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* RevealingCoverup, parodied by the {{MoralGuardian}}s who become {{ThresholdGuardian}}s: In his first sally, Don Quixote. doesn’t find any [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons dragon]], [[RobeAndWizardHat enchanter ]]nor any DamselInDistress. He is very disappointed when he comes back to his house, where their family and two {{MoralGuardian}}s have made a BookBurning of his ChivalricRomance books. To avoid Don Quixote’s ire, the {{MoralGuardian}}s [[PityingPerversion advise the family to tell him, literally]], that AWizardDidIt. ''That excuse was the Don Quixote’s first contact with the MedievalEuropeanFantasy he so desperately wanted to live!'' If the MoralGuardians would have tell him the truth, he never would persevered in his madness.
* SarcasticDevotee: SanchoPanzaPanza deconstructs this trope, see DeadpanSnarker.
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* {{Flanderization}}: In the first part of the novel, Sancho Panza gives an HurricaneOfAphorisms only ''once''. In the second part, he gives it [[RunningGag continuosly]], and also [[LamarckWasRight his wife and his daughter]].
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* {{Flanderization}}: In the first part of the novel, Sancho Panza gives an HurricaneOfAphorisms only ''once''.''once'' (Chapter XXVII, part I). In the second part, he gives it [[RunningGag continuosly]], and also [[LamarckWasRight his wife and his daughter]].
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* DeadpanSnarker / SarcasticDevotee / ServileSnarkerDeconstructed by Sancho Panza: What happens in RealLife to the employee that cannot say anything about his master without being sarcastic? Why, Sancho is beaten by Don Quixote at chapters XX and XXV of Part I, and gives him a hurricane of insults at chapter XLVI. The problem is that a lot of people enjoys Sancho’s sarcasm (he is good at it) and so he feels compelled to say it, even when he is in perilous situations, like when he denied payment to a Innkeeper (Chapter XVII part I), [[TooDumbToLive and he mocked the entire people of the Braying Town or the highwaymen of Barcelona]] (Chapters XXVII and LX of the part II) The first give him a beating, the highwaymen almost kill him.
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* DeadpanSnarker / SarcasticDevotee / ServileSnarkerDeconstructed ServileSnarker: Deconstructed by Sancho Panza: What happens in RealLife to the employee that cannot say anything about his master without being sarcastic? Why, Sancho is beaten by Don Quixote at chapters XX and XXV of Part I, and gives him a hurricane of insults at chapter XLVI. The problem is that a lot of people enjoys Sancho’s sarcasm (he is good at it) and so he feels compelled to say it, even when he is in perilous situations, like when he denied payment to a Innkeeper (Chapter XVII part I), [[TooDumbToLive and he mocked the entire people of the Braying Town or the highwaymen of Barcelona]] (Chapters XXVII and LX of the part II) The first give him a beating, the highwaymen almost kill him.
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* DeadpanSnarker / SarcasticDevotee / ServileSnarkerDeconstructed by Sancho Panza: What happens in RealLife to the employee that cannot say anything about his master without being sarcastic? Why, Sancho is beaten by Don Quixote at chapters XX and XXV of Part I, and gives him a hurricane of insults at chapter XLVI. The problem is that a lot of people enjoys Sancho’s sarcasm (he is good at it) and so he feels compelled to say it, even when he is in perilous situations, like when he denied payment to a Innkeeper (Chapter XVII part I), [[TooDumbToLive and he mocked the entire people of the Braying Town or the highwaymen of Barcelona]] (Chapters XXVII and LX of the part II) The first give him a beating, the highwaymen almost kill him.
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* AntiquatedLinguistics/[[YeOldeButcheredEnglish El Viejo Masacrado Español]]: In the original Spanish book, at least, Don Quijote uses outdated forms of speech and pronunciation, like maintaining the initial 'f' in words like 'fermosa' (hermosa), in an attempt to emulate the outdated forms of speech used on chivalry novels.
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* AntiquatedLinguistics/[[YeOldeButcheredEnglish El Viejo Masacrado Español]]: Español Masacrado]]: In the original Spanish book, at least, Don Quijote uses outdated forms of speech and pronunciation, like maintaining the initial 'f' in words like 'fermosa' (hermosa), in an attempt to emulate the outdated forms of speech used on chivalry novels.
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* TheRocinante: or as it's more commonly known on these boards, TheAllegedSteed.
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* TheRocinante: or Or as it's more commonly known on these boards, TheAllegedSteed.
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These are the very first lines of ''Don Quixote'', full title ''The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha''( "El ingenioso Hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha" in the original Spanish). The novel was written by Spanish writer and satirist Miguel De Cervantes. Cervantes wrote the story in two parts, the first part published in 1605 and the second in 1615.
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These are the very first lines of ''Don Quixote'', full title ''The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha''( "El ingenioso Hidalgo don hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" in the original Spanish). The novel was written by Spanish writer and satirist Miguel De Cervantes. Cervantes wrote the story in two parts, the first part published in 1605 and the second in 1615.
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These are the very first lines of ''Don Quixote'', full title ''The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha''( "El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha" in the original Spanish). The novel was written by Spanish writer and satirist Miguel De Cervantes. Cervantes wrote the story in two parts, the first part published in 1605 and the second in 1615.
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These are the very first lines of ''Don Quixote'', full title ''The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha''( "El ingenioso hidalgo Hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha" in the original Spanish). The novel was written by Spanish writer and satirist Miguel De Cervantes. Cervantes wrote the story in two parts, the first part published in 1605 and the second in 1615.
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* HurricaneOfAphorisms: Sancho Panza does this, usually so poorly that it just makes him look stupider. Interestingly, in the First part of the novel he does it only once. In the second part, [[Flanderization he gives those almost always]].
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* HurricaneOfAphorisms: Sancho Panza does this, usually so poorly that it just makes him look stupider. Interestingly, in the First part of the novel he does it only once. In the second part, [[Flanderization [[{{Flanderization}} he gives those almost always]].
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* HurricaneOfAphorisms: Sancho Panza does this, usually so poorly that it just makes him look stupider.
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* HurricaneOfAphorisms: Sancho Panza does this, usually so poorly that it just makes him look stupider. Interestingly, in the First part of the novel he does it only once. In the second part, [[Flanderization he gives those almost always]].
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* UpToEleven: Every major female character on Part 1 tops the beauty of all preceding ladies of the Novel. Even when the previous most beautiful girls are present, everyone is amazed by the incomparable beauty of the newly introduced. It finally peaks with Leandra, whose beauty was famous even in the halls of the royalty of distant cities. It seems it "overflows" in Part II, where the person Sancho chooses to be the new Dulcinea is described as the ugliest woman you can imagine. How? AWizardDidIt! and the plot becomes to try to disenchant her.
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* UpToEleven: Every major female character on Part 1 tops the beauty of all preceding ladies of the Novel. Even when the previous most beautiful girls are present, everyone is amazed by the incomparable beauty of the newly introduced.introduced, challenging the reader to imagine them increasingly better good looking. It finally peaks with Leandra, whose beauty was famous even in the halls of the royalty of distant cities. It seems it "overflows" in Part II, where the person Sancho chooses to be the new Dulcinea is described as the ugliest woman you can imagine. How? AWizardDidIt! and the plot becomes to try to disenchant her.
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* UpToEleven: Every major female character on Part 1 tops the beauty of all preceding ladies of the Novel. Even when the previous most beautiful girls are present, everyone is amazed by the incomparable beauty of the newly introduced. It finally peaks with Leandra, whose beauty was famous even in the halls of the royalty of distant cities. It seems it "overflows" in Part II, where the person Sancho chooses to be the new Dulcinea is described as the ugliest woman you can imagine. How? AWizardDidIt! and the plot becomes to try to disenchant her.
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*** The name of Sancho’s wife changes at the same page in Part I Chapter 7 (''Juana Gutiérrez'' and ''Mari Gutiérrez''), and the same at Part II Chapter V (''Teresa Panza'' and ''Teresa Cascajo'') and in Part II Chapter L, ''Teresa Panza'').
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*** The name of Sancho’s wife changes at the same page in Part I Chapter 7 (''Juana Gutiérrez'' and ''Mari Gutiérrez''), and the same in Part I Chapter LII (''Juana Panza''), changes again at Part II Chapter V (''Teresa Panza'' and ''Teresa Cascajo'') and in Part II Chapter L, ''Teresa L (''Teresa Panza'').
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Accuracy: Don Quixote thinks Sancho learned Latin in the few days he hasn\'t seen him, as if governors learned Latin magically.
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** Another example is lampshaded in Part II, chapter LI. Sancho has been made [[{{MassiveMultiplayerScam}} governor of the "Island of Barataria]]". In the seventeen century, it was expected that the people who were part of the government and the aristocracy were well educated, and this education included Latin. Don Quixote never uses Latin words in his sentences with Sancho because he is not interested in impress him with his superior knowledge, but he expects that Sancho will learn Latin now that he is a governor.
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** Another example is lampshaded in Part II, chapter LI. Sancho has been made [[{{MassiveMultiplayerScam}} governor of the "Island of Barataria]]". In the seventeen century, it was expected that the people who were part of the government and the aristocracy were well educated, and this education included Latin. Don Quixote never uses Latin words in his sentences with Sancho because he is not interested in impress him with his superior knowledge, but he expects that Sancho will learn Latin now that he Sancho is a governor.governor he has learned Latin.
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** Really toned down in the second part, so it appears that the Spanish language was modernized in 10 years, or for the people missing the joke (because they don't know if words like 'fermosa' were used back in the 1600s) thinking it's a more up to date transcription.
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* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: This law is invoked by the Innkeeper when he and Don Quixote discuss at Part I Chapter III the need for money being a KnightErrant who is WalkingTheEarth, and helps to deconstruct those tropes in the book.
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* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: This law is invoked by the Innkeeper when he and Don Quixote discuss at Part I Chapter III the need for money being a KnightErrant who is WalkingTheEarth, (Don Quixote doesn't have any money because he never has read about a KnightErrant paying for anything) and helps to deconstruct those tropes in the book. book.
--> On this point the landlord told him he was mistaken; for, though not recorded in the histories, because in the author's opinion there was no need to mention anything so obvious and necessary as money and clean shirts, [[FridgeLogic it was not to be supposed therefore that they did not carry them,]]
--> On this point the landlord told him he was mistaken; for, though not recorded in the histories, because in the author's opinion there was no need to mention anything so obvious and necessary as money and clean shirts, [[FridgeLogic it was not to be supposed therefore that they did not carry them,]]
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* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: This law is invoked by the Innkeeper when he and Don Quixote discuss at Part I Chapter III the need for money being a KnightErrant who is WalkingTheEarth, and helps to deconstruct those tropes in the book.
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** Better examples are the unnamed ecclesiastic from chapter XXXI and the unnamed Castilian for chapter LXII, both from part II. They are the only ones who publicly recognize that Don Quixote is a crazy fool, and lampshade that everyone who makes jokes on him is also a crazy fool too.
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* {{Knighting}}: Parodied at Part I Chapter III when Don Quixote insists that [[ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta an innkeeper (who he thinks is a castellan)]] knight him after he has watched his armor in the castle chapel -- that is, in the stable of the inn. This shows that DonQuixote could be mad, but [[GenreSavvy he knows exactly how the ceremony must be]].
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* PityingPerversion: The Barber and the Curate, two MoralGuardians, and later LoonyFan Sanson Carrásco, whose sincere desire to help that poor fool, Don Quixote and cure his madness is sabotaged by this attitude, rendering all of them into ThresholdGuardians. ([[NotSoDifferent Also, all three do things to help him that could be easily described as "crazy"]])
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* PityingPerversion: The Barber and the Curate, two MoralGuardians, and later LoonyFan Sanson Carrásco, whose sincere desire to help that poor fool, Don Quixote and cure his madness is sabotaged by this attitude, rendering all of them into ThresholdGuardians. ([[NotSoDifferent Also, all three do things to help him that could be easily described as "crazy"]]) "crazy"]])
* ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta: At Part I Chapter II, Don Quixote meets a rascally innkeeper who he thinks he is a Castellan (a castle warden) and asks him for {{Knighting}}. Ironically, in RealLife, to be knighted as a joke would have disabled Don Quixote to become a real Knight by the rules of the ''Siete Partidas of Alphonso X the Wise''.
* ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta: At Part I Chapter II, Don Quixote meets a rascally innkeeper who he thinks he is a Castellan (a castle warden) and asks him for {{Knighting}}. Ironically, in RealLife, to be knighted as a joke would have disabled Don Quixote to become a real Knight by the rules of the ''Siete Partidas of Alphonso X the Wise''.
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--> ''...is that he goes wrong and departs from the truth in the most important part of the history, for here he says that my squire Sancho Panza's wife is called Mari Gutierrez, when she is called nothing of the sort, but Teresa Panza; and when a man errs on such an important point as this there is good reason to fear that he is in error on every other point in the history."
"A nice sort of historian, indeed!" exclaimed Sancho at this; "he must know a deal about our affairs when he calls my wife Teresa Panza, Mari Gutierrez; take the book again, senor, and see if I am in it and if he has changed my name."''
"A nice sort of historian, indeed!" exclaimed Sancho at this; "he must know a deal about our affairs when he calls my wife Teresa Panza, Mari Gutierrez; take the book again, senor, and see if I am in it and if he has changed my name."''
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--> ''...is that he goes wrong and departs from the truth in the most important part of the history, for here he says that my squire Sancho Panza's wife is called Mari Gutierrez, when she is called nothing of the sort, but Teresa Panza; and when a man errs on such an important point as this there is good reason to fear that he is in error on every other point in the history."
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--> '' "A nice sort of historian, indeed!" exclaimed Sancho at this; "he must know a deal about our affairs when he calls my wife Teresa Panza, Mari Gutierrez; take the book again, senor, and see if I am in it and if he has changed my name."''
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* HypocriticalHumor: When Don Quixote reads some pages of the Second Part of 'Don Quixote of La Mancha, he claims there are obvious errors from the author, the most important is that he errs on the name of Sancho’s wife (see SeriesContinuityError to understand why this is hypocritical).
--> ''...is that he goes wrong and departs from the truth in the most important part of the history, for here he says that my squire Sancho Panza's wife is called Mari Gutierrez, when she is called nothing of the sort, but Teresa Panza; and when a man errs on such an important point as this there is good reason to fear that he is in error on every other point in the history."
"A nice sort of historian, indeed!" exclaimed Sancho at this; "he must know a deal about our affairs when he calls my wife Teresa Panza, Mari Gutierrez; take the book again, senor, and see if I am in it and if he has changed my name."''
--> ''...is that he goes wrong and departs from the truth in the most important part of the history, for here he says that my squire Sancho Panza's wife is called Mari Gutierrez, when she is called nothing of the sort, but Teresa Panza; and when a man errs on such an important point as this there is good reason to fear that he is in error on every other point in the history."
"A nice sort of historian, indeed!" exclaimed Sancho at this; "he must know a deal about our affairs when he calls my wife Teresa Panza, Mari Gutierrez; take the book again, senor, and see if I am in it and if he has changed my name."''
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*** [[{{ChuckCunninghamSyndrome}} The lad who helps them with the field and the marketplace]].
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*** Sancho talks about using a sword at Part I Chapter XV and the Barber mentions Sancho has a sword in his hips at Part I Chapter XLVI, but at Part II Chapter XIV, Sancho denies ever having a sword.
*** The name of Sancho’s wife changes at the same page in Part I Chapter 7 (''Juana Gutiérrez'' and ''Mari Gutiérrez''), and the same at Part II Chapter V (''Teresa Panza'' and ''Teresa Cascajo'') and in Part II Chapter L, ''Teresa Panza'').
*** At the first part, DonQuixote knows that Dulcinea del Toboso is a ShadowArchetype based on Aldonza Lorenzo. In the second part, he claims he never has seen her.
*** [[{{ChuckCunninghamSyndrome}} The lad who helps them with the field and the marketplace]].
*** Sancho talks about using a sword at Part I Chapter XV and the Barber mentions Sancho has a sword in his hips at Part I Chapter XLVI, but at Part II Chapter XIV, Sancho denies ever having a sword.
*** The name of Sancho’s wife changes at the same page in Part I Chapter 7 (''Juana Gutiérrez'' and ''Mari Gutiérrez''), and the same at Part II Chapter V (''Teresa Panza'' and ''Teresa Cascajo'') and in Part II Chapter L, ''Teresa Panza'').
*** At the first part, DonQuixote knows that Dulcinea del Toboso is a ShadowArchetype based on Aldonza Lorenzo. In the second part, he claims he never has seen her.
*** [[{{ChuckCunninghamSyndrome}} The lad who helps them with the field and the marketplace]].
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* HealingPotion: {{Parodied}}. Don Quixote claims to have the recipe for an elixir that heals all wounds, but [[LordErrorProne beng who he is]], it instead induces severe pain and vomiting.
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* CombatPragmatist: [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} Bernardo del Carpio]] is one of [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quixano favorite knights, because he found the way to defeat [[{{NighInvulnerable}} Roland]] [[{{AWizardDidIt}} the enchanted]]: instead of attacking him with a sword, Bernardo just strangle him.
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* CombatPragmatist: [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} Bernardo del Carpio]] Carpio is one of [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quixano favorite knights, because he found the way to defeat [[{{NighInvulnerable}} Roland]] [[{{AWizardDidIt}} the enchanted]]: instead of attacking him with a sword, Bernardo just strangle him.
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*** Chapter I, part I: [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quijano has read [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} ''The tale of Don Belianis of Greece:'' ]] and notes that the author has not finished that adventure, so he planned to write a continuation of it, and it would have been a great continuation if not because he abandoned that idea to become Don Quixote (this is not an InformedAbility: In Part I, Chapter II, Don Quixote begins the story of his own heroic exploits, that will undoubtedly write a sage in the future, and in Part I, Chapter XXI, Don Quixote narrates Sancho a perfect summary of the plot and all the typical situations of a chivalry book):
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*** Chapter I, part I: [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quijano has read [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} ''The tale of Don Belianis of Greece:'' ]] and notes that the author has not finished that adventure, so he planned to write a continuation of it, and it would have been a great continuation if not because he abandoned that idea to become Don Quixote (this is not an InformedAbility: In Part I, Chapter II, Don Quixote begins the story of his own heroic exploits, that will undoubtedly write a sage in the future, and in Part I, Chapter XXI, Don Quixote narrates Sancho a perfect summary of the plot and all the typical situations of a chivalry book):
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*** in Part I, Chapter I: [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} Bernardo del Carpio]] is one of Alonso Quixano's favorite knights, because he found the way to defeat [[{{NighInvulnerable}} Roland]] [[{{AWizardDidIt}} the enchanted]]: instead of attacking him with a sword, [[{{CombatPragmatist}} Bernardo simply strangled Roland]]… Cool, isn’t it? [[{{TheOldestOnesInTheBook}} But not as cool as the first time this tale was told]], [[{{UnreliableNarrator}} as our narrator]] [[{{LampshadeHanging}} remind us]],
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*** in In Part I, Chapter I: [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} Bernardo del Carpio]] Carpio is one of Alonso Quixano's favorite knights, because he found the way to defeat [[{{NighInvulnerable}} Roland]] [[{{AWizardDidIt}} the enchanted]]: instead of attacking him with a sword, [[{{CombatPragmatist}} Bernardo simply strangled Roland]]… Cool, isn’t it? [[{{TheOldestOnesInTheBook}} But not as cool as the first time this tale was told]], [[{{UnreliableNarrator}} as our narrator]] [[{{LampshadeHanging}} remind us]],
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*** Chapter I, part I: [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quijano has some continuity questions about [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} ''The tale of Don Belianis of Greece:'' ]]
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* ShoutOut: Hundreds upon hundreds of them, although many would be unrecognizable to the modern reader because of WeirdAlEffect.
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** An attack to the [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} (then) famous ]] chivalry book's author Feliciano de Silva's composition, ''"[[{{SarcasmMode}} for their lucidity of style and complicated conceits were as pearls in his sight]]"'', Feliciano's style was an example of [[{{PurpleProse}} how to sacrifice Utility in the altar of Eloquence ]], [[{{DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment}} writing sentence after sentence of redundant synonyms once and again]], [[{{MindScrew}} making it so confuse that you cannot even try to comprehend it]].
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** An attack to the [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} (then) famous ]] chivalry book's author Feliciano de Silva's composition, ''"[[{{SarcasmMode}} for their lucidity of style and complicated conceits were as pearls in his sight]]"'', Feliciano's style was an example of [[{{PurpleProse}} how to sacrifice Utility in the altar of Eloquence ]], [[{{DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment}} writing sentence after sentence of redundant synonyms once and again]], [[{{MindScrew}} making it so confuse that you cannot even try to comprehend it]].
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* BoredWithInsanity: In the last chapter of DonQuixote, a poster boy for {{Fandumb}} of ChivalricRomance, his FanDisillusionment is so great that he gets BoredWithInsanity and comes back to his senses.
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* BoredWithInsanity: In the last chapter of DonQuixote, Literature/DonQuixote, a poster boy for {{Fandumb}} of ChivalricRomance, his FanDisillusionment is so great that he gets BoredWithInsanity and comes back to his senses.
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* ConceptsAreCheap: Deconstructed InUniverse: In the first part of the novel, DonQuixote wants to be an KnightErrant ForGreatJustice. In reality, he is TheHedonist and all his efforts are really guided to live his dreams, but he doesn't accept it because he is an {{Hypocrite}}. In the second part of the novel, his motivation changes ForHappiness. But this time DonQuixote is an honest man that must admit at the end of the novel that [[ShaggyDogStory his efforts didn’t help anyone]] and her ChivalricRomance [[FanDisillusionment dreams were shallow]].
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* ConceptsAreCheap: Deconstructed InUniverse: In the first part of the novel, DonQuixote Don Quixote wants to be an KnightErrant ForGreatJustice. In reality, he is TheHedonist and all his efforts are really guided to live his dreams, but he doesn't accept it because he is an {{Hypocrite}}. In the second part of the novel, his motivation changes ForHappiness. But this time DonQuixote Don Quixote is an honest man that must admit at the end of the novel that [[ShaggyDogStory his efforts didn’t help anyone]] and her ChivalricRomance [[FanDisillusionment dreams were shallow]].
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* DeaderThanDisco: InUniverse: At Part II Chapter XVI, DonQuixote claims that the ChivalricRomance (and it's RealLife counterpart, [[KnightErrant knight-errantry]] is this trope and he is merely trying to bring it to life again.
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* DeaderThanDisco: InUniverse: At Part II Chapter XVI, DonQuixote Don Quixote claims that the ChivalricRomance (and it's RealLife counterpart, [[KnightErrant knight-errantry]] is this trope and he is merely trying to bring it to life again.
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* FanDisillusionment: After two novels being a literal AscendedFanboy UpToEleven of the ChivalricRomance, DonQuixote must accept in the last chapter that the ClicheStorm that he read as the adventures of a KnightErrant is not [[DeconstructedTrope as joyous as he thought it would be]]:
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* FanDisillusionment: After two novels being a literal AscendedFanboy UpToEleven of the ChivalricRomance, DonQuixote Don Quixote must accept in the last chapter that the ClicheStorm that he read as the adventures of a KnightErrant is not [[DeconstructedTrope as joyous as he thought it would be]]:
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* InsanityDefense: The reason why DonQuixote is never killed (but often beaten) by the poor InnocentBystander of the day.
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* LoonyFan: Sanson Carrásco presents himself as one fan of DonQuixote and discuss with him and Sancho the {{SeriesContinuityError}}s, and [[PityingPerversion wants to help that poor, mad fool]] to regain sanity. HilarityEnsues.
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* LoonyFan: Sanson Carrásco presents himself as one fan of DonQuixote Don Quixote and discuss with him and Sancho the {{SeriesContinuityError}}s, and [[PityingPerversion wants to help that poor, mad fool]] to regain sanity. HilarityEnsues.
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* MayDecemberRomance: DonQuixote is around 50; Dulcinea, being an unmarried peasant girl, is probably less than 20. Not that she knows anything about her pretender's interest, though.
** Deconstructed with Altisidora and DonQuixote in the second part: Altisidora, a 14 year old maiden at the Duke’s palace, pretends to be in love with DonQuixote. He stoically supports her [[ClingyJealousGirl teasing and mean pranks]] because he believes [[SmittenTeenageGirl she’s in love with him]], but he never attempts anything because he wants to be loyal to Dulcinea and is very happy when he abandons her and the palace. Being an honest man, he confesses to Sancho that Altisidora’s felings caused him ''more confusion than pity'', showing us how awkward and foolish would be this kind of relationship in reality.
** Deconstructed with Altisidora and DonQuixote in the second part: Altisidora, a 14 year old maiden at the Duke’s palace, pretends to be in love with DonQuixote. He stoically supports her [[ClingyJealousGirl teasing and mean pranks]] because he believes [[SmittenTeenageGirl she’s in love with him]], but he never attempts anything because he wants to be loyal to Dulcinea and is very happy when he abandons her and the palace. Being an honest man, he confesses to Sancho that Altisidora’s felings caused him ''more confusion than pity'', showing us how awkward and foolish would be this kind of relationship in reality.
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* MayDecemberRomance: DonQuixote Don Quixote is around 50; Dulcinea, being an unmarried peasant girl, is probably less than 20. Not that she knows anything about her pretender's interest, though.
** Deconstructed with Altisidora andDonQuixote Don Quixote in the second part: Altisidora, a 14 year old maiden at the Duke’s palace, pretends to be in love with DonQuixote.Don Quixote. He stoically supports her [[ClingyJealousGirl teasing and mean pranks]] because he believes [[SmittenTeenageGirl she’s in love with him]], but he never attempts anything because he wants to be loyal to Dulcinea and is very happy when he abandons her and the palace. Being an honest man, he confesses to Sancho that Altisidora’s felings caused him ''more confusion than pity'', showing us how awkward and foolish would be this kind of relationship in reality.
** Deconstructed with Altisidora and
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Don Quixote travels to Barcelona, a province of the [[TheEmpire Spanish Empire]] facing a CivilWar. [[ButtMonkey Sancho get lost at night in a forest whose trees are filled with feet wearing shoes and stocking]]. [[CasualDangerDialog DonQuixote calmly explains that]] [[CrushingThePopulace the authorities hang outlaws by twenties and thirties when they catch them]].
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Don Quixote travels to Barcelona, a province of the [[TheEmpire Spanish Empire]] facing a CivilWar. [[ButtMonkey Sancho get lost at night in a forest whose trees are filled with feet wearing shoes and stocking]]. [[CasualDangerDialog DonQuixote Don Quixote calmly explains that]] [[CrushingThePopulace the authorities hang outlaws by twenties and thirties when they catch them]].
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* PityingPerversion: The Barber and the Curate, two MoralGuardians, and later LoonyFan Sanson Carrásco, whose sincere desire to help that poor fool, DonQuixote and cure his madness is sabotaged by this attitude, rendering all of them into ThresholdGuardians. ([[NotSoDifferent Also, all three do things to help him that could be easily described as "crazy"]])
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** DonQuixote's real name, Alonso Quijano, is a pun on "quijada" (jaw), as he's also a rather skinny guy.
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* ShallowLoveInterest: Aldonza Lorenzo a.k.a Dulcinea Del Toboso, who isn't even aware of her status as love interest of DonQuixote.
** This trope is parodied and exaggerated with Dulcinea Del Toboso, a lover that DonQuixote ''imagined'' from a peasant girl called Aldonza Lorenzo. [[ShadowArchetype She represents for him all that is lovable about a woman without any of the defects of a real person]], and [[TheDulcineaEffect he only imagined her so he can undertake adventures in her name]]. She becomes the [[ExaggeratedTrope illogical extreme of this trope]], because nobody is more shallow than a ShadowArchetype.
** This trope is parodied and exaggerated with Dulcinea Del Toboso, a lover that DonQuixote ''imagined'' from a peasant girl called Aldonza Lorenzo. [[ShadowArchetype She represents for him all that is lovable about a woman without any of the defects of a real person]], and [[TheDulcineaEffect he only imagined her so he can undertake adventures in her name]]. She becomes the [[ExaggeratedTrope illogical extreme of this trope]], because nobody is more shallow than a ShadowArchetype.
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* ShallowLoveInterest: Aldonza Lorenzo a.k.a Dulcinea Del Toboso, who isn't even aware of her status as love interest of DonQuixote.
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** This trope is parodied and exaggerated with Dulcinea Del Toboso, a lover thatDonQuixote Don Quixote ''imagined'' from a peasant girl called Aldonza Lorenzo. [[ShadowArchetype She represents for him all that is lovable about a woman without any of the defects of a real person]], and [[TheDulcineaEffect he only imagined her so he can undertake adventures in her name]]. She becomes the [[ExaggeratedTrope illogical extreme of this trope]], because nobody is more shallow than a ShadowArchetype.
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** This trope is severely deconstructed: In the first part, DonQuixote cares more for fulfilling his fantasies than for anyone else. He confides that the farmer Haduldo will stop floggin the boy Andrés and that the Galley slaves he liberates will be grateful enough to make him a favor. (They´re not). His actions make him the original LordErrorProne. In the second part is even worse: he really acts ForHappiness and after some MassiveMultiplayerScam aventures that convince him he is a real KnightErrant he must face the sad fact that he has not helped anyone and therefore, all those ChivalricRomance tropes were BlatantLies. This is so heartbreaking that he becomes BoredWithInsanity and dies. Being called ''"Quixotic"'' is not always a good thing.
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** This trope is severely deconstructed: In the first part, DonQuixote Don Quixote cares more for fulfilling his fantasies than for anyone else. He confides that the farmer Haduldo will stop floggin the boy Andrés and that the Galley slaves he liberates will be grateful enough to make him a favor. (They´re not). His actions make him the original LordErrorProne. In the second part is even worse: he really acts ForHappiness and after some MassiveMultiplayerScam aventures that convince him he is a real KnightErrant he must face the sad fact that he has not helped anyone and therefore, all those ChivalricRomance tropes were BlatantLies. This is so heartbreaking that he becomes BoredWithInsanity and dies. Being called ''"Quixotic"'' is not always a good thing.
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* AntiquatedLinguistics/[[YeOldeButcheredEnglish Ye Olde Butchered Spanishe]]: In the original Spanish book, at least, Don Quijote uses outdated forms of speech and pronunciation, like maintaining the initial 'f' in words like 'fermosa' (hermosa), in an attempt to emulate the outdated forms of speech used on chivalry novels.
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* FairForItsDay: Several of the attitudes expressed by the characters are enough to make modern sensibilities cringe. Sancho, a man usually associated with being a loyal and amiable sort actually considers taking up selling people as slaves and turning 'black into gold'.
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The first part of the novel was [[OlderThanSteam published in 1605]], when the books of chivalry were pushing DeaderThanDisco and Don Quixote's [[{{AffectionateParody}} dreams of reviving chivalry ways]] were really a strange, misbegotten idea. The novel became a big success among the public of the time (although that success was nothing unheard of at the time with other titles, and [[{{ItsPopularNowItSucks}} certainly that was not the case]] [[{{SmallNameBigEgo}} with the contemporary Spanish critics)]], and was reprinted several times in the next decade and even translated into French and English. But most notable was the change in Spanish popular culture. [[{{PopCulturalOsmosis}} A few months after printing, virtually all of Spain knew about Don Quixote’s exploits:]] [[{{MemeticMutation}} Memetic Mutations]] arose, [[{{CyclicTrope}} those ridiculous books of chivalry became popular again]], and even apocryphal "[[FanFiction continuations]]" appeared. Cervantes created a character to mock the FanDumb and the books of chivalry that perverted true heroism, only to find that, Don Quixote, [[{{ArtistDisillusionment}} thanks to his readers]], had achieved his goal: to change [[{{RealLife}} reality]].
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The first part of the novel was [[OlderThanSteam published in 1605]], when the books of chivalry were pushing DeaderThanDisco and Don Quixote's [[{{AffectionateParody}} dreams of reviving chivalry ways]] were really a strange, misbegotten idea. The novel became a big success among the public of the time (although that success was nothing unheard of at the time with other titles, and [[{{ItsPopularNowItSucks}} certainly that was not the case]] [[{{SmallNameBigEgo}} with the contemporary Spanish critics)]], and was reprinted several times in the next decade and even translated into French and English. But most notable was the change in Spanish popular culture. [[{{PopCulturalOsmosis}} A few months after printing, virtually all of Spain knew about Don Quixote’s exploits:]] [[{{MemeticMutation}} Memetic Mutations]] arose, [[{{CyclicTrope}} those ridiculous books of chivalry became popular again]], and even apocryphal "[[FanFiction continuations]]" appeared. Cervantes created a character to mock the FanDumb and the books of chivalry that perverted true heroism, only to find that, that Don Quixote, [[{{ArtistDisillusionment}} thanks to his readers]], had achieved his goal: to change [[{{RealLife}} reality]].
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->''In a place of La Mancha, the name of which I don't want to recall, there lived not long ago one of those gentlemen with lance on the rack, old shield, worn-out horse, and racing greyhound.''
These are the very first lines of ''Don Quixote'', full title ''The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha''( "El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha" in the original Spanish). The novel was written by Spanish writer and satirist Miguel De Cervantes. Cervantes wrote the story in two parts, the first part published in 1605 and the second in 1615.
