s excerpt dealt with Don Quixotes corporeal death and that's when he found reason. To this character madness was a life. His insanity was the life he found in the death of madness. According to Cervantes, "death could not triumph over life by his demise."(32) It was this insanity that could transcend all boundaries.
             A contrast is made between madness in the Renaissance and in the present day, where it is located and isolated within certain medical and psychiatric disciplines, and marginalized within the world. So what is the definition of madness that we keep? A combination between the madness of death and unreason or the madness as a disease, charted and labeled...one or the other? He ends the chapter with the sentence "new requirements are being generated: A hundred and a hundred times have I taken up my lantern, seeking at high noon..." I think that he wants us to simply consider the role of madness in society. This sentence tells me that people are always reevaluating the idea of madness; so don't always take the most contemporary definition, always be in analysis. Like one of my history teachers used to tell me, "you have to hold your understanding of things like you hold a fish. Try to grasp it too
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