Don Quixote is the most unusual of all the epics that we have read thus far. The hero of the epic is Don Quixote but he is a man who is imitating the deeds of famous and heroic knights. While the other epics previously studied have heroes who are strong, physically fit men of noble birth, Don is a delusional 50 year old, low born noble from La Mancha, Spain. He read obsessively about chivalry and it is through his pursuit of reviving it that he attempts to protect damsels, widows and orphans. Unlike the other heros we have studied, Quixote becomes known throughout the land for his misadventures rather than his heroic deeds. While he is the story’s hero and protagonist, he is not a very good one. A difference to the epic hero structure is