The Don

[Poldy]

Here is a critical proposition for you:<br><br>I saw Don Quixote as the embodiment of the Christian ideals. He represents all of those people that are willing to live their lives for others. Throughout the novel he had been told that he was insane and fighting a losing battle. As a Christian however, he was doing all the things that are deemed noble. He kills people, however in Cervantes day if it was done in order to maintain a Christian ideal it was not reprehensible; that is not the case anymore, but that can simply be chalked up to 400 year difference in reading. <br><br>What would you think if I said that in the final hour, upon his deathbed, when he renounced his life’s work, he had actually lost his sanity? Is it a possibility that he was mentally intact through the entire book, but that finally his Christian principles left him, and he became a part of the secular world through his insanity? <br>