Don Quixote
Literary character
Cervantes’s knight errant. Imported for the windmills, and made to suffer the indignity of comparison with a Bristol social entrepreneur.
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Connections
Linguistic associations
- STI character glossary (1 passage)
Literary echoes
- The windmills of Don Quixote character object (1 passage)
From the books (1 passage)
…came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that there are on the plain, and as soon as Don Quixote saw them he said to his squire, "Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose…