Don Quixote’s imagination of his own world often leads him to unpleasant situations and even displeasing outcomes in the real world. In Chapter 8, Don Quixote and his now named squire, Sancho Panza come upon “thirty or forty windmills standing on the plain” (Cervantes 63). Don Quixote believes that the windmills are just giants with long arms, but Sancho replies that there are not giants just windmills. As Don Quixote went rushing into the windmill, the windmill caught him and his lance, and they went rolling (Cervantes 64). Afterwards, Don Quixote sees windmills and not giants, even though his squire already warned him beforehand. Don Quixote believes he is able to defend any and every one. As he sees these giants, he wants to fight them because then he will be ‘saving mankind’ in a way; where this is also defining his attitude towards chivalry in that he must protect and be courageous. His good intentions leads to a bad outcome and the readers notice this time and time again in as the novel progresses.
As Part 1 progresses, the readers become more aware of Don Quixote’s view and
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He proclaims that “knight errantry behold the most extraordinary and wondrous sights” (Cervantes 353). From this statement this is quite right to him. Though much of what he experiences is his fault because he sees events and people for not who they really are but what he sees in his own perception. Don Quixote starts to provide a comparison for letters and bearing arms; where letter are to suppose to “interpret and enforce the law’ (Cervantes 354); whereas arms enforce the law and bring about peace which is often the goal of war (Cervantes 355). While others are listening to him explain this idea, the fact that Don Quixote believes himself as a knight-errant did not cross their mind because Quixote was making logically