The story is about an old [[{{BlueBlood}} ''hidalgo'']] named Alonso Quijano, [[{{YouWatchTooMuchX}} who was so into]] [[ChivalricRomance chivalric novels]] that he became insane and [[AscendedFanboy decided that he was a vagrant knight]]. [[{{MeaningfulRename}} Quijano renames himself as "Don Quixote de La Mancha"]] and decides to [[{{GlorySeeker}} win eternal fame]] through [[KnightInShiningArmor the besting of wrongdoers and general upholding of the Chivalric Code]]. Unfortunately for a lot of innocent people, his delusions [[{{LordErrorProne}} make him pick fights]] with [[strike:other knights]] innocent bystanders, some of whom do not fight back because Don Quixote is obviously [[strike:superior in his fighting skills]] crazy. Of course, there are strangers who are not that sympathetic, and after one of those [[{{HilarityEnsues}} delivers a brutal beating to Don Quixote]], a neighbor from his village meets the wounded Don Quixote and takes him home, where his friends and family burn out the accursed [[ChivalricRomance books of chivalry]] to try to cure him, but he soon returns to his [[strike:heroic quest]] delusion and journey. This time he manages to [[strike:inspire]] convince a simple farm-man, [[{{Foil}} Sancho Panza]], to become his squire and sidekick under the [[{{StandardHeroReward}} promise of a governorship in the future]]. Then they live [[{{Troperiffic}} a lot of adventures]], including the famous one where [[WindmillCrusader Don Quixote attacks some windmills]] because they [[strike:are]] might be [[WindmillPolitical giants in disguise]]. At the end of the book, [[{{ThoseTwoGuys}} Don Quixote’s friends]] trick him [[{{WrongGenreSavvy}} by making him believe he is enchanted]] and take him back to his village.
Throughout the novel Don Quixote never, even for a moment, doubt that the fictional adventures that he has read were real and that he really is a knight errant. Not even the [[{{ThresholdGuardians}} petitions of his loved ones]], [[{{HumiliationConga}} the continuous ridicule of his peers ]] or [[{{YouCanBarelyStand}} the brutal beatings he suffers]] made him break his resolution: [[{{Determinator}} Don Quixote always continues trying to impose his quixotic (literally; he's the word's origin) beliefs on the world]].
The first part of the novel was [[OlderThanSteam published in 1605]], when the books of chivalry were pushing DeaderThanDisco and Don Quixote's [[{{AffectionateParody}} dreams of reviving chivalry ways]] were really a strange, misbegotten idea. The novel became a big success among the public of the time (although that success was nothing unheard of at the time with other titles, and [[{{ItsPopularNowItSucks}} certainly that was not the case]] [[{{SmallNameBigEgo}} with the contemporary Spanish critics)]], and was reprinted several times in the next decade and even translated into French and English. But most notable was the change in Spanish popular culture. [[{{PopCulturalOsmosis}} A few months after printing, virtually all of Spain knew about Don Quixote’s exploits:]] [[{{MemeticMutation}} Memetic Mutations]] arose, [[{{CyclicTrope}} those ridiculous books of chivalry became popular again]], and even apocryphal "[[FanFiction continuations]]" appeared. Cervantes created a character to mock the FanDumb and the books of chivalry that perverted true heroism, only to find that, Don Quixote, [[{{ArtistDisillusionment}} thanks to his readers]], had achieved his goal: to change [[{{RealLife}} reality]].
Cervantes, in [[CreatorBacklash an early attempt]] at killing a MisaimedFandom, decided to end the story and wrote a still hilarious second part with [[CerebusSyndrome a more serious tone]], taking advantage of the change operated by the first part of the book in RealLife, where Don Quixote has evolved from a LordErrorProne to a honest man whose noble attitude and his delusions makes him the ButtMonkey of a lot of people. Don Quixote has to confront his delusions (but only in the very last chapter), and the harshness of reality make him realize that [[strike:[[{{CompletelyMissingThePoint}} in reality there are no heroes]]]] [[FanDisillusionment his naïve dreams were shallow]], [[BoredWithInsanity and brings him back to sanity]] [[DeathByDespair before his death]]. To his chagrin, [[SpringtimeForHitler Book II is considered even more brilliant than Book I]].
It has been adapted to every medium, including a couple of animated adaptations (one of them with {{Funny Animal}}s) and even a [[TheMusical Musical]].
Very commonly cited, in literary criticism, as "the first modern novel" and is probably among the most influential books of all time (just take a look at the TheOtherWiki's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote#Influences_upon_literature_and_literary_theory list]]).
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!!TropeNamer for:
* TheDulcineaEffect
* TheRocinante: or as it's more commonly known on these boards, TheAllegedSteed.
* NoMereWindmill: An inversion of the famous windmill scene
* WindmillCrusader: With Don Quixote being the UrExample.
* WindmillPolitical: The UrExample, but in most other examples the windmills are not literal.
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!! Tropes found in ''Don Quixote'':
* AntiquatedLinguistics/[[YeOldeButcheredEnglish Ye Olde Butchered Spanishe]]: In the original Spanish book, at least, Don Quijote uses outdated forms of speech and pronunciation, like maintaining the initial 'f' in words like 'fermosa' (hermosa), in an attempt to emulate the outdated forms of speech used on chivalry novels.
** This shows up in some translations as a {{Woolseyism}}: Don Quixote simply uses more archaic vocabulary than everyone else around.
* AffectionateParody: Cervantes was a connoisseur of chivalry novels (evidenced by the famous scene where the priest and the barber go into a lengthy discussion of Don Quixote's library), and his parody of the genre isn't as vicious and destructive as commonly thought.
* AltumVidetur: This trope is lampshaded twice by Cervantes:
** In the Preface of the Author, Part I, [[{{TakeThat}} Cervantes attacks ]] [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} authors that want to impress their readers with his knowledge without the appropiate research]]. Cervantes denounces [[{{AltumVidetur}} to include sentences of Latin that seem to be profound ]] [[{{ShownTheirWork}} (and so impress his lectors)]], but [[{{ViewersAreMorons}} in reality, ]] [[{{SmallReferencePools}} those Latin sentences were very common and any author of his time could find them with very little effort]]. In a word, [[{{LampshadeHanging}} he ''' defines ''' this trope]] in the 17th century. And then, Cervantes proceeds to [[{{HypocriticalHumor}} include some sentences in Latin in both parts of Don Quixote]].
** Another example is lampshaded in Part II, chapter LI. Sancho has been made [[{{MassiveMultiplayerScam}} governor of the "Island of Barataria]]". In the seventeen century, it was expected that the people who were part of the government and the aristocracy were well educated, and this education included Latin. Don Quixote never uses Latin words in his sentences with Sancho because he is not interested in impress him with his superior knowledge, but he expects that Sancho will learn Latin now that he is a governor.
* AnimatedAdaptation: [[HannaBarbera "Don Coyote & Sancho Panda"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4tFzD13hmc An earlier example]] (1979), without [[TalkingAnimal Talking Animals]].
** And a ''hilarious'' anime adaptation, too: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TDP540GASY Zukkoke Knight Don de la Mancha]].
* {{Arcadia}}: Don Quixote considers becoming a shepherd instead of a knight at the end. {{Foreshadowed}} by the Golden Age speech he gives to the shepherds in the book's beginning; pastoral tropes in general are very important in the novel.
* AscendedFanboy: Quixote takes a more proactive approach than most.
* AuthorAvatar: Cervantes dedicates some chapters of the first part of the novel to ''“The story of the Captive Captain”'', Ruy Pérez de Viedma, a Spanish captain who was prisoner of the Moors. Curiously, this man, like the Priest, claims to know some guy called “de Saavedra”.
* AuthorFilibuster: Parodied and lampshaded. The critics have said that the chivalry books were plagued by a lot of lengthy discourses from different abstract themes, immobilizing the action and discouraging the reader. Cervantes lampshaded this when Don Quixote talks for nearly two pages in the [[{{AuthorFilibuster}} ''"Discourse on The Golden Age"'', ]] Part I, Chapter XI: ''"All this long harangue (which might very well have been spared)"'' and satirized it when in the [[{{AuthorFilibuster}} ''"Discourse on Arms and Letters"'', ]] Part I, Chapter XXXVIII, the action really never stops, because all the other characters eat their dinners while Don Quixote talked: ''"All this lengthy discourse Don Quixote delivered while the others supped, forgetting to raise a morsel to his lips, though Sancho more than once told him to eat his supper, as he would have time enough afterwards to say all he wanted."''
* AWizardDidIt: Quite literally. Just replace "Wizard" with "Enchanter." When the events of the story veer far enough away from Quixote's account in the style of Knights Errant, Quixote explicitly invokes this trope to explain the discrepancy.
* BadassSpaniard: Don Quixote aspires to be one, and actually does pull off some real badassery (e.g., his adventure with the lion).
* BeamMeUpScotty: Lampshaded: In the Preface of the Author, Part I, Cervantes’s friend mentions a quote in Latin that a lot of people attributed to Horace, but Cervantes's friend [[{{ShownTheirWork}} really has done the research]], so he mentions ''"or whoever said it"''.
** There are some cases of this trope in the Spanish pop culture, see some examples in the link.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Sancho Panza
* [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet]] DownerEnding: Don Quixote, after a string of treasons and especially cruel practical jokes, regains his sanity and negates chivalry just before his death, while his squire has ingrained the chivalry lifestyle so deeply that he practically cries for Don Quixote to come back to the adventure.
* BoredWithInsanity: In the last chapter of DonQuixote, a poster boy for {{Fandumb}} of ChivalricRomance, his FanDisillusionment is so great that he gets BoredWithInsanity and comes back to his senses.
--> ''"I was mad, now I am in my senses; I was Don Quixote of La Mancha, I am now, as I said, Alonso Quixano the Good"''
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Surprisingly, played straight and lampshaded, not because Don Quixote wants to be a Knight in Shining Armor (Don Quixote wanted to revive a past that really never was, a past with [[{{TheThemeParkVersion}} good and bad wizards, fierce giants, fabulous monsters, imaginary reigns, incredible dresses, poisonous snakes, terrible battles, incredible encounters, lovesick princess, funny dwarfs, squires made counts and a lot of outrageous adventures]]) but because he is an Hidalgo (noble). Alonso Quijano lives in the wrong century and is lampshaded in the famous [[{{AuthorFilibuster}} ''"Discourse on Arms and Letters"'', ]] Part I, Chapter 38. Cervante's genius let him realize that technological advances like the gunpowder and the artillery demanded the end of the cavalry and the initiation of new strategies and organizational forms in the armies, as well as a redefinition of the role of nobility in a society where individual courage and skill are useless, and the organization of nameless masses of soldiers (infantry) becomes important. With Don Quijote, Cervantes is saying that for him, and for all the [[{{BlueBlood}} nobility (rich or poor)]] they ''' were born in the wrong century ''' , and they must renovate or die.
* CanonImmigrant: In a way, Álvaro Tarfe may be one of the first examples, if not the first. He is a character from the non canon sequel written by Avellaneda, who appears at the end of the legitimate second part of the Quijote, the one written by Cervantes, talking to the ''real'' Don Quijote and Sancho.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Played perfectly straight: In the Chapter I, Part I, Cervantes mentions the people who lived in Don Quixote’s house: his niece, his housekeeper and a lad who helps them with the field and the marketplace… whom we’ll never see or hear of again. Obviously, Cervantes completely forgotten about this character, and didn't want to write him even in the Second Part of the novel, but in his defense, one of Don Quixote’s themes is about how silly it is to detect errors of continuity in a [[strike:literary work]] silly fictional tale.
* CliffHanger: parodied by the end of Part I, chapter 8: that chapter ends with a dramatic description of Don Quixote and [[strike:another knight]] a poor innocent bystander charging at each other... only to have the next chapter start with [[UnreliableNarrator the narrator]] telling us that he doesn't have [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis the page in the original manuscript that describes the fight]], and wasting three pages telling us how he could get the next part. The critics have said that the cliffhanger was a regular resource of the chivalry books.
* CloudCuckooLander: There is nothing else to call a man who attacks windmills.
* CombatPragmatist: [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} Bernardo del Carpio]] is one of [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quixano favorite knights, because he found the way to defeat [[{{NighInvulnerable}} Roland]] [[{{AWizardDidIt}} the enchanted]]: instead of attacking him with a sword, Bernardo just strangle him.
* ConceptsAreCheap: Deconstructed InUniverse: In the first part of the novel, DonQuixote wants to be an KnightErrant ForGreatJustice. In reality, he is TheHedonist and all his efforts are really guided to live his dreams, but he doesn't accept it because he is an {{Hypocrite}}. In the second part of the novel, his motivation changes ForHappiness. But this time DonQuixote is an honest man that must admit at the end of the novel that [[ShaggyDogStory his efforts didn’t help anyone]] and her ChivalricRomance [[FanDisillusionment dreams were shallow]].
* ContractualGenreBlindness: Sancho is very aware that the man he is following is pretty insane and often tells him so, but sometimes has to act according to his master's delusions.
* CrackIsCheaper: [[invoked]] [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quijano was a victim of this phenomenon. At chapter I Part I we learn that he has acquired a lot of chivalry books (almost three hundred), and if you think that the printing had been discovered in Europe only some years ago, it's a considerable feat. But alas! Then as now, his relatives and friends, who certainly think that this hobby is getting out of control, had no second thoughts to send a lot of his books to the bonfire, even if Don Quixote has spent a lot of money in those books:
-->''"and to such a pitch did his eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillage land to buy books of chivalry to read"''
** It should be noted that just having a few hundred books in the time in which the story was written would have been a ''huge'' expense. It's not like they had Barnes and Noble back then.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Although Don Quixote is [[CloudCuckooLander a loon]] and almost always beaten and humiliated, sometimes he shows that he's got some real balls and fighting chops (e.g., the lion episode).
* CrushingThePopulace: When Don Quixote travels to Barcelona, Sancho gets lost at night in a forest whose trees are filled with feet wearing shoes and stockings. Don Quixote calmly explains that the authorities hang outlaws by the twenties and thirties when they catch them.
* DamselInDistress: Deconstructed and PlayedForLaughs. Don Quixote believes that just about every lady he meets needs to be rescued from villains. Then, HilarityEnsues.
* {{Deconstruction}}.
* DaydreamBeliever: Quixote himself is the archetype of this. And he does not only believe in chivalry books, in Part II, Chapter LXXI, he declares that if he had lived in [[{{Homer}} Homeric times]], he could have saved Troy and Carthage by slaying Paris.
* DanBrowned: This trope is lampshaded by Cervantes... and then played for laughs. In the Preface of the Autor, Part I, Cervantes denounces [[{{DanBrowned}} authors who claim that the verses they use in the preface of the book commending that work (a common literary practice at the time) were made by personages identified as famous poets, when with a little research we easily discover they were not]], or worse yet, [[{{EpicFail}} they were illiterate]]. In a word, [[{{LampshadeHanging}} he defines this trope]] in the 17th century. And then, Cervantes proceeds to [[{{PlayedForLaughs}} make "some commendatory verses" whose authors are some wizards, knights and damsels protagonist of other chivalry books]].
* DeaderThanDisco: InUniverse: At Part II Chapter XVI, DonQuixote claims that the ChivalricRomance (and it's RealLife counterpart, [[KnightErrant knight-errantry]] is this trope and he is merely trying to bring it to life again.
-->''[[DiscoDan My desire was to bring to life again]] [[KnightErrant knight-errantry]], [[DeaderThanDisco now dead]], and for some time past, stumbling here, falling there, now coming down headlong, now raising myself up again''
* DeathByDespair: DonQuixote could not survive his FanDisillusionment.
* DeconstructiveParody: Books of chivalry are ridiculed by having their tropes applied to real, everyday life.
** The other trope deconstructed and parodied is {{Fandumb}}.
* DoorStopper: It's quite a long book, although not obscenely so. The romances of chivalry it parodies tended to be even lengthier.
* FairForItsDay: Several of the attitudes expressed by the characters are enough to make modern sensibilities cringe. Sancho, a man usually associated with being a loyal and amiable sort actually considers taking up selling people as slaves and turning 'black into gold'.
* FanDisillusionment: After two novels being a literal AscendedFanboy UpToEleven of the ChivalricRomance, DonQuixote must accept in the last chapter that the ClicheStorm that he read as the adventures of a KnightErrant is not [[DeconstructedTrope as joyous as he thought it would be]]:
--> "[[BoredWithInsanity Good news for you, good sirs, that I am no longer Don Quixote of La Mancha, but Alonso Quixano, whose way of life won for him the name of Good]]. Now am I the enemy of [[KnightInShiningArmor Amadis of Gaul]] [[FollowTheLeader and of the whole countless troop of his descendants]]; [[ClicheStorm odious to me now are all the profane stories of knight-errantry;]] [[HeelRealization now I perceive my folly]], [[TheNewRockAndRoll and the peril into which reading them brought me;]] [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime now, by God's mercy schooled into my right senses, I loathe them.]]"
