![]() So, the new knight sets off on an adventure with a ridiculous new costume and the hope of committing heroic deeds. As for himself, he bestows the name Don Quixote because it rhymes with the name of the famous knight “Lanzarote,” also known as Lancelot. The knight decides he needs to have a maiden, so, in his imagination, he converts a young villager named Aldonza Lorenzo, who he was once in love with, into the lovely Lady Dulcinea del Toboso. Alonso finds some old armor and prepares an old horse from the stable, which he names Rocinante. He loves reading stories about knights and fantastic stories about chivalry, princesses, magicians, enchanted castles In fact, he is so involved with these fantasies that he slowly starts to lose touch with reality and begins to believe that he is one of these fictional heroes. He is about 50 years old and lives in a settlement near the La Mancha region in Spain towards the beginning of the 17th century.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |