EL INGENIOSO

HIDALGO DON
QUIXOTE DE LA
MANCHA (AN
EXCERPT, CHAPTER
VIII
GROUP 1
WHO WROTE THE
NOVEL El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don
Quixote De La Mancha?
MIGUEL DE
CERVANTES
◦He was a Spanish writer
who is widely regarded as
the greatest writer in the
Spanish language and one
of the world’s pre-eminent
novelist.
MIGUEL DE
CERVANTES
◦His novel Don Quixote
has been translated into
over 140 languages and
dialects it is, after the
Bible, the most-translated
book in the world.
MIGUEL DE
CERVANTES
◦He died at the age of 68 (April
22, 1616) in Madrid, Spain
◦Don Quixote, a classic of
Western Literature is
sometimes considered both
the first modern novel and the
best work of fiction ever
MIGUEL DE
CERVANTES
◦Cervantes’ influence on the
Spanish language has been
so great that the language is
often called “la lengua de
Cervantes” (or “the
language of Cervantes”).
WHAT WAS HIS MOOD
WHEN WRITING El
Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De La
Mancha?
MOOD
◦As what we have seen in
this chapter the author’s
mood that he wanted to
here was the mood of
Chivalry and foolishness.
MOOD
◦Why Chivalry? Because at
that time the story was
produced it was medieval
times. And it is seen in the
story that Don Quixote is
influenced by stories and
poems about chivalry.
POINT OF
VIEW
POINT OF VIEW
◦Cervantes states that he wrote
Don Quixote in order to
undermine the influence of
those "vain and empty books of
chivalry" as well as to provide
some merry, original, and
sometimes prudent material for
his readers' entertainment.
CHARACTERS
DON QUIXOTE
◦He is a middle-aged
gentlemen from the region of
La Mancha in Central Spain. He
is heavily influenced by
stories/poems about chivalry
which lead to him believing
that he is a knight just like in
those stories.
ROCINANTE
◦Don Quixote’s horse.
SANCHO PANZA
◦ Don Quixote’s sidekick. He was judicious,
with popular wisdom, sensible at times,
fearful, peaceful, friendly, cheerful, good-
natured, illiterate, lazy and very stupid.
He liked to eat and drink a lot, he was a
glutton, a drunkard and very good friend
of Don Quixote. His vision of the world is
very real, raw, almost always resigned
and that does not occur to change the
world.
EL SABIO FRESTON
◦He is an imaginary
character Quixote
imagines as the thief of
his books and the one
who transformed the
windmills.
DULCINEA
◦ Or Aldonza Lorenzo, she is a sturdy
Spanish peasant girl and was renamed
Dulcinea by the crazed knight-errant
Don Quixote when he selects her to be
his lady. Don Quixote perceives
Dulcinea as a golden-haired highborn
young woman of incomparable
loveliness for whom he will perform
brave deeds as her paladin.
BISCAYAN LADY
◦The “high princess” that
was “being held captive”
according to Don Quixote.
She was being
accompanied by 2 friars
and 4-5 other men.
2 FRIARS
◦They are friars of St.
Benedict and are
accompanying the
Biscayan lady.
THE STORY’S HISTORY
◦El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de
la Mancha was produced during a
bitter chapter in Spanish history amidst
the religious tensions between the
Christians and the Muslims. The forced
conversion policy by the Spanish
Inquisition during the 1500’s was a
significant backdrop to the novel’s
theme.
SETTING OF El Ingenioso
Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha
THE ROAD TO PUERTO
LAPICE
FIELD OF WINDMILLS
THE MEDIEVAL ERA
VOCABULARY
◦Alforjas – a leather saddlebag
◦Bota – a traditional Spanish leather liquid
container
◦Chicory – a Mediterranean growing plant,
known for its edible leaves and roots
◦Dromedaries – a camel of Arabian descent,
with only one hump on his back
◦Belaboured – an elaborate argument or
SUMMARY OF El Ingenioso
Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha
◦They've come across 30 to 40 windmills, which Don
Quixote mistakes the windmills as a group of giants.
So he attacked the windmills that resulted to him
having wounds. Sancho told Don Quixote that it was
just a bunch of windmills. But Don Quixote told
Sancho that cannot see the fortune and that they are
really giants. They then ventured on down the road to
Puerto Lapice where according to Don Quixote that
the place will never fail to give them adventures.
Though despite all of that Don Quixote is grieving for
the lost of lance. Sancho agreed to Don Quixote and
told him that his worship shall fully obeyed in this
◦ Then came dinner time Sancho got himself a meal while
don Quixote did not even bother. Then they ventured off
to Puerto Lapice. Don Quixote granted it but in this
matter of aiding him against knights thou must put a
restraint upon thy natural impetuosity. Sancho promised
him that he will do so and will keep this precept as
carefully as Sunday. They appeared on the road two friars
of the order of St. Benedict while they were talking and
behind them came a coach attended by four or five
person on horseback and two muleteers on foot. In the
coach there was a Biscay lady on her way to Seville,
where her husband was about to take passage for the
Indies with an appointment of high honors.
◦The friars are going on the same road but not
in her company. That moment Don Quixote
perceived them that it’s going to be the most
famous adventure that has ever been seen. But
Sancho said that this will be worst than the
windmills. Don Quixote replied that on the
subject of adventures thou knowest little. What
he say is the truth, as thou shalt see presently.
He posted himself in the middle of the rode in
which the friars are coming and as soon as
thought they were near to hear what he will say,
 ◦He told them to release instantly the
highborn princess that they are carrying
off by force in the coach. The friars
wondered by the appearance of Don
Quixote and his words and they reply that
they are not devilish or unnatural, but two
brothers of St. Benedict following our road,
nor do we know whether or not there are
any captive princesses coming in the
coach.
THEME OF THE
STORY
 ◦The theme of the story is
Chivalry. It says that Don
Quixote is living his
compulsive fascination with
the medieval tales he has
read.
MORALS OF THE
STORY
 “IT’S OKAY TO BELIEVE AND
MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME
TRUE. BUT LEARN TO ACCEPT
THE TRUTH AND OPINIONS OF
OTHER PEOPLE. LISTENING TO
THEIR OPINIONS MAY LEAD US
TO THE RIGHT PATH OF OUR
LIVES”
THANK YOU FOR
LISTENING!!!