Society is another influence of the human condition on a personal level. The way that people see you and more importantly how you perceive the world is greatly important. Don Quijote is called the first modern novel and its story about a man who reads books about knights and chivalry and starts believing that he was a knight in a world that was not the medieval times. Yet, this fiction is a lot like how today is with the consumption of news and with the fact that with no filter people are just reading any news that they come across regardless if it's true or not and with that idea that you can be reading fake news but thinking that is the content is real without question is a problem that is developing in society. The main character of Don Quixote can easily be set into modern day with the consumption of alternative facts setting the world view. …show more content…
As Boyagoda says in this text about Don Quixote “It’s in those opening chapters that Cervantes establishes the crazy-making nature of his protagonist’s addiction to 16th-century Spanish novels of chivalry” (Boyagoda). In the very beginning, we see this and it is a comic sight because the character tries to use whatever that is lying in his house to make a suit of armor and the people of his house are confused and try to curve his madness to no avail. He is too far