* FanFiction:
** InUniverse:
*** Chapter I, part I: [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quijano has read [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} ''The tale of Don Belianis of Greece:'' ]] and notes that the author has not finished that adventure, so he planned to write a continuation of it, and it would have been a great continuation if not because he abandoned that idea to become Don Quixote (this is not an InformedAbility: In Part I, Chapter II, Don Quixote begins the story of his own heroic exploits, that will undoubtedly write a sage in the future, and in Part I, Chapter XXI, Don Quixote narrates Sancho a perfect summary of the plot and all the typical situations of a chivalry book):
-->''"He commended, however, the author's way of ending his book with the promise of that interminable adventure, [[{{Continuation}} and many a time was he tempted to take up his pen and finish it properly as is there proposed, which no doubt he would have done]], [[{{FanFicRecommendations}} and made a successful piece of work of it too]], [[{{AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder}} had not greater and more absorbing thoughts]] [[{{AscendedFanboy}} prevented him]]."''
*** At Part I, Chapter XLVIII, Don Quixote and his party meet a man [[{{EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep}} who is referred only as]] [[{{MeaningfulName}} the canon]], who knows all the rules to write a good book, in the next chapter, he confess that he [[{{Fanfic}} wrote a hundred pages of a chivalry book]], [[{{DeadFic}} but then he cites the reasons that made him desist his intent]]:
-->''"I myself, at any rate," said the canon, "[[{{DeadFic}} was once tempted to write a book of chivalry ]] [[{{FixFic}} in which all the points I have mentioned were to be observed]]; [[{{FanFic}}and if I must own the truth I have more than a hundred sheets written; and to try if it came up to my own opinion of it, I showed them to persons who were fond of this kind of reading]], [[{{ViewersAreGeniuses}} to learned and intelligent men]] as well as to [[{{ViewersAreMorons}} ignorant people who cared for nothing but the pleasure of listening to nonsense]], and from all I obtained flattering approval; nevertheless I proceeded no farther with it, [[{{SciFIGhetto}} as well because it seemed to me an occupation inconsistent with my profession]], as because I perceived that the [[{{LowestCommonDenominator}} fools are more numerous than the wise; and, though it is better to be praised by the wise few than applauded by the foolish many, I have no mind to submit myself to the stupid judgment of the silly public, to whom the reading of such books falls for the most part]]."''
** In RealLife:
*** Fanfiction of the book itself. In the 10 years between the first and second part of the novel, there were some "apocryphal" continuations, which Cervantes himself references and afterwards rejects, saying he is the original writer. Which probably makes it one of the oldest examples.
*** Also, there had been [[strike:books]] (profesional fanfictions) written in spanish for the last four hundred years, (the most recent: "Al morir Don Quijote", published in 2004). You can find some examples in the other wiki: "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_influence_of_Don_Quixote List of works influenced by Don Quixote: 'Selected adaptations in literature']]" and additional examples of AlternateUniverseFic, Continuation Fic, ElsewhereFic, OriginalFlavour, in the other (Spanish) wiki: "[[http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuaciones_del_Quijote Continuations of Quixote: 'Continuaciones del Quixote']]"
* {{Flanderization}}: In the first part of the novel, Sancho Panza gives an HurricaneOfAphorisms only ''once''. In the second part, he gives it [[RunningGag continuosly]], and also [[LamarckWasRight his wife and his daughter]].
* FolkHero
* ForgottenTrope: The novel show us an example of the Captivity Narrative when [[AuthorAvatar Ruy Pérez de Viedma]] relates all his biography in ''“The story of the Captive Captain”'', you can see more at LifeEmbellished.
* GenreKiller: Credited with killing off romances of chivalry, although, to be fair, they were already falling out of fashion and pushing DeaderThanDisco.
* GenreSavvy: Apart from the protagonist (who is WrongGenreSavvy), many other characters are familiar with chivalric tropes and [[InvokedTrope invoke]] or [[DiscussedTrope discuss them]]. Note that at the end of both volumes, Don Quixote is defeated and forced to return to his village in strict accordance with the laws of the genre.
* GentleGiant: Part I Chapter I reveals that the giant Morgante is one of the [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quixano’s favorite characters, because despite being a giant, he is [[AffablyEvil affable and well bred]].
* GiverOfLameNames: The protagonist is probably the TropeCodifier.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Inverted: Don Quixote goes mad trying to make sense of the PurpleProse that plagued the chivalry books he has read, but [[TheUnreveal there never was any reveal]] because even {{Aristotle}} [[MindScrew could not have made sense of it]].
* HeroicWannabe: Practically made this trope.
* HerosMuse: The eponymous hero fights for his lady love, whom he refers to as Dulcinea. In his mind, he elevates her to a princess and the most beautiful woman in the world, although she is in reality a peasant girl named Aldonza.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Somewhat of an UrExample. Don Quixote seems to be living in his village for years, doing nothing but hunting, reading romances of chivalry, selling his property to pay for them ([[ConspicuousConsumption books were a lot more expensive then]]) and discussing them with [[ThoseTwoGuys his friends]]. Justified, because landed gentry of the time was expected to do little else.
* HonorBeforeReason: The protagonist falls victim to this trope countless times.
* HotBlooded: Don Quixote sure makes a lot of passionate speeches, and charges forward with aplomb, later subverted when he denies chivalry with the same passion.
* HumiliationConga: Practically [[OnceAnEpisode every single chapter]] ends up being this to Quixote and Sancho.
* HurricaneOfAphorisms: Sancho Panza does this, usually so poorly that it just makes him look stupider.
* IdiotHero: If not the TropeMaker, pretty much the TropeCodifier. UpToEleven if you think that in the end when he denies chivalry, Don Quixote is portrayed as the OnlySaneMan and even as [[MessiahCreep the ideal man]].
** It's subverted: Don Quixote is not an idiot, and we know it since the very beginning of the novel. He is a very smart, intelligent, well-educated man, who is perfectly normal as long as he is not talking about his obsessions: ''"apart from the silly things which this worthy gentleman says in connection with his craze, when other subjects are dealt with, he can discuss them in a perfectly rational manner, showing that his mind is quite clear and composed; so that, provided his chivalry is not touched upon, no one would take him to be anything but a man of thoroughly sound understanding."'' Part I, chapter 30. Of course, [[{{TooDumbToLive}} when he is indulging his chivalry fantasies... well... ]]
* IfICantHaveYou: Part II, chapter LX, Claudia Jeronima and Don Vicente Tornellas, from different factions of the civil war that was plaguing Barcelona, secretly fall in love and planned to marry, but one day Claudia Jerónima learned that Don Vicente wants to marry another woman. The next day, overwhelmed and exasperated, she shot him. [[TearJerker And then she learns that he never intended to marry any other woman that Claudia]].
* ImpoverishedPatrician: [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quijano is an [[{{BlueBlood}} Hidalgo]] that still has the ancient arms of his ancestors, but has so little money that almost most of them is spent in food. What can he do? He is very smart and talented, so he could work, [[{{InherentInTheSystem}} but if he does, he will lose the few privileges he has as an hidalgo (like, to be excused to pay taxes) ]]. He is poor and bored. It does not help that he spent a lot of them in those silly chivalry books. Sure, they help him with the boredom, and the knight life is certainly exciting, but they are only absurd tales? right?
* InNameOnly: Joel Silver is threatening to produce a big-budget, "''PiratesOfTheCaribbean''-like" film about a {{Swashbuckler}} Don Quixote that [[CompletelyMissingThePoint is not crazy]] and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters fights real monsters]] from AnotherDimension.
** Ironically, Don Quixote would have preferred [[RuleOfCool this kind of adaptation]] to any other.
* TheInsomniac: Alonso Quijano is a type B, as described in Part I Chapter I: lead by his obsession to read chivalry books, he sleeps less and less while reading more and more and that sends him over the edge.
* InsanityDefense: The reason why DonQuixote is never killed (but often beaten) by the poor InnocentBystander of the day.
--> The landlord shouted to them to leave him alone, for he had already told them that he was mad, and as a madman he would not be accountable even if he killed them all.
* InWhichATropeIsDescribed: [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Played Straight with Almost All the Chapters of the Two Parts because the Beginning of a Chapter Summarizes the Chapter's Events]], but then [[{{InvertedTrope}} Inverted]] in Some Chapters that Do Not Summarize Anything:
-->** Part II, Chapter 70 WHICH FOLLOWS SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY
-->** Part II, Chapter 66 WHICH TREATS OF WHAT HE WHO READS WILL SEE, OR WHAT HE WHO HAS IT READ TO HIM WILL HEAR
* KnightInShiningArmor and KnightErrant: What Don Quixote thinks he is, and thereby thoroughly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs.]]
* LifeEmbellished: [[AuthorAvatar Ruy Pérez de Viedma]] relates all his biography in ''“The story of the Captive Captain”''. He was a handsome captive captain who wanted to escape the Moors and was helped by a Zoraida, a beautiful moor princess who wanted to convert to Christianity, organized a successful evasion to Spain, was well received by his powerful and rich relatives and married Zoraida. Cervantes was a captive who failed all his evasion intents, his family paid his rescue and always was an ImpoverishedPatrician.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Cervantes (only referred in the book as "The second author") says that the book was based on some manuscripts he found and made translate to spanish by an arab translator.
** Written by some Arabian named Cide Hamete Benengeli (or Sidi Ahmed bin Engeli, as it would be rendered today) whose first name, "Cide", could be translated as "Mister", and whoselast name is [[PunnyName a pun]] on "berenjena" (eggplant/aubergine).
*** This trope is parodied, because a lot of chivalry books have his authors claim that they are based in an old manuscript found in an ancient pyramid or another ruined building in some faraway country, written in an exotic language by a wise, famed wizard who favored the hero of the novel. Those claims are made to feign that the chivalry book was inspired by real events. Cervantes twist this and uses it to a comic effect, explaining that the next part of the novel was found in some phamplets and papers (only a few years old) found in Alcana de Toledo (a real city in Spain) in a silk mercer store, written in Arabic (a fairly known language in Spain) by a (foolish) boy who didn't know what was written in them and so sold the papers to Cervantes for peanuts. If we include the funny name of the wizard and the fact that the [[{{UnreliableNarrator}} second author, the translator and Cide Hamete Benengeli are always making comments about the book]], we can see that Cervantes want us to admit that all this tale is a long sequence of lies and nonsense... just like all the chivalry books.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Critics have counted six hundred characters in the book (a lot of them unnamed).
* LongList: This trope is played straight and parodied:
** Played straight at the Preface of the Author, Part I: a friend of Cervantes advices him to get [[{{LongList}} a book that quotes famous authors from A to Z]] [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} and just insert the examples in his own book, so Cervantes can feign that he knows all those authors, because some]] [[{{ViewersAreMorons}} readers are simple enough to believe that the author can use all those quotes in any book]].
** Parodied at Chapter XVIII, Part I. Since {{Homer}}, the description of the forces and the generals of an army was an important part of the heroic literature, and books of chivalry were pleased to develop it, (Amadis of Gaul has a similar scene). In that chapter, Don Quixote describes what he sees at two contending armies to Sancho, whom only can see… two droves of sheep.
* LoonyFan: Sanson Carrásco presents himself as one fan of DonQuixote and discuss with him and Sancho the {{SeriesContinuityError}}s, and [[PityingPerversion wants to help that poor, mad fool]] to regain sanity. HilarityEnsues.
* LordErrorProne: Pretty much the TropeMaker.
* LoveMartyr: Part II, chapter LX, Don Vicente Tornellas has been shot by his fiancée Claudia Jeronima because she believed that Don Vicente wanted to marry another woman. Don Vicente?s last words are to tell her that he was innocent, never intended to marry any other woman, [[{{Tearjerker}} that he considers himself lucky to talk with her in his last moments of life, and then his last act before dying is to give Jeronima his hand and ask her to make him his husband]].
* MadDreamer
* MayDecemberRomance: DonQuixote is around 50; Dulcinea, being an unmarried peasant girl, is probably less than 20. Not that she knows anything about her pretender's interest, though.
** Deconstructed with Altisidora and DonQuixote in the second part: Altisidora, a 14 year old maiden at the Duke’s palace, pretends to be in love with DonQuixote. He stoically supports her [[ClingyJealousGirl teasing and mean pranks]] because he believes [[SmittenTeenageGirl she’s in love with him]], but he never attempts anything because he wants to be loyal to Dulcinea and is very happy when he abandons her and the palace. Being an honest man, he confesses to Sancho that Altisidora’s felings caused him ''more confusion than pity'', showing us how awkward and foolish would be this kind of relationship in reality.
* MeaningfulName: Dulcinea, the name Don Quixote gives to his random LoveInterest, could be translated as "Sweety". For the others, see PunnyName. Another example: Doctor Pedro Recio (could be translated as "Doctor Hard Rock"), a doctor who insists that Sancho, as a governor, must have a very strict diet. There are many, many others. The very name itself, ''quixote'' (Modern Spanish ''quijote'') means "cuisse", the thighplate of a knightly armour.
* TheMusical: ''ManOfLaMancha'', with showtune standard "The Impossible Dream".
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Countless times, Don Quixote's chivalric antics make things only worse.
* NoFourthWall: Numerous characters in the second part recognize DonQuixote and Sancho Panza by having read the first part.
** Considering that this was written in the 17th century, it's a textbook case of a trope [[OlderThanTheyThink used ''avant la lettre'']].
* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Don Quixote travels to Barcelona, a province of the [[TheEmpire Spanish Empire]] facing a CivilWar. [[ButtMonkey Sancho get lost at night in a forest whose trees are filled with feet wearing shoes and stocking]]. [[CasualDangerDialog DonQuixote calmly explains that]] [[CrushingThePopulace the authorities hang outlaws by twenties and thirties when they catch them]].
* OlderThanTheyThink:
** InUniverse: This is only one of the CommonFanFallacies [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quixano falls into in the first chapter of the novel, showing us his descent from Fanboy to Fandumb:
*** in Part I, Chapter I: [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} Bernardo del Carpio]] is one of Alonso Quixano's favorite knights, because he found the way to defeat [[{{NighInvulnerable}} Roland]] [[{{AWizardDidIt}} the enchanted]]: instead of attacking him with a sword, [[{{CombatPragmatist}} Bernardo simply strangled Roland]]… Cool, isn’t it? [[{{TheOldestOnesInTheBook}} But not as cool as the first time this tale was told]], [[{{UnreliableNarrator}} as our narrator]] [[{{LampshadeHanging}} remind us]],
*** In Part I, Chapter I: The giant Morgante is one of [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quixano’s favorite characters, because despite being a giant, (and in the chivalry books all giants are arrogant and angry), he is affable and well bred… It’s cool, isn’t it? the whole point is that Alonso Quixano think’s [[{{ArchetypalCharacter}} this kind of character]] is original of his beloved chivalry books, but really [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Christopher it’s not]].
* OnlySaneMan: Sancho. And even then, he still willingly follows Quixote and even believes some of the ridiculous things he's told, because he's a simple peasant who doesn't know any better.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Lampshaded: In the first part, it's very clear that Sancho Panza is a naïve simpleton. In the second part, Sancho suddenly says very intelligent things to his wife. [[{{LiteraryAgentHypothesis}} One of the "narrators" of this tale]], seeing this inconsistence, decides to [[{{LampshadeHanging}} warn us:]] '' "The translator of this history, when he comes to write this fifth chapter, says that he considers it apocryphal, because in it Sancho Panza speaks in a style unlike that which might have been expected from his limited intelligence, and says things so intelligent that he does not think it possible he could have conceived them; however, desirous of doing what his task imposed upon him, he was unwilling to leave it untranslated, and therefore he went on to say":'' This could be considered the beginning of Sancho's slow transformation into a [[SimplemindedWisdom wiser person]].
* PityingPerversion: The Barber and the Curate, two MoralGuardians, and later LoonyFan Sanson Carrásco, whose sincere desire to help that poor fool, DonQuixote and cure his madness is sabotaged by this attitude, rendering all of them into ThresholdGuardians. ([[NotSoDifferent Also, all three do things to help him that could be easily described as "crazy"]])
* PunnyName: In a 17th century's pun, Quixote means "cuisse", the piece of armor covering the thigh. Modern Spanish form is ''quijote''.
** DonQuixote's real name, Alonso Quijano, is a pun on "quijada" (jaw), as he's also a rather skinny guy.
** Panza means "belly", specifically a big one. Accordingly, Sancho is a BigEater.
** Rocinante comes from "rocín", still used today in Spanish to name any ugly, skinny or generally bad-quality horse.
*** Even better: Rocinante is a contraction from "rocín antes", which means that it was a "rocín" before.
* PurpleProse: Parodied and Lampshaded: Cervantes achieved the rare miracle of having a florid style that is clearly understandable. But he recognized and denounced this trope:
** Cervantes denounces this trope in the books of chivalry: We all know that purple prose is [[{{SuckinessIsPainful}} annoying to those who read it]], but in the chapter I part I, Cervantes ensures us that Alonso Quijano [[{{BrownNote}} went crazy]] [[{{ImpossibleTask}} because he tried to understand ]] what the authors meant, and he [[{{TakeThat}} imitates the style of one in particular]]. [[{{SchmuckBait}} You can find the quote at the click in the link ... if you dare. ]]
** Another example is obtained in Chapter II, Part I: Don Quixote has begun his lefting his home through a back door and now travels the countryside, [[{{GlorySeeker}} thinking about]] [[{{FamedInStory}} how some wise wizard will write the beginning of his adventure]]. Don Quixote uses a style perhaps not as exaggerated as some examples of purple prose, but certainly is overdeveloped and fancy. You can find the quote at the link of this trope.
