es "'thirty
monstrous giants... with... long arms... the length of two leagues.'"
such is the demented mind of Don Quixote. He went down into a
legendary pit to behold its wonders. Once inside, he convinced himself
he saw a transparent castle and that the people there were kept alive
hundreds of years by Merlin's magic when he seemed to only dream it.
Another way Cervantes uses point-of-view to let the reader know
that Quixote has little grasp of reality. I will refer back to the windmills
because that is the clearest example: Sancho tried to tell Quixote
that the giants were only windmills, but he didn't listen and Sancho
couldn't fathom that his master was mad, so he shuts the incident out
of his mind, displaying some of the madness of Don Quixote in our
supposedly sane squire. When Quixote does something unreasonable,
Sancho despises the fact that his master might be mad and accepts
some of the lunacy to make his job easier. When Quixote starts to die
and loses the madness, Sancho perspective changes and regards
Quixote more with pity than with his former respect.
The Adventures of Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes is a long piece
that will give you a different perspective on madness and the curing
of it. I would recommend this book to someone who relishes long
descriptions and speeches full of double-talk. This is not a work of
literature for those who like to read a book quickly for I can't see
someone just skimming through Don Quixote. To put it bluntly, this
book wasn't worth the t...