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After reading Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes, I came to the conclusion that Don Quixote was really a nutty old fool. I remember when I was little and my family used to tell me, “you’ve watched too many movies”, because I used to imitate things I saw in the movies. In Don Quixote’s case, he had read too many books. He lived his life according to his readings, thinking that everything had a happy ending. According to the story, “he spent whole nights from sundown to sunup and his days from dawn to dusk in poring over his books, until, finally, from so little sleep and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind” (Cervantes, 2681). This guy read so much that he could have literally become a walking and breathing anthology.
His madness is clearly depicted throughout his journey in fulfilling his destiny to become a Knight. At first, he stayed at an inn that he thinks was a castle. There he meets two lovely prostitutes which continuously mock him by playing along with his game. Clearly, this act shows that Don Quixote had become mad. Other instinct was when he fought the sheep’s thinking that they were actually men. After, in which he loses his self-respect and his teeth from the stones thrown by the farmers. Not saying that he had any form of dignity before this. All in all, Don Quixote is undoubtedly a crazy old fool that had entered a period in his life which was encompassed by childish and mentally unstable acts.