* RandomEventsPlot: Given that the first part of the novel is a DeconstructiveParody of ChivalricRomance, and those books were not more than a KnightErrant in the road reacting to the events that happened to him, the first part is this (the second part has a plot in [[DamselInDistress Dulcinea’s rescue]]). Only that instead of being boring or confusing, Cervantes aimed, and was able, to reproduce the feel of RealLife in his book.
* RealityEnsues: This is what happens when an aging nobleman with little fighting skills and crappy armaments imagines himself a knight-errant.
* RetCon: In Part II, Cervantes tried to correct some of the most glaring continuity errors of the first book, particularly the mysterious disappearance of Sancho's donkey.
* SarcasticDevotee: Sancho Panza
* SatireParodyPastiche: Cervantes, both in the prologue and in the the novel itself parodies the way contemporary writers wrote, satirized characters, books, made allusions to many, MANY other works and made a huge impact at the time it was printed.
* ScheherazadeGambit: Sancho tries to do this to Quixote to keep him from charging against a watermill (Quixote had something with mills). He forgets about what he was telling.
** It's actually even funnier than that: the story he tells Quixote was a common children's story of the time, and is supposed to work like a lullaby, repeating a useless element over and over until the kid goes to sleep.
* ScreeningTheCall: If Quixote's reading induced insanity is his CallToAdventure, then the attempt to burn his books is an attempt to Screen The Call.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Deconstructed in the [[ShowWithinAShow Novel Within A Novel ''"The Ill-Advised Curiosity"'']] where [[TooDumbToLive Anselmo]] asks his best friend Lotario to test the fidelity of his wife, Camila. In any other story, Lucinda will pass the test and everyone will have lived HappilyEverAfter. In the novel, Lucinda and Lotario became lovers [[KillThemAll causing the tragic deaths of the three]].
* SeriesContinuityError: For a book that only has one continuation, there are various examples of those errors. Then again, Cervantes was mocking [[{{FanDumb}}those fans who put too much attention to continuity]]… There are two types:
** Lampshaded InUniverse:
*** Chapter I, part I: [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quijano has some continuity questions about [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} ''The tale of Don Belianis of Greece:'' ]]
-->[[{{ItJustBugsMe}} ''"He was not at all easy about the wounds which Don Belianis gave and took]], [[{{FridgeLogic}} because it seemed to him that]], [[{{WildMassGuessing}} great as were the surgeons who had cured him]], [[{{PlotHole}} he must have had his face and body]] [[{{NegativeContinuity}} covered all over with seams and scars"'']].
** Played straight In the book:
*** [[{{PlotHole}} Sancho’s donkey disappearance]]
*** [[{{ChuckCunninghamSyndrome}} The lad who helps them with the field and the marketplace]].
*** [[{{WhatHappenedToTheMouse}} Those hundred crowns that Sancho found in the valise in the Sierra Morena]]
* SeriousBusiness: This is the theme of the novel: The first part, only Don Quixote is affected with the chivalry lifestyle, but in the second, a sizable portion of the Spanish population takes it far more seriously than it should be. There are various examples:
** InUniverse:
*** '''Don Quixote''': Type I: The very last stage of [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quixano obsession with chivalry books and the first stage of his true madness (and also to show exactly how out of touch with reality he really is): Part I, Chapter I shows us how important are the chivalry books for him: he will have given his housekeeper and his niece to kick that traitor of Ganelon. ([[BetrayalTropes Ganelon]] was the guy who betrayed [[Literature/TheSongOfRoland Roland at Roncesvalles]] and who becomes, with [[KingArthur Mordred]] and [[{{Jesus}} Judas]], one of the great exemplars of treachery for the mediæval period).
*** '''The Duke and the Duchess:''' They spent a lot of money and organize truly MassiveMultiplayerScam (Dulcinea’s enchantment has all the people in their castle, the Insula Barataria involucres all the people of a town) only to laugh at DonQuixote and Sancho.
*** '''[[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname The Cousin]]''', a KnowNothingKnowItAll who is a researcher of LittleKnownFacts and [[InformedAbility author of three books (still not published)]]: [[SeriousBusiness All of great utility and no less entertainment to the nation. With quotes from more than twenty five authors]].
* ShallowLoveInterest: Aldonza Lorenzo a.k.a Dulcinea Del Toboso, who isn't even aware of her status as love interest of DonQuixote.
** This trope is parodied and exaggerated with Dulcinea Del Toboso, a lover that DonQuixote ''imagined'' from a peasant girl called Aldonza Lorenzo. [[ShadowArchetype She represents for him all that is lovable about a woman without any of the defects of a real person]], and [[TheDulcineaEffect he only imagined her so he can undertake adventures in her name]]. She becomes the [[ExaggeratedTrope illogical extreme of this trope]], because nobody is more shallow than a ShadowArchetype.
* ShoutOut: Hundreds upon hundreds of them, although many would be unrecognizable to the modern reader because of WeirdAlEffect.
** Chapter I part I mentions {{Aristotle}}, philosopher widely regarded as the greatest abstract thinker of Occidental Civilization. Even he has no chance to make sense of the purple prose that plagued Chivalry Books. Also in the Chapter III part II, Don Quixote's opinion about history and poetry reflects the theory exposed in Aristotle's ''Poetics''.
* ShowWithinAShow (in Part 1, a number of short stories told by other characters). For example, "The Ill-Advised Curiosity" is a true novel within the novel, and [[ThoseTwoGuys the priest]] reads it to all the guests in the inn completely through two chapters of the first part.
* SimplemindedWisdom: Sancho Panza has this trait.
* {{Slapstick}}: And charging against a windmill is just in chapter 8 '''of 126 chapters!!!'''
* SmallReferencePools: This trope is defined and lampshaded by Cervantes in the Preface of the Author, Part I, [[{{TakeThat}} denouncing a common author trick]]: [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} Any Spanish author of XVII century only needs to mention the most obvious and world-renowned people or facts. And he doesn't even need to know those facts, he could only research ]] [[{{LongList}} a book that quotes famous authors from A to Z]] and just insert the examples in his own book, because some [[{{ViewersAreMorons}} readers are simple enough to believe that the author can use all those quotes in any book]].
* StopHelpingMe: Many characters (most memorably Andres, the flogged boy) react this way to Don Quixote's interference.
* SweetPollyOliver: Dorotea, from the first part.
* TakeThat: '''AND HOW!''' Cervantes uses his book to attack several people and institutions of the XVII century, always in a funny manner:
** Unfortunately for him, Cervantes was not a very known author when he published "Don Quixote" at 1605, and given the [[{{SmallNameBigEgo}} extremely difficult Spanish literary environment of his time]], he didn't get any commendatory verses for his book from any (famous) author, so he wrote a dialog in the Preface of the Author, Part I, where Cervantes explains this setback and despairs to publish "Don Quixote". His friend advised him to pretend that Cervantes has done [[{{ShownTheirWork}} extensive research to impress his audience]], when [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} in fact he will take advantage of some tricks ]] [[{{TakeThat}} used by several renowned Spanish writers of his time]] (Cervantes never mentions names so as not to disturb famous Spanish authors like Lope de Vega).
*** The first advice of his friend is [[{{DanBrowned}} to make himself (Cervantes) the commendatory verses, and then claim they were made from some famous or powerful characters of his time, even claiming that some of them were famous poets]], when [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} the truth is that a lot of the powerful Spanish people of his time could not be poets, and even were illiterate]].
*** The second advice of his friend is [[{{AltumVidetur}} to include sentences of Latin that seem to be profound ]] [[{{ShownTheirWork}} (and so impress his lectors)]], but [[{{ViewersAreMorons}} in reality, ]] [[{{SmallReferencePools}} those Latin sentences were very common and any author of his time could find them with very little effort]].
*** Cervantes also mocks the authors attributed to another author some famous line by way of PopculturalOsmosis (in the Spain of the 17th century), [[{{BeamMeUpScotty}} despite the fact that those lines were never uttered by them]]. Cervantes’s friend mentions a line that a lot of people attributed to Horace, but this [[{{ShownTheirWork}} friend really has done the research]], so he mentions ''"or whoever said it"''.
*** Last but no least, in his prologue of part I, Cervante’s friend mentions a common author trick of his time: [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} Any spanish author of XVII century only needs to mention the most obvious and world-renowned people or facts. And he doesn´t even need to know those facts, he could only research ]] [[{{LongList}} a book that quotes famous authors from A to Z]] and just insert the examples in his own book, because some [[{{ViewersAreMorons}} readers are simple enough to believe that the author can use all those quotes in any book]]. Critics have said that this last reference was an attack to Lope de Vega, the most influential Spanish playwright and writer, and very successful and famous in their own time. (Cervantes himself was not successful, but he is one of the most influential universal writers).
** An attack to the [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} (then) famous ]] chivalry book's author Feliciano de Silva's composition, ''"[[{{SarcasmMode}} for their lucidity of style and complicated conceits were as pearls in his sight]]"'', Feliciano's style was an example of [[{{PurpleProse}} how to sacrifice Utility in the altar of Eloquence ]], [[{{DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment}} writing sentence after sentence of redundant synonyms once and again]], [[{{MindScrew}} making it so confuse that you cannot even try to comprehend it]].
** In Chapter I Part I, the narrator notes that [[Literature/TheSongOfRoland the history of Reinaldos de Montalban mentions]] [[{{CriticalResearchFailure}} an idol]] [[{{YouFailReligiousStudiesForever}} of Mahomet made of gold]].
* TechnicalPacifist
* TheAllegedSteed: Rocinante. So much so that his name is synonymous with busted old nags in Spain.
* TheDulcineaEffect (pretty much the TropeMaker -and TropeNamer- for this.)
* TheGhost: There are two examples:
** Played straight with Aldonza Lorenzo, a young peasant girl from a town called Toboso, who is blissfully unaware that Don Quixote's had a crush on her. She never appeared in neither parts of the novel, only was referred to by other characters.
** Parodied by Dulcinea del Toboso, the imaginary love interest of Don Quixote. Since the first part of the novel, Don Quixote imagines her as a beatiful noblewoman who lives in a castle, or in other words, a person completely different from Aldonza Lorenzo. This imaginary entity is a literal ghost, but it's mentioned so many times across the novel that she can be considered the third protagonist besides Don Quixote and Sancho. Besides, in the second part, one of the plot points is Don Quixote's quest to disenchant Dulcinea and to find her at last, even when he knows he imagined her, this is another proof of Don Quixote's madness.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Pedro Perez, The priest, and Maese Nicholas, The barber. Better known as "The priest and the barber", two guys from the same town as Don Quixote, who are fond of chivalry books, like Don Quixote, and that are completely sane, unlike Don Quixote, and... well, you would not find any other personality trait in them.
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: [[invoked]] Alonso Quijano and his friends [[{{ThoseTwoGuys}} the curate and the barber]] were [[{{Fanboy}} victims of this phenomenon]] and in the very first chapter of part I we learn that they had a lot of discussions about [[{{WhoWouldWin}} who had been the better knight]]... Keep in mind this book was written more than four hundred years ago!
* UnreliableNarrator: Several layers of this, actually.
** Lampshaded: In the very first paragraph, Don Quixote's literary portrait has the narrator NOT telling us the name of Don Quixote's town, and the narrator admits he doesn't know very well if his name was Quixada, Quesada or Quexana. For the people of the seventeen century, this was an infringement of a very well known rule of the literary portrait, and so they immediately had the real impression that the author was a liar. Also, [[{{LiteraryAgentHypothesis}} the original author (Cide Hamete Benengeli) and the Translator (an anonymous moor)]] comment the text when the plot is being implausible, and the second author (Cervantes), [[{{SuspiciouslySpecificDenial}} constantly remind us that this is a true history]]. All these tricks show that Cervantes clearly want the reader realizes that this tale cannot be true.
*** Not to mention the fact that the so called original author has an Arabic name. At that time in Spain, Arabs were thought to be liars.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The Captive's Tale is loosely based on the author's own life.
* VictimizedBystander: Most of the people Don Quixote encounters fall in this trope, espacialy Sancho.
* WalkingTheEarth: Well, they try to.
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Don Quixote perceives this as a [[{{CourtlyLove}} common theme for a knight and his lady]]. Part II, Chapter XXXII:
-->''" I am in love, for no other reason than that it is incumbent on knights-errant to be so; but though I am, I am no carnal-minded lover, but one of the chaste, platonic sort".''
** All the first part of the novel, Sancho has ride with Don Quixote [[StandardHeroReward under the promise of a governorship]]. At chapter VII of the second part, Sancho demands a salary for his work. [[GenreSavvy Don Quixote claims that he had never read a Chivalry book where a squire would get a wage and he will never disturb the ancient usage of Knight – Errantry]], so he invokes this trope telling Sancho:
--> ''"and bear in mind, my son, that a good hope is better than a bad holding, and a good grievance better than a bad compensation"''
* WackyWaysideTribe: The last chapters of the First Part are dedicated to solve a RomanticPlotTumor, reading a [[ShowWithinAShow NovelWithinANovel named ''"The Ill-Advised Curiosity"'']] and to [[ForgottenTrope hear the tale of the Captive Captain]], leaving Don Quixote as a mere spectator in his own book. In the Second Part In the Second Part Cervantes makes a AuthorsSavingThrow when Don Quixote opines:
--> ''"...and I know not what could have led [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis the author to have recourse to]] [[ShowWithinAShow novels]] and [[RomanticPlotTumor irrelevant stories]], [[ItsAllAboutMe when he had so much to write about in mine; no doubt he must have gone by]] [[{{Filler}} the proverb 'with straw or with hay, &c.,' for by merely setting forth my thoughts, my sighs, my tears, my lofty purposes, my enterprises]], [[DoorStopper he might have made a volume as large, or larger than all the works of El Tostado]] [[hottip:*:Alfonso de Madrigal, philosopher whose works "have more than twenty volumes.".]] would make up"''.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: First line: "In a village of La Mancha the name of which I have no desire to recall." It's even lampshaded in the very last chapter: Part II, chapter 74: '' "Such was the end of the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, whose village Cide Hamete would not indicate precisely, in order to leave all the towns and villages of La Mancha to contend among themselves for the right to adopt him and claim him as a son, as the seven cities of Greece contended for Homer".''
** Which, guess what, is what happened.
* WideEyedIdealist: Quixote.
** Well, it is where the word 'quixotic' comes from...
** This trope is severely deconstructed: In the first part, DonQuixote cares more for fulfilling his fantasies than for anyone else. He confides that the farmer Haduldo will stop floggin the boy Andrés and that the Galley slaves he liberates will be grateful enough to make him a favor. (They´re not). His actions make him the original LordErrorProne. In the second part is even worse: he really acts ForHappiness and after some MassiveMultiplayerScam aventures that convince him he is a real KnightErrant he must face the sad fact that he has not helped anyone and therefore, all those ChivalricRomance tropes were BlatantLies. This is so heartbreaking that he becomes BoredWithInsanity and dies. Being called ''"Quixotic"'' is not always a good thing.
* AWizardDidIt: All over the place in the books Don Quixote reads, so naturally when reality blatantly deviates from how he imagines it, he assumes that enchanters are behind it.
** Much more literally, when the priest and the barber burn Don Quixote's books, they tell him that a wizard stole them. Don Quixote goes off to find the wizard.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Probably the TropeMaker.
* YouWatchTooMuchX: Even when Quixote could be the UrExample and TropeMaker for this trope, in the novel this is a UnbuiltTrope: the StockPhrase never appears in the novel, and Don Quixote is not GenreSavvy but WrongGenreSavvy: When in some situation Don Quixote comments about how similar situation have happened in the tales he has read in his chivalry books , the people hearing him don’t answer with “You read too much X”. Even so, there are some examples that are very near to this situation, and the fact that Don Quixote read too much and that drove him to believe that he was a knight errand is the core of the novel, and is lampshaded by the narrator since the very beginning (Chapter I Part I).
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->''In a place of La Mancha, the name of which I don't want to recall, there lived not long ago one of those gentlemen with lance on the rack, old shield, worn-out horse, and racing greyhound.''
These are the very first lines of ''Don Quixote'', full title ''The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha''( "El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha" in the original Spanish). The novel was written by Spanish writer and satirist Miguel De Cervantes. Cervantes wrote the story in two parts, the first part published in 1605 and the second in 1615.
