Sancho Panza As A Foil To Don Quixote

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By having Sancho Panza serve as a foil to Don Quixote, Cervantes emphasizes how Sancho sees reality and Don Quixote imagines things. For example in chapter 18 when it talks about Don Quixote war between him and another army. As stated in chapter eighteen it says, “ Every minute of every hour his imagination was filled with those battles, enchantments, adventures, extravagances, love, and everything he said thought or did was channeled into such affairs”(pg 33). Cervantes is saying that every imagination Don Quixote had was based on battles from the book he read because he was idealistic and lived the life of an idealistic person. Another example can be when both Don Quixote and Sancho drank the ointment and only worked on the knight which was