Don Quixote is a novel by Miguel de Cervantes that follows the adventures of the self-created knight-errant, Don Quixote, and his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through Spain during the time period of the seventeenth century. As the play goes on, the audience comes to realize that the relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza is a really important one because Sancho brings out the realism out Don Quixote. The relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza is a really important one because it also puts a spotlight over the topic of social leveling, specifically social prejudice and how social prejudice acts caused characters to treat Don Quixote and Sancho Panza differently.
The relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza is a really important one because their friendship is depicted across social class lines in Spain during the 17th century, where strict social orders were in place. The relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza allowed Sancho Panza to bring out the realism out Don Quixote through his personality because he is a realist. Sancho is good for Don Quixote and guides him along their journey. Quixote and Panza are complete opposites. Don Quixote would get caught up in his chivalrous readings while Panza was known as a rude
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that takes place in the story of Don Quixote. When the narrator talks about how Don Quixote is going to ask his neighbor, Sancho Panza, to become his quire he says that, “..Don Quixote approached a farmer who was a neighbor of his, a good man—if that title can be given to someone who is poor..” (Cervantes, 69). Cervantes is saying this shows readers that during this particular era in time society was organized into different levels and that people already had preconceived notions of others based off of their social