The story is about an old [[{{BlueBlood}} ''hidalgo'']] named Alonso Quijano, [[{{YouWatchTooMuchX}} who was so into]] [[ChivalricRomance chivalric novels]] that he became insane and [[AscendedFanboy decided that he was a vagrant knight]]. [[{{MeaningfulRename}} Quijano renames himself as "Don Quixote de La Mancha"]] and decides to [[{{GlorySeeker}} win eternal fame]] through [[KnightInShiningArmor the besting of wrongdoers and general upholding of the Chivalric Code]]. Unfortunately for a lot of innocent people, his delusions [[{{LordErrorProne}} make him pick fights]] with [[strike:other knights]] innocent bystanders, some of whom do not fight back because Don Quixote is obviously [[strike:superior in his fighting skills]] crazy. Of course, there are strangers who are not that sympathetic, and after one of those [[{{HilarityEnsues}} delivers a brutal beating to Don Quixote]], a neighbor from his village meets the wounded Don Quixote and takes him home, where his friends and family burn out the accursed [[ChivalricRomance books of chivalry]] to try to cure him, but he soon returns to his [[strike:heroic quest]] delusion and journey. This time he manages to [[strike:inspire]] convince a simple farm-man, [[{{Foil}} Sancho Panza]], to become his squire and sidekick under the [[{{StandardHeroReward}} promise of a governorship in the future]]. Then they live [[{{Troperiffic}} a lot of adventures]], including the famous one where [[WindmillCrusader Don Quixote attacks some windmills]] because they [[strike:are]] might be [[WindmillPolitical giants in disguise]]. At the end of the book, [[{{ThoseTwoGuys}} Don Quixote’s friends]] trick him [[{{WrongGenreSavvy}} by making him believe he is enchanted]] and take him back to his village.
Throughout the novel Don Quixote never, even for a moment, doubt that the fictional adventures that he has read were real and that he really is a knight errant. Not even the [[{{ThresholdGuardians}} petitions of his loved ones]], [[{{HumiliationConga}} the continuous ridicule of his peers ]] or [[{{YouCanBarelyStand}} the brutal beatings he suffers]] made him break his resolution: [[{{Determinator}} Don Quixote always continues trying to impose his quixotic (literally; he's the word's origin) beliefs on the world]].
The first part of the novel was [[OlderThanSteam published in 1605]], when the books of chivalry were pushing DeaderThanDisco and Don Quixote's [[{{AffectionateParody}} dreams of reviving chivalry ways]] were really a strange, misbegotten idea. The novel became a big success among the public of the time (although that success was nothing unheard of at the time with other titles, and [[{{ItsPopularNowItSucks}} certainly that was not the case]] [[{{SmallNameBigEgo}} with the contemporary Spanish critics)]], and was reprinted several times in the next decade and even translated into French and English. But most notable was the change in Spanish popular culture. [[{{PopCulturalOsmosis}} A few months after printing, virtually all of Spain knew about Don Quixote’s exploits:]] [[{{MemeticMutation}} Memetic Mutations]] arose, [[{{CyclicTrope}} those ridiculous books of chivalry became popular again]], and even apocryphal "[[FanFiction continuations]]" appeared. Cervantes created a character to mock the FanDumb and the books of chivalry that perverted true heroism, only to find that, Don Quixote, [[{{ArtistDisillusionment}} thanks to his readers]], had achieved his goal: to change [[{{RealLife}} reality]].
Cervantes, in [[CreatorBacklash an early attempt]] at killing a MisaimedFandom, decided to end the story and wrote a still hilarious second part with [[CerebusSyndrome a more serious tone]], taking advantage of the change operated by the first part of the book in RealLife, where Don Quixote has evolved from a LordErrorProne to a honest man whose noble attitude and his delusions makes him the ButtMonkey of a lot of people. Don Quixote has to confront his delusions (but only in the very last chapter), and the harshness of reality make him realize that [[strike:[[{{CompletelyMissingThePoint}} in reality there are no heroes]]]] [[FanDisillusionment his naïve dreams were shallow]], [[BoredWithInsanity and brings him back to sanity]] [[DeathByDespair before his death]]. To his chagrin, [[SpringtimeForHitler Book II is considered even more brilliant than Book I]].
It has been adapted to every medium, including a couple of animated adaptations (one of them with {{Funny Animal}}s) and even a [[TheMusical Musical]].
Very commonly cited, in literary criticism, as "the first modern novel" and is probably among the most influential books of all time (just take a look at the TheOtherWiki's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote#Influences_upon_literature_and_literary_theory list]]).
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!!TropeNamer for:
* TheDulcineaEffect
* TheRocinante: or as it's more commonly known on these boards, TheAllegedSteed.
* NoMereWindmill: An inversion of the famous windmill scene
* WindmillCrusader: With Don Quixote being the UrExample.
* WindmillPolitical: The UrExample, but in most other examples the windmills are not literal.
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!! Tropes found in ''Don Quixote'':
* AntiquatedLinguistics/[[YeOldeButcheredEnglish Ye Olde Butchered Spanishe]]: In the original Spanish book, at least, Don Quijote uses outdated forms of speech and pronunciation, like maintaining the initial 'f' in words like 'fermosa' (hermosa), in an attempt to emulate the outdated forms of speech used on chivalry novels.
** This shows up in some translations as a {{Woolseyism}}: Don Quixote simply uses more archaic vocabulary than everyone else around.
* AffectionateParody: Cervantes was a connoisseur of chivalry novels (evidenced by the famous scene where the priest and the barber go into a lengthy discussion of Don Quixote's library), and his parody of the genre isn't as vicious and destructive as commonly thought.
* AltumVidetur: This trope is lampshaded twice by Cervantes:
** In the Preface of the Author, Part I, [[{{TakeThat}} Cervantes attacks ]] [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} authors that want to impress their readers with his knowledge without the appropiate research]]. Cervantes denounces [[{{AltumVidetur}} to include sentences of Latin that seem to be profound ]] [[{{ShownTheirWork}} (and so impress his lectors)]], but [[{{ViewersAreMorons}} in reality, ]] [[{{SmallReferencePools}} those Latin sentences were very common and any author of his time could find them with very little effort]]. In a word, [[{{LampshadeHanging}} he ''' defines ''' this trope]] in the 17th century. And then, Cervantes proceeds to [[{{HypocriticalHumor}} include some sentences in Latin in both parts of Don Quixote]].
** Another example is lampshaded in Part II, chapter LI. Sancho has been made [[{{MassiveMultiplayerScam}} governor of the "Island of Barataria]]". In the seventeen century, it was expected that the people who were part of the government and the aristocracy were well educated, and this education included Latin. Don Quixote never uses Latin words in his sentences with Sancho because he is not interested in impress him with his superior knowledge, but he expects that Sancho will learn Latin now that he is a governor.
* AnimatedAdaptation: [[HannaBarbera "Don Coyote & Sancho Panda"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4tFzD13hmc An earlier example]] (1979), without [[TalkingAnimal Talking Animals]].
** And a ''hilarious'' anime adaptation, too: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TDP540GASY Zukkoke Knight Don de la Mancha]].
* {{Arcadia}}: Don Quixote considers becoming a shepherd instead of a knight at the end. {{Foreshadowed}} by the Golden Age speech he gives to the shepherds in the book's beginning; pastoral tropes in general are very important in the novel.
* AscendedFanboy: Quixote takes a more proactive approach than most.
* AuthorAvatar: Cervantes dedicates some chapters of the first part of the novel to ''“The story of the Captive Captain”'', Ruy Pérez de Viedma, a Spanish captain who was prisoner of the Moors. Curiously, this man, like the Priest, claims to know some guy called “de Saavedra”.
* AuthorFilibuster: Parodied and lampshaded. The critics have said that the chivalry books were plagued by a lot of lengthy discourses from different abstract themes, immobilizing the action and discouraging the reader. Cervantes lampshaded this when Don Quixote talks for nearly two pages in the [[{{AuthorFilibuster}} ''"Discourse on The Golden Age"'', ]] Part I, Chapter XI: ''"All this long harangue (which might very well have been spared)"'' and satirized it when in the [[{{AuthorFilibuster}} ''"Discourse on Arms and Letters"'', ]] Part I, Chapter XXXVIII, the action really never stops, because all the other characters eat their dinners while Don Quixote talked: ''"All this lengthy discourse Don Quixote delivered while the others supped, forgetting to raise a morsel to his lips, though Sancho more than once told him to eat his supper, as he would have time enough afterwards to say all he wanted."''
* AWizardDidIt: Quite literally. Just replace "Wizard" with "Enchanter." When the events of the story veer far enough away from Quixote's account in the style of Knights Errant, Quixote explicitly invokes this trope to explain the discrepancy.
* BadassSpaniard: Don Quixote aspires to be one, and actually does pull off some real badassery (e.g., his adventure with the lion).
* BeamMeUpScotty: Lampshaded: In the Preface of the Author, Part I, Cervantes’s friend mentions a quote in Latin that a lot of people attributed to Horace, but Cervantes's friend [[{{ShownTheirWork}} really has done the research]], so he mentions ''"or whoever said it"''.
** There are some cases of this trope in the Spanish pop culture, see some examples in the link.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Sancho Panza
* [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet]] DownerEnding: Don Quixote, after a string of treasons and especially cruel practical jokes, regains his sanity and negates chivalry just before his death, while his squire has ingrained the chivalry lifestyle so deeply that he practically cries for Don Quixote to come back to the adventure.
* BoredWithInsanity: In the last chapter of DonQuixote, a poster boy for {{Fandumb}} of ChivalricRomance, his FanDisillusionment is so great that he gets BoredWithInsanity and comes back to his senses.
--> ''"I was mad, now I am in my senses; I was Don Quixote of La Mancha, I am now, as I said, Alonso Quixano the Good"''
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Surprisingly, played straight and lampshaded, not because Don Quixote wants to be a Knight in Shining Armor (Don Quixote wanted to revive a past that really never was, a past with [[{{TheThemeParkVersion}} good and bad wizards, fierce giants, fabulous monsters, imaginary reigns, incredible dresses, poisonous snakes, terrible battles, incredible encounters, lovesick princess, funny dwarfs, squires made counts and a lot of outrageous adventures]]) but because he is an Hidalgo (noble). Alonso Quijano lives in the wrong century and is lampshaded in the famous [[{{AuthorFilibuster}} ''"Discourse on Arms and Letters"'', ]] Part I, Chapter 38. Cervante's genius let him realize that technological advances like the gunpowder and the artillery demanded the end of the cavalry and the initiation of new strategies and organizational forms in the armies, as well as a redefinition of the role of nobility in a society where individual courage and skill are useless, and the organization of nameless masses of soldiers (infantry) becomes important. With Don Quijote, Cervantes is saying that for him, and for all the [[{{BlueBlood}} nobility (rich or poor)]] they ''' were born in the wrong century ''' , and they must renovate or die.
* CanonImmigrant: In a way, Álvaro Tarfe may be one of the first examples, if not the first. He is a character from the non canon sequel written by Avellaneda, who appears at the end of the legitimate second part of the Quijote, the one written by Cervantes, talking to the ''real'' Don Quijote and Sancho.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Played perfectly straight: In the Chapter I, Part I, Cervantes mentions the people who lived in Don Quixote’s house: his niece, his housekeeper and a lad who helps them with the field and the marketplace… whom we’ll never see or hear of again. Obviously, Cervantes completely forgotten about this character, and didn't want to write him even in the Second Part of the novel, but in his defense, one of Don Quixote’s themes is about how silly it is to detect errors of continuity in a [[strike:literary work]] silly fictional tale.
* CliffHanger: parodied by the end of Part I, chapter 8: that chapter ends with a dramatic description of Don Quixote and [[strike:another knight]] a poor innocent bystander charging at each other... only to have the next chapter start with [[UnreliableNarrator the narrator]] telling us that he doesn't have [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis the page in the original manuscript that describes the fight]], and wasting three pages telling us how he could get the next part. The critics have said that the cliffhanger was a regular resource of the chivalry books.
* CloudCuckooLander: There is nothing else to call a man who attacks windmills.
* CombatPragmatist: [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} Bernardo del Carpio]] is one of [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quixano favorite knights, because he found the way to defeat [[{{NighInvulnerable}} Roland]] [[{{AWizardDidIt}} the enchanted]]: instead of attacking him with a sword, Bernardo just strangle him.
* ConceptsAreCheap: Deconstructed InUniverse: In the first part of the novel, DonQuixote wants to be an KnightErrant ForGreatJustice. In reality, he is TheHedonist and all his efforts are really guided to live his dreams, but he doesn't accept it because he is an {{Hypocrite}}. In the second part of the novel, his motivation changes ForHappiness. But this time DonQuixote is an honest man that must admit at the end of the novel that [[ShaggyDogStory his efforts didn’t help anyone]] and her ChivalricRomance [[FanDisillusionment dreams were shallow]].
* ContractualGenreBlindness: Sancho is very aware that the man he is following is pretty insane and often tells him so, but sometimes has to act according to his master's delusions.
* CrackIsCheaper: [[invoked]] [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quijano was a victim of this phenomenon. At chapter I Part I we learn that he has acquired a lot of chivalry books (almost three hundred), and if you think that the printing had been discovered in Europe only some years ago, it's a considerable feat. But alas! Then as now, his relatives and friends, who certainly think that this hobby is getting out of control, had no second thoughts to send a lot of his books to the bonfire, even if Don Quixote has spent a lot of money in those books:
-->''"and to such a pitch did his eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillage land to buy books of chivalry to read"''
** It should be noted that just having a few hundred books in the time in which the story was written would have been a ''huge'' expense. It's not like they had Barnes and Noble back then.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Although Don Quixote is [[CloudCuckooLander a loon]] and almost always beaten and humiliated, sometimes he shows that he's got some real balls and fighting chops (e.g., the lion episode).
* CrushingThePopulace: When Don Quixote travels to Barcelona, Sancho gets lost at night in a forest whose trees are filled with feet wearing shoes and stockings. Don Quixote calmly explains that the authorities hang outlaws by the twenties and thirties when they catch them.
* DamselInDistress: Deconstructed and PlayedForLaughs. Don Quixote believes that just about every lady he meets needs to be rescued from villains. Then, HilarityEnsues.
* {{Deconstruction}}.
* DaydreamBeliever: Quixote himself is the archetype of this. And he does not only believe in chivalry books, in Part II, Chapter LXXI, he declares that if he had lived in [[{{Homer}} Homeric times]], he could have saved Troy and Carthage by slaying Paris.
* DanBrowned: This trope is lampshaded by Cervantes... and then played for laughs. In the Preface of the Autor, Part I, Cervantes denounces [[{{DanBrowned}} authors who claim that the verses they use in the preface of the book commending that work (a common literary practice at the time) were made by personages identified as famous poets, when with a little research we easily discover they were not]], or worse yet, [[{{EpicFail}} they were illiterate]]. In a word, [[{{LampshadeHanging}} he defines this trope]] in the 17th century. And then, Cervantes proceeds to [[{{PlayedForLaughs}} make "some commendatory verses" whose authors are some wizards, knights and damsels protagonist of other chivalry books]].
* DeaderThanDisco: InUniverse: At Part II Chapter XVI, DonQuixote claims that the ChivalricRomance (and it's RealLife counterpart, [[KnightErrant knight-errantry]] is this trope and he is merely trying to bring it to life again.
-->''[[DiscoDan My desire was to bring to life again]] [[KnightErrant knight-errantry]], [[DeaderThanDisco now dead]], and for some time past, stumbling here, falling there, now coming down headlong, now raising myself up again''
* DeathByDespair: DonQuixote could not survive his FanDisillusionment.
* DeconstructiveParody: Books of chivalry are ridiculed by having their tropes applied to real, everyday life.
** The other trope deconstructed and parodied is {{Fandumb}}.
* DoorStopper: It's quite a long book, although not obscenely so. The romances of chivalry it parodies tended to be even lengthier.
* FairForItsDay: Several of the attitudes expressed by the characters are enough to make modern sensibilities cringe. Sancho, a man usually associated with being a loyal and amiable sort actually considers taking up selling people as slaves and turning 'black into gold'.
* FanDisillusionment: After two novels being a literal AscendedFanboy UpToEleven of the ChivalricRomance, DonQuixote must accept in the last chapter that the ClicheStorm that he read as the adventures of a KnightErrant is not [[DeconstructedTrope as joyous as he thought it would be]]:
--> "[[BoredWithInsanity Good news for you, good sirs, that I am no longer Don Quixote of La Mancha, but Alonso Quixano, whose way of life won for him the name of Good]]. Now am I the enemy of [[KnightInShiningArmor Amadis of Gaul]] [[FollowTheLeader and of the whole countless troop of his descendants]]; [[ClicheStorm odious to me now are all the profane stories of knight-errantry;]] [[HeelRealization now I perceive my folly]], [[TheNewRockAndRoll and the peril into which reading them brought me;]] [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime now, by God's mercy schooled into my right senses, I loathe them.]]"
