Cervantes has used various satire techniques to target the audience some of them are exaggeration, verbal irony, incongruity, and parody. The audience of the satire, to whom the satire is targeted, is those people in country who considered romantic tales of chivalry too much well received, admired and popular. Cervantes found these stories of chivalry totally ridiculous because they portrayed an imaginary world that was no longer existed and would have never existed if it wasn’t presented in glowing colors by storytellers. In Don Quixote, Cervantes paro¬dies romantic tales of chivalry by exaggeration. The audience of the satire to whom the satire is targeted prefigured them by seeing Quixote trying to dress himself up like the knights in the tales, but his armor is rust-brown, his only horse is a nag, and all above it his squire is a plump peasant never particularly never abide by his master but rather feel like surrendering his life for his master. Cervantes at many places used exaggeration to target the romantic tales of chivalry. The nar-rator in the story mentions that Don Quixote has read so many romantic tales that "his brain dried up." A lot of section from such romantic …show more content…
The target of satire or the audience to whom the satire is implicitly is intended to those people who show off their academic de¬grees. But underneath it all, Cervantes' satire is rooted in incongruity that arises from the clash between the romantic and the real. In this sense, the novel goes be¬yond its specific targets to universal hu¬man qualities. We can laugh at Quixote, but there is something of him in all of us. Like Quixote, who wished to live before his time, we all have dreams that cannot come true. Yet we cannot relinquish these dreams without giving up an important part of