Don Quixote pines away and dies

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration

• anachro-nistic systems of morality

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration

• anachro-nistic systems of morality

• class & worth

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration

• anachro-nistic systems of morality

• class & worth

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration

• anachro-nistic systems of morality

• class & worth

• honor

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration

• anachro-nistic systems of morality

• class & worth

• honor

• romance

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration

• anachro-nistic systems of morality

• class & worth

• honor

• romance

• literature

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration

• anachro-nistic systems of morality

• class & worth

• honor

• romance

• literature

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration

• anachro-nistic systems of morality

• class & worth

• honor

• romance

• literature

• books, ma-nuscripts

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration

• anachro-nistic systems of morality

• class & worth

• honor

• romance

• literature

• books, ma-nuscripts

• horses

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration

• anachro-nistic systems of morality

• class & worth

• honor

• romance

• literature

• books, ma-nuscripts

• horses

• inns

Thursday, December 8, 2011

themes, motifs, symbols• perspective

& narration

• anachro-nistic systems of morality

• class & worth

• honor

• romance

• literature

• books, ma-nuscripts

• horses

• inns

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Thursday, December 8, 2011