* FanFiction:
** InUniverse:
*** Chapter I, part I: [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quijano has read [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} ''The tale of Don Belianis of Greece:'' ]] and notes that the author has not finished that adventure, so he planned to write a continuation of it, and it would have been a great continuation if not because he abandoned that idea to become Don Quixote (this is not an InformedAbility: In Part I, Chapter II, Don Quixote begins the story of his own heroic exploits, that will undoubtedly write a sage in the future, and in Part I, Chapter XXI, Don Quixote narrates Sancho a perfect summary of the plot and all the typical situations of a chivalry book):
-->''"He commended, however, the author's way of ending his book with the promise of that interminable adventure, [[{{Continuation}} and many a time was he tempted to take up his pen and finish it properly as is there proposed, which no doubt he would have done]], [[{{FanFicRecommendations}} and made a successful piece of work of it too]], [[{{AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder}} had not greater and more absorbing thoughts]] [[{{AscendedFanboy}} prevented him]]."''
*** At Part I, Chapter XLVIII, Don Quixote and his party meet a man [[{{EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep}} who is referred only as]] [[{{MeaningfulName}} the canon]], who knows all the rules to write a good book, in the next chapter, he confess that he [[{{Fanfic}} wrote a hundred pages of a chivalry book]], [[{{DeadFic}} but then he cites the reasons that made him desist his intent]]:
-->''"I myself, at any rate," said the canon, "[[{{DeadFic}} was once tempted to write a book of chivalry ]] [[{{FixFic}} in which all the points I have mentioned were to be observed]]; [[{{FanFic}}and if I must own the truth I have more than a hundred sheets written; and to try if it came up to my own opinion of it, I showed them to persons who were fond of this kind of reading]], [[{{ViewersAreGeniuses}} to learned and intelligent men]] as well as to [[{{ViewersAreMorons}} ignorant people who cared for nothing but the pleasure of listening to nonsense]], and from all I obtained flattering approval; nevertheless I proceeded no farther with it, [[{{SciFIGhetto}} as well because it seemed to me an occupation inconsistent with my profession]], as because I perceived that the [[{{LowestCommonDenominator}} fools are more numerous than the wise; and, though it is better to be praised by the wise few than applauded by the foolish many, I have no mind to submit myself to the stupid judgment of the silly public, to whom the reading of such books falls for the most part]]."''
** In RealLife:
*** Fanfiction of the book itself. In the 10 years between the first and second part of the novel, there were some "apocryphal" continuations, which Cervantes himself references and afterwards rejects, saying he is the original writer. Which probably makes it one of the oldest examples.
*** Also, there had been [[strike:books]] (profesional fanfictions) written in spanish for the last four hundred years, (the most recent: "Al morir Don Quijote", published in 2004). You can find some examples in the other wiki: "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_influence_of_Don_Quixote List of works influenced by Don Quixote: 'Selected adaptations in literature']]" and additional examples of AlternateUniverseFic, Continuation Fic, ElsewhereFic, OriginalFlavour, in the other (Spanish) wiki: "[[http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuaciones_del_Quijote Continuations of Quixote: 'Continuaciones del Quixote']]"
* {{Flanderization}}: In the first part of the novel, Sancho Panza gives an HurricaneOfAphorisms only ''once''. In the second part, he gives it [[RunningGag continuosly]], and also [[LamarckWasRight his wife and his daughter]].
* FolkHero
* ForgottenTrope: The novel show us an example of the Captivity Narrative when [[AuthorAvatar Ruy Pérez de Viedma]] relates all his biography in ''“The story of the Captive Captain”'', you can see more at LifeEmbellished.
* GenreKiller: Credited with killing off romances of chivalry, although, to be fair, they were already falling out of fashion and pushing DeaderThanDisco.
* GenreSavvy: Apart from the protagonist (who is WrongGenreSavvy), many other characters are familiar with chivalric tropes and [[InvokedTrope invoke]] or [[DiscussedTrope discuss them]]. Note that at the end of both volumes, Don Quixote is defeated and forced to return to his village in strict accordance with the laws of the genre.
* GentleGiant: Part I Chapter I reveals that the giant Morgante is one of the [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quixano’s favorite characters, because despite being a giant, he is [[AffablyEvil affable and well bred]].
* GiverOfLameNames: The protagonist is probably the TropeCodifier.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Inverted: Don Quixote goes mad trying to make sense of the PurpleProse that plagued the chivalry books he has read, but [[TheUnreveal there never was any reveal]] because even {{Aristotle}} [[MindScrew could not have made sense of it]].
* HeroicWannabe: Practically made this trope.
* HerosMuse: The eponymous hero fights for his lady love, whom he refers to as Dulcinea. In his mind, he elevates her to a princess and the most beautiful woman in the world, although she is in reality a peasant girl named Aldonza.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Somewhat of an UrExample. Don Quixote seems to be living in his village for years, doing nothing but hunting, reading romances of chivalry, selling his property to pay for them ([[ConspicuousConsumption books were a lot more expensive then]]) and discussing them with [[ThoseTwoGuys his friends]]. Justified, because landed gentry of the time was expected to do little else.
* HonorBeforeReason: The protagonist falls victim to this trope countless times.
* HotBlooded: Don Quixote sure makes a lot of passionate speeches, and charges forward with aplomb, later subverted when he denies chivalry with the same passion.
* HumiliationConga: Practically [[OnceAnEpisode every single chapter]] ends up being this to Quixote and Sancho.
* HurricaneOfAphorisms: Sancho Panza does this, usually so poorly that it just makes him look stupider.
* IdiotHero: If not the TropeMaker, pretty much the TropeCodifier. UpToEleven if you think that in the end when he denies chivalry, Don Quixote is portrayed as the OnlySaneMan and even as [[MessiahCreep the ideal man]].
** It's subverted: Don Quixote is not an idiot, and we know it since the very beginning of the novel. He is a very smart, intelligent, well-educated man, who is perfectly normal as long as he is not talking about his obsessions: ''"apart from the silly things which this worthy gentleman says in connection with his craze, when other subjects are dealt with, he can discuss them in a perfectly rational manner, showing that his mind is quite clear and composed; so that, provided his chivalry is not touched upon, no one would take him to be anything but a man of thoroughly sound understanding."'' Part I, chapter 30. Of course, [[{{TooDumbToLive}} when he is indulging his chivalry fantasies... well... ]]
* IfICantHaveYou: Part II, chapter LX, Claudia Jeronima and Don Vicente Tornellas, from different factions of the civil war that was plaguing Barcelona, secretly fall in love and planned to marry, but one day Claudia Jerónima learned that Don Vicente wants to marry another woman. The next day, overwhelmed and exasperated, she shot him. [[TearJerker And then she learns that he never intended to marry any other woman that Claudia]].
* ImpoverishedPatrician: [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quijano is an [[{{BlueBlood}} Hidalgo]] that still has the ancient arms of his ancestors, but has so little money that almost most of them is spent in food. What can he do? He is very smart and talented, so he could work, [[{{InherentInTheSystem}} but if he does, he will lose the few privileges he has as an hidalgo (like, to be excused to pay taxes) ]]. He is poor and bored. It does not help that he spent a lot of them in those silly chivalry books. Sure, they help him with the boredom, and the knight life is certainly exciting, but they are only absurd tales? right?
* InNameOnly: Joel Silver is threatening to produce a big-budget, "''PiratesOfTheCaribbean''-like" film about a {{Swashbuckler}} Don Quixote that [[CompletelyMissingThePoint is not crazy]] and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters fights real monsters]] from AnotherDimension.
** Ironically, Don Quixote would have preferred [[RuleOfCool this kind of adaptation]] to any other.
* TheInsomniac: Alonso Quijano is a type B, as described in Part I Chapter I: lead by his obsession to read chivalry books, he sleeps less and less while reading more and more and that sends him over the edge.
* InsanityDefense: The reason why DonQuixote is never killed (but often beaten) by the poor InnocentBystander of the day.
--> The landlord shouted to them to leave him alone, for he had already told them that he was mad, and as a madman he would not be accountable even if he killed them all.
* InWhichATropeIsDescribed: [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Played Straight with Almost All the Chapters of the Two Parts because the Beginning of a Chapter Summarizes the Chapter's Events]], but then [[{{InvertedTrope}} Inverted]] in Some Chapters that Do Not Summarize Anything:
-->** Part II, Chapter 70 WHICH FOLLOWS SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY
-->** Part II, Chapter 66 WHICH TREATS OF WHAT HE WHO READS WILL SEE, OR WHAT HE WHO HAS IT READ TO HIM WILL HEAR
* KnightInShiningArmor and KnightErrant: What Don Quixote thinks he is, and thereby thoroughly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs.]]
* LifeEmbellished: [[AuthorAvatar Ruy Pérez de Viedma]] relates all his biography in ''“The story of the Captive Captain”''. He was a handsome captive captain who wanted to escape the Moors and was helped by a Zoraida, a beautiful moor princess who wanted to convert to Christianity, organized a successful evasion to Spain, was well received by his powerful and rich relatives and married Zoraida. Cervantes was a captive who failed all his evasion intents, his family paid his rescue and always was an ImpoverishedPatrician.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Cervantes (only referred in the book as "The second author") says that the book was based on some manuscripts he found and made translate to spanish by an arab translator.
** Written by some Arabian named Cide Hamete Benengeli (or Sidi Ahmed bin Engeli, as it would be rendered today) whose first name, "Cide", could be translated as "Mister", and whoselast name is [[PunnyName a pun]] on "berenjena" (eggplant/aubergine).
*** This trope is parodied, because a lot of chivalry books have his authors claim that they are based in an old manuscript found in an ancient pyramid or another ruined building in some faraway country, written in an exotic language by a wise, famed wizard who favored the hero of the novel. Those claims are made to feign that the chivalry book was inspired by real events. Cervantes twist this and uses it to a comic effect, explaining that the next part of the novel was found in some phamplets and papers (only a few years old) found in Alcana de Toledo (a real city in Spain) in a silk mercer store, written in Arabic (a fairly known language in Spain) by a (foolish) boy who didn't know what was written in them and so sold the papers to Cervantes for peanuts. If we include the funny name of the wizard and the fact that the [[{{UnreliableNarrator}} second author, the translator and Cide Hamete Benengeli are always making comments about the book]], we can see that Cervantes want us to admit that all this tale is a long sequence of lies and nonsense... just like all the chivalry books.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Critics have counted six hundred characters in the book (a lot of them unnamed).
* LongList: This trope is played straight and parodied:
** Played straight at the Preface of the Author, Part I: a friend of Cervantes advices him to get [[{{LongList}} a book that quotes famous authors from A to Z]] [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} and just insert the examples in his own book, so Cervantes can feign that he knows all those authors, because some]] [[{{ViewersAreMorons}} readers are simple enough to believe that the author can use all those quotes in any book]].
** Parodied at Chapter XVIII, Part I. Since {{Homer}}, the description of the forces and the generals of an army was an important part of the heroic literature, and books of chivalry were pleased to develop it, (Amadis of Gaul has a similar scene). In that chapter, Don Quixote describes what he sees at two contending armies to Sancho, whom only can see… two droves of sheep.
* LoonyFan: Sanson Carrásco presents himself as one fan of DonQuixote and discuss with him and Sancho the {{SeriesContinuityError}}s, and [[PityingPerversion wants to help that poor, mad fool]] to regain sanity. HilarityEnsues.
* LordErrorProne: Pretty much the TropeMaker.
* LoveMartyr: Part II, chapter LX, Don Vicente Tornellas has been shot by his fiancée Claudia Jeronima because she believed that Don Vicente wanted to marry another woman. Don Vicente?s last words are to tell her that he was innocent, never intended to marry any other woman, [[{{Tearjerker}} that he considers himself lucky to talk with her in his last moments of life, and then his last act before dying is to give Jeronima his hand and ask her to make him his husband]].
* MadDreamer
* MayDecemberRomance: DonQuixote is around 50; Dulcinea, being an unmarried peasant girl, is probably less than 20. Not that she knows anything about her pretender's interest, though.
** Deconstructed with Altisidora and DonQuixote in the second part: Altisidora, a 14 year old maiden at the Duke’s palace, pretends to be in love with DonQuixote. He stoically supports her [[ClingyJealousGirl teasing and mean pranks]] because he believes [[SmittenTeenageGirl she’s in love with him]], but he never attempts anything because he wants to be loyal to Dulcinea and is very happy when he abandons her and the palace. Being an honest man, he confesses to Sancho that Altisidora’s felings caused him ''more confusion than pity'', showing us how awkward and foolish would be this kind of relationship in reality.
* MeaningfulName: Dulcinea, the name Don Quixote gives to his random LoveInterest, could be translated as "Sweety". For the others, see PunnyName. Another example: Doctor Pedro Recio (could be translated as "Doctor Hard Rock"), a doctor who insists that Sancho, as a governor, must have a very strict diet. There are many, many others. The very name itself, ''quixote'' (Modern Spanish ''quijote'') means "cuisse", the thighplate of a knightly armour.
* TheMusical: ''ManOfLaMancha'', with showtune standard "The Impossible Dream".
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Countless times, Don Quixote's chivalric antics make things only worse.
* NoFourthWall: Numerous characters in the second part recognize DonQuixote and Sancho Panza by having read the first part.
** Considering that this was written in the 17th century, it's a textbook case of a trope [[OlderThanTheyThink used ''avant la lettre'']].
* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Don Quixote travels to Barcelona, a province of the [[TheEmpire Spanish Empire]] facing a CivilWar. [[ButtMonkey Sancho get lost at night in a forest whose trees are filled with feet wearing shoes and stocking]]. [[CasualDangerDialog DonQuixote calmly explains that]] [[CrushingThePopulace the authorities hang outlaws by twenties and thirties when they catch them]].
* OlderThanTheyThink:
** InUniverse: This is only one of the CommonFanFallacies [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quixano falls into in the first chapter of the novel, showing us his descent from Fanboy to Fandumb:
*** in Part I, Chapter I: [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} Bernardo del Carpio]] is one of Alonso Quixano's favorite knights, because he found the way to defeat [[{{NighInvulnerable}} Roland]] [[{{AWizardDidIt}} the enchanted]]: instead of attacking him with a sword, [[{{CombatPragmatist}} Bernardo simply strangled Roland]]… Cool, isn’t it? [[{{TheOldestOnesInTheBook}} But not as cool as the first time this tale was told]], [[{{UnreliableNarrator}} as our narrator]] [[{{LampshadeHanging}} remind us]],
*** In Part I, Chapter I: The giant Morgante is one of [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quixano’s favorite characters, because despite being a giant, (and in the chivalry books all giants are arrogant and angry), he is affable and well bred… It’s cool, isn’t it? the whole point is that Alonso Quixano think’s [[{{ArchetypalCharacter}} this kind of character]] is original of his beloved chivalry books, but really [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Christopher it’s not]].
* OnlySaneMan: Sancho. And even then, he still willingly follows Quixote and even believes some of the ridiculous things he's told, because he's a simple peasant who doesn't know any better.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Lampshaded: In the first part, it's very clear that Sancho Panza is a naïve simpleton. In the second part, Sancho suddenly says very intelligent things to his wife. [[{{LiteraryAgentHypothesis}} One of the "narrators" of this tale]], seeing this inconsistence, decides to [[{{LampshadeHanging}} warn us:]] '' "The translator of this history, when he comes to write this fifth chapter, says that he considers it apocryphal, because in it Sancho Panza speaks in a style unlike that which might have been expected from his limited intelligence, and says things so intelligent that he does not think it possible he could have conceived them; however, desirous of doing what his task imposed upon him, he was unwilling to leave it untranslated, and therefore he went on to say":'' This could be considered the beginning of Sancho's slow transformation into a [[SimplemindedWisdom wiser person]].
* PityingPerversion: The Barber and the Curate, two MoralGuardians, and later LoonyFan Sanson Carrásco, whose sincere desire to help that poor fool, DonQuixote and cure his madness is sabotaged by this attitude, rendering all of them into ThresholdGuardians. ([[NotSoDifferent Also, all three do things to help him that could be easily described as "crazy"]])
* PunnyName: In a 17th century's pun, Quixote means "cuisse", the piece of armor covering the thigh. Modern Spanish form is ''quijote''.
** DonQuixote's real name, Alonso Quijano, is a pun on "quijada" (jaw), as he's also a rather skinny guy.
** Panza means "belly", specifically a big one. Accordingly, Sancho is a BigEater.
** Rocinante comes from "rocín", still used today in Spanish to name any ugly, skinny or generally bad-quality horse.
*** Even better: Rocinante is a contraction from "rocín antes", which means that it was a "rocín" before.
* PurpleProse: Parodied and Lampshaded: Cervantes achieved the rare miracle of having a florid style that is clearly understandable. But he recognized and denounced this trope:
** Cervantes denounces this trope in the books of chivalry: We all know that purple prose is [[{{SuckinessIsPainful}} annoying to those who read it]], but in the chapter I part I, Cervantes ensures us that Alonso Quijano [[{{BrownNote}} went crazy]] [[{{ImpossibleTask}} because he tried to understand ]] what the authors meant, and he [[{{TakeThat}} imitates the style of one in particular]]. [[{{SchmuckBait}} You can find the quote at the click in the link ... if you dare. ]]
** Another example is obtained in Chapter II, Part I: Don Quixote has begun his lefting his home through a back door and now travels the countryside, [[{{GlorySeeker}} thinking about]] [[{{FamedInStory}} how some wise wizard will write the beginning of his adventure]]. Don Quixote uses a style perhaps not as exaggerated as some examples of purple prose, but certainly is overdeveloped and fancy. You can find the quote at the link of this trope.
* RandomEventsPlot: Given that the first part of the novel is a DeconstructiveParody of ChivalricRomance, and those books were not more than a KnightErrant in the road reacting to the events that happened to him, the first part is this (the second part has a plot in [[DamselInDistress Dulcinea’s rescue]]). Only that instead of being boring or confusing, Cervantes aimed, and was able, to reproduce the feel of RealLife in his book.
* RealityEnsues: This is what happens when an aging nobleman with little fighting skills and crappy armaments imagines himself a knight-errant.
* RetCon: In Part II, Cervantes tried to correct some of the most glaring continuity errors of the first book, particularly the mysterious disappearance of Sancho's donkey.
* SarcasticDevotee: Sancho Panza
* SatireParodyPastiche: Cervantes, both in the prologue and in the the novel itself parodies the way contemporary writers wrote, satirized characters, books, made allusions to many, MANY other works and made a huge impact at the time it was printed.
* ScheherazadeGambit: Sancho tries to do this to Quixote to keep him from charging against a watermill (Quixote had something with mills). He forgets about what he was telling.
** It's actually even funnier than that: the story he tells Quixote was a common children's story of the time, and is supposed to work like a lullaby, repeating a useless element over and over until the kid goes to sleep.
* ScreeningTheCall: If Quixote's reading induced insanity is his CallToAdventure, then the attempt to burn his books is an attempt to Screen The Call.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Deconstructed in the [[ShowWithinAShow Novel Within A Novel ''"The Ill-Advised Curiosity"'']] where [[TooDumbToLive Anselmo]] asks his best friend Lotario to test the fidelity of his wife, Camila. In any other story, Lucinda will pass the test and everyone will have lived HappilyEverAfter. In the novel, Lucinda and Lotario became lovers [[KillThemAll causing the tragic deaths of the three]].
* SeriesContinuityError: For a book that only has one continuation, there are various examples of those errors. Then again, Cervantes was mocking [[{{FanDumb}}those fans who put too much attention to continuity]]… There are two types:
** Lampshaded InUniverse:
*** Chapter I, part I: [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quijano has some continuity questions about [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} ''The tale of Don Belianis of Greece:'' ]]
-->[[{{ItJustBugsMe}} ''"He was not at all easy about the wounds which Don Belianis gave and took]], [[{{FridgeLogic}} because it seemed to him that]], [[{{WildMassGuessing}} great as were the surgeons who had cured him]], [[{{PlotHole}} he must have had his face and body]] [[{{NegativeContinuity}} covered all over with seams and scars"'']].
** Played straight In the book:
*** [[{{PlotHole}} Sancho’s donkey disappearance]]
*** [[{{ChuckCunninghamSyndrome}} The lad who helps them with the field and the marketplace]].
*** [[{{WhatHappenedToTheMouse}} Those hundred crowns that Sancho found in the valise in the Sierra Morena]]
* SeriousBusiness: This is the theme of the novel: The first part, only Don Quixote is affected with the chivalry lifestyle, but in the second, a sizable portion of the Spanish population takes it far more seriously than it should be. There are various examples:
** InUniverse:
*** '''Don Quixote''': Type I: The very last stage of [[strike:Don Quixote]] Alonso Quixano obsession with chivalry books and the first stage of his true madness (and also to show exactly how out of touch with reality he really is): Part I, Chapter I shows us how important are the chivalry books for him: he will have given his housekeeper and his niece to kick that traitor of Ganelon. ([[BetrayalTropes Ganelon]] was the guy who betrayed [[Literature/TheSongOfRoland Roland at Roncesvalles]] and who becomes, with [[KingArthur Mordred]] and [[{{Jesus}} Judas]], one of the great exemplars of treachery for the mediæval period).
*** '''The Duke and the Duchess:''' They spent a lot of money and organize truly MassiveMultiplayerScam (Dulcinea’s enchantment has all the people in their castle, the Insula Barataria involucres all the people of a town) only to laugh at DonQuixote and Sancho.
*** '''[[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname The Cousin]]''', a KnowNothingKnowItAll who is a researcher of LittleKnownFacts and [[InformedAbility author of three books (still not published)]]: [[SeriousBusiness All of great utility and no less entertainment to the nation. With quotes from more than twenty five authors]].
* ShallowLoveInterest: Aldonza Lorenzo a.k.a Dulcinea Del Toboso, who isn't even aware of her status as love interest of DonQuixote.
** This trope is parodied and exaggerated with Dulcinea Del Toboso, a lover that DonQuixote ''imagined'' from a peasant girl called Aldonza Lorenzo. [[ShadowArchetype She represents for him all that is lovable about a woman without any of the defects of a real person]], and [[TheDulcineaEffect he only imagined her so he can undertake adventures in her name]]. She becomes the [[ExaggeratedTrope illogical extreme of this trope]], because nobody is more shallow than a ShadowArchetype.
* ShoutOut: Hundreds upon hundreds of them, although many would be unrecognizable to the modern reader because of WeirdAlEffect.
** Chapter I part I mentions {{Aristotle}}, philosopher widely regarded as the greatest abstract thinker of Occidental Civilization. Even he has no chance to make sense of the purple prose that plagued Chivalry Books. Also in the Chapter III part II, Don Quixote's opinion about history and poetry reflects the theory exposed in Aristotle's ''Poetics''.
* ShowWithinAShow (in Part 1, a number of short stories told by other characters). For example, "The Ill-Advised Curiosity" is a true novel within the novel, and [[ThoseTwoGuys the priest]] reads it to all the guests in the inn completely through two chapters of the first part.
* SimplemindedWisdom: Sancho Panza has this trait.
* {{Slapstick}}: And charging against a windmill is just in chapter 8 '''of 126 chapters!!!'''
* SmallReferencePools: This trope is defined and lampshaded by Cervantes in the Preface of the Author, Part I, [[{{TakeThat}} denouncing a common author trick]]: [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} Any Spanish author of XVII century only needs to mention the most obvious and world-renowned people or facts. And he doesn't even need to know those facts, he could only research ]] [[{{LongList}} a book that quotes famous authors from A to Z]] and just insert the examples in his own book, because some [[{{ViewersAreMorons}} readers are simple enough to believe that the author can use all those quotes in any book]].
* StopHelpingMe: Many characters (most memorably Andres, the flogged boy) react this way to Don Quixote's interference.
* SweetPollyOliver: Dorotea, from the first part.
* TakeThat: '''AND HOW!''' Cervantes uses his book to attack several people and institutions of the XVII century, always in a funny manner:
** Unfortunately for him, Cervantes was not a very known author when he published "Don Quixote" at 1605, and given the [[{{SmallNameBigEgo}} extremely difficult Spanish literary environment of his time]], he didn't get any commendatory verses for his book from any (famous) author, so he wrote a dialog in the Preface of the Author, Part I, where Cervantes explains this setback and despairs to publish "Don Quixote". His friend advised him to pretend that Cervantes has done [[{{ShownTheirWork}} extensive research to impress his audience]], when [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} in fact he will take advantage of some tricks ]] [[{{TakeThat}} used by several renowned Spanish writers of his time]] (Cervantes never mentions names so as not to disturb famous Spanish authors like Lope de Vega).
*** The first advice of his friend is [[{{DanBrowned}} to make himself (Cervantes) the commendatory verses, and then claim they were made from some famous or powerful characters of his time, even claiming that some of them were famous poets]], when [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} the truth is that a lot of the powerful Spanish people of his time could not be poets, and even were illiterate]].
*** The second advice of his friend is [[{{AltumVidetur}} to include sentences of Latin that seem to be profound ]] [[{{ShownTheirWork}} (and so impress his lectors)]], but [[{{ViewersAreMorons}} in reality, ]] [[{{SmallReferencePools}} those Latin sentences were very common and any author of his time could find them with very little effort]].
*** Cervantes also mocks the authors attributed to another author some famous line by way of PopculturalOsmosis (in the Spain of the 17th century), [[{{BeamMeUpScotty}} despite the fact that those lines were never uttered by them]]. Cervantes’s friend mentions a line that a lot of people attributed to Horace, but this [[{{ShownTheirWork}} friend really has done the research]], so he mentions ''"or whoever said it"''.
*** Last but no least, in his prologue of part I, Cervante’s friend mentions a common author trick of his time: [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} Any spanish author of XVII century only needs to mention the most obvious and world-renowned people or facts. And he doesn´t even need to know those facts, he could only research ]] [[{{LongList}} a book that quotes famous authors from A to Z]] and just insert the examples in his own book, because some [[{{ViewersAreMorons}} readers are simple enough to believe that the author can use all those quotes in any book]]. Critics have said that this last reference was an attack to Lope de Vega, the most influential Spanish playwright and writer, and very successful and famous in their own time. (Cervantes himself was not successful, but he is one of the most influential universal writers).
** An attack to the [[{{WeirdAlEffect}} (then) famous ]] chivalry book's author Feliciano de Silva's composition, ''"[[{{SarcasmMode}} for their lucidity of style and complicated conceits were as pearls in his sight]]"'', Feliciano's style was an example of [[{{PurpleProse}} how to sacrifice Utility in the altar of Eloquence ]], [[{{DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment}} writing sentence after sentence of redundant synonyms once and again]], [[{{MindScrew}} making it so confuse that you cannot even try to comprehend it]].
** In Chapter I Part I, the narrator notes that [[Literature/TheSongOfRoland the history of Reinaldos de Montalban mentions]] [[{{CriticalResearchFailure}} an idol]] [[{{YouFailReligiousStudiesForever}} of Mahomet made of gold]].
* TechnicalPacifist
* TheAllegedSteed: Rocinante. So much so that his name is synonymous with busted old nags in Spain.
* TheDulcineaEffect (pretty much the TropeMaker -and TropeNamer- for this.)
* TheGhost: There are two examples:
** Played straight with Aldonza Lorenzo, a young peasant girl from a town called Toboso, who is blissfully unaware that Don Quixote's had a crush on her. She never appeared in neither parts of the novel, only was referred to by other characters.
** Parodied by Dulcinea del Toboso, the imaginary love interest of Don Quixote. Since the first part of the novel, Don Quixote imagines her as a beatiful noblewoman who lives in a castle, or in other words, a person completely different from Aldonza Lorenzo. This imaginary entity is a literal ghost, but it's mentioned so many times across the novel that she can be considered the third protagonist besides Don Quixote and Sancho. Besides, in the second part, one of the plot points is Don Quixote's quest to disenchant Dulcinea and to find her at last, even when he knows he imagined her, this is another proof of Don Quixote's madness.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Pedro Perez, The priest, and Maese Nicholas, The barber. Better known as "The priest and the barber", two guys from the same town as Don Quixote, who are fond of chivalry books, like Don Quixote, and that are completely sane, unlike Don Quixote, and... well, you would not find any other personality trait in them.
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: [[invoked]] Alonso Quijano and his friends [[{{ThoseTwoGuys}} the curate and the barber]] were [[{{Fanboy}} victims of this phenomenon]] and in the very first chapter of part I we learn that they had a lot of discussions about [[{{WhoWouldWin}} who had been the better knight]]... Keep in mind this book was written more than four hundred years ago!
* UnreliableNarrator: Several layers of this, actually.
** Lampshaded: In the very first paragraph, Don Quixote's literary portrait has the narrator NOT telling us the name of Don Quixote's town, and the narrator admits he doesn't know very well if his name was Quixada, Quesada or Quexana. For the people of the seventeen century, this was an infringement of a very well known rule of the literary portrait, and so they immediately had the real impression that the author was a liar. Also, [[{{LiteraryAgentHypothesis}} the original author (Cide Hamete Benengeli) and the Translator (an anonymous moor)]] comment the text when the plot is being implausible, and the second author (Cervantes), [[{{SuspiciouslySpecificDenial}} constantly remind us that this is a true history]]. All these tricks show that Cervantes clearly want the reader realizes that this tale cannot be true.
*** Not to mention the fact that the so called original author has an Arabic name. At that time in Spain, Arabs were thought to be liars.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The Captive's Tale is loosely based on the author's own life.
* VictimizedBystander: Most of the people Don Quixote encounters fall in this trope, espacialy Sancho.
* WalkingTheEarth: Well, they try to.
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Don Quixote perceives this as a [[{{CourtlyLove}} common theme for a knight and his lady]]. Part II, Chapter XXXII:
-->''" I am in love, for no other reason than that it is incumbent on knights-errant to be so; but though I am, I am no carnal-minded lover, but one of the chaste, platonic sort".''
** All the first part of the novel, Sancho has ride with Don Quixote [[StandardHeroReward under the promise of a governorship]]. At chapter VII of the second part, Sancho demands a salary for his work. [[GenreSavvy Don Quixote claims that he had never read a Chivalry book where a squire would get a wage and he will never disturb the ancient usage of Knight – Errantry]], so he invokes this trope telling Sancho:
--> ''"and bear in mind, my son, that a good hope is better than a bad holding, and a good grievance better than a bad compensation"''
* WackyWaysideTribe: The last chapters of the First Part are dedicated to solve a RomanticPlotTumor, reading a [[ShowWithinAShow NovelWithinANovel named ''"The Ill-Advised Curiosity"'']] and to [[ForgottenTrope hear the tale of the Captive Captain]], leaving Don Quixote as a mere spectator in his own book. In the Second Part In the Second Part Cervantes makes a AuthorsSavingThrow when Don Quixote opines:
--> ''"...and I know not what could have led [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis the author to have recourse to]] [[ShowWithinAShow novels]] and [[RomanticPlotTumor irrelevant stories]], [[ItsAllAboutMe when he had so much to write about in mine; no doubt he must have gone by]] [[{{Filler}} the proverb 'with straw or with hay, &c.,' for by merely setting forth my thoughts, my sighs, my tears, my lofty purposes, my enterprises]], [[DoorStopper he might have made a volume as large, or larger than all the works of El Tostado]] [[hottip:*:Alfonso de Madrigal, philosopher whose works "have more than twenty volumes.".]] would make up"''.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: First line: "In a village of La Mancha the name of which I have no desire to recall." It's even lampshaded in the very last chapter: Part II, chapter 74: '' "Such was the end of the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, whose village Cide Hamete would not indicate precisely, in order to leave all the towns and villages of La Mancha to contend among themselves for the right to adopt him and claim him as a son, as the seven cities of Greece contended for Homer".''
** Which, guess what, is what happened.
* WideEyedIdealist: Quixote.
** Well, it is where the word 'quixotic' comes from...
** This trope is severely deconstructed: In the first part, DonQuixote cares more for fulfilling his fantasies than for anyone else. He confides that the farmer Haduldo will stop floggin the boy Andrés and that the Galley slaves he liberates will be grateful enough to make him a favor. (They´re not). His actions make him the original LordErrorProne. In the second part is even worse: he really acts ForHappiness and after some MassiveMultiplayerScam aventures that convince him he is a real KnightErrant he must face the sad fact that he has not helped anyone and therefore, all those ChivalricRomance tropes were BlatantLies. This is so heartbreaking that he becomes BoredWithInsanity and dies. Being called ''"Quixotic"'' is not always a good thing.
* AWizardDidIt: All over the place in the books Don Quixote reads, so naturally when reality blatantly deviates from how he imagines it, he assumes that enchanters are behind it.
** Much more literally, when the priest and the barber burn Don Quixote's books, they tell him that a wizard stole them. Don Quixote goes off to find the wizard.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Probably the TropeMaker.
* YouWatchTooMuchX: Even when Quixote could be the UrExample and TropeMaker for this trope, in the novel this is a UnbuiltTrope: the StockPhrase never appears in the novel, and Don Quixote is not GenreSavvy but WrongGenreSavvy: When in some situation Don Quixote comments about how similar situation have happened in the tales he has read in his chivalry books , the people hearing him don’t answer with “You read too much X”. Even so, there are some examples that are very near to this situation, and the fact that Don Quixote read too much and that drove him to believe that he was a knight errand is the core of the novel, and is lampshaded by the narrator since the very beginning (Chapter I Part I).
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