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This paper analyzes the main themes anad relationships between the characters of Don Quixote. It mainly examines the relationship between the knight and his squire. The characters balance each other within their relationship. While Don Quixote wishes to sally forth for glory, Sancho Panza looks forward to the wealth they will acquire. When the knight is brave, the squire is cowardly. It concludes that the differences in their educations (due mainly to class) also seperate them, and create a balance in their relationship.

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"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away" (Byron 93). In typical burlesque manner, Cervantes creates the relationship between Don Quixote and his squire, Sancho, by treating the lofty formal relationships of chivalric romances in a low style (Frye 84). As opposed to creating an Arthurian knight and squire with the official association they shared, Cervantes writes their relationship as a friendship, with each character's strengths complimenting the others weaknesses. The differences between the characters are exemplified in their motives for sallying forth, their presentation as a hero and a coward, and the variation in their educations. When one character is found to be lacking in a particular trait, the other compliments him by having an abundance of asset in that same area."

Tags:burlesque, Cervantes, knight, novel, squire, Don, Quixote, character, education, class

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The purpose of this research is to examine the theme of criminal justice in Spanish literature, particularly in regard to the treatment of women, with an emphasis on Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega. The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas that emerge in the action of the play and then to discuss how these ideas articulate an attitude toward the phenomenon and enactment of criminal justice and the social position and role of women in Spain, past and present.

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"The purpose of this research is to examine the theme of criminal justice in Spanish literature, particularly in regard to the treatment of women, with an emphasis on Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega. The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas that emerge in the action of the play and then to discuss how these ideas articulate an attitude toward the phenomenon and enactment of criminal justice and the social position and role of women in Spain, past and present.
Based on fact, Fuente Ovejuna is set in fifteenth-century provincial Spain, at the moment of history (1476) when the Spanish monarchy was in the sixth year of consolidating its government institutions under Ferdinand of Castile and Isabella of Aragon. In the background of this project were several centuries of war among various feudal kingdoms of the Iberian ..."

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"Omar Cabezas, in Fire From the Mountain, portrays his own coming of age as a member of the revolutionary Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The book is essentially an effort to show the human side of an evolving Sandinista, to humanize the hazy and frightening image of the Nicaraguan revolutionary which is posited by enemies of the Sandinista revolution. The book is also meant to offer a non-romantic portrait of the same group, countering the image presented by those who would paint revolution as an entirely glorious and endlessly inspiring adventure.


Cabezas tells us offhandedly --- in the immediate aftermath of a description of a popular pool hall in the author's hometown of Leon --- that "I remember it was during Holy Week that I joined Frente Sandinista, right after I graduated from high school" (p. 15). The reader is unprepared for such information..."

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This paper summarizes the book and gives an opinion of the content. It discusses why Las Casas' account of how the Spanish treated the natives is a darkly disturbing book that will remain in the reader's mind for a long time to come. It explains why this book sheds a dark light on the Spanish colonial practices.

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"The Introduction of "Account" chronicles Las Casas' life, and introduces just how he came to champion the natives of the Indies. Las Casas opens his history with a compelling statement, compelling the reader to continue reading. "Everything that has happened since the marvellous discovery of the Americas " from the short-lived initial attempts of the Spanish to settle there, right down to the present day " has been so extraordinary that the whole story remains quite incredible to anyone who has not experienced it at first hand" (Las Casas 3). Right away, the reader must turn the pages to find out more about this extraordinary story, and discover just why Las Casas became such an advocate for the natives. As he recounts the history of the area, the reader becomes aware of the horrors committed by the Spaniards, and begins to understand just what led this man to fight so heroically for the natives."

Tags:spain, colonial, native

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This paper discusses and analyzes the book, "When I was Puerto Rican," by Esmeralda Santiago. Specifically, it answers five questions about the book based on the reading and sociological principles. It looks at how Esmeralda Santiago's autobiography, "When I was Puerto Rican", is a compelling story about the culture, mores, and societal influences that all rained down on a young girl torn between two worlds. Negi, a young Esmeralda, searches for her identity in the book, and as she does, she paints a graphic sociological picture of two cultures in two different places that eventually meld into one coherent and strong young woman.

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"There are several theoretical perspectives in the book, including interactionism, feminism, post-structuralism and postmodernism, and rational choice theory. Interactionism plays a role in the novel in the relationships between the family, and how they adapt (or do not adapt) to each other, and what these relationships ultimately mean to the family as a whole and individually. Each member of the family has a specific role, and plays it out throughout the book. Rational choice theory is observed throughout the book as the family makes living and social choices not based simply on rational thought, but based on their economic level and what is available to them, such as the house made out of lard cans in the beginning of the story."

Tags:negi, culture

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"The purpose of this research is to investigate Cervantes' novel, The Adventures of Don Quixote and to examine the various types of humor used, the purpose of such types of humor, and the way in which Cervantes uses humor to reveal truths about the human condition.

What is most characteristic of the humor employed in The Adventures of Don Quixote is its humanity. No matter what character type or institution Cervantes chooses to mock, he does so with a gentle touch rather than with a destroying swipe. True, there are balloons of pomposity that need deflating, Cervantes seems to tell us, but it is not necessary to rip them open, it is only necessary to unseal their stems and allow a little gas to escape.

In his prologue to the work, Cervantes gives a good in ... "

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This paper discusses Colombian situation by mentioning Benedict Anderson's work, "Imagined Communities". It then examines how Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" creates a myth of Colombian history and how its magical realism expresses Latin American collective consciousness.

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"Marquez has long expressed an aim to write what he refers to as 'the true history of Colombia'. One Hundred Years of Solitude may not have any factual basis, although it does contain fictionalized versions of actual historical events, but it is a response to the inadequacy of official history and a myth of the history of Colombia. It begins with the founding of an Eden-like Macondo in an innocent and 'magical' time and follows its progression through the stories of various generations of the Buendias till its eventual destruction by a great wind. It is a myth of evolution, of progress, and of the loss of innocence of a whole society. It begins in an era where magic is possible, and follows the loss of this magic to science and technology. "

Tags:realism, solitude, hundred, years

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This paper explores the issues of hope versus disillusionment, and dreams versus reality in the novel "Don Quixote". The author provides examples of the state of illusion and dreams of the protagonist, Miguel de Cervantes.

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"Time is a significant factor throughout the book. The story is about a man who wanted to be great in ways that are incompatible with the times he lives in (Sieber, ?Don Quixote.?) Don Quixote apparently not only believes that the fiction he has read about knights and their ladies are true, but that they are happening within his lifetime. Without this time confusion, the rest of his delusion would fall apart. "

Tags:travel, knight, castle, symbolism, time

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A paper which shows how reality and illusion are interwoven not only throughout the story line of Don Quixote exploits, but how author, Miguel de Cervantes, even leaves the true authorship of this tale in question, suggesting that he is merely translating the story from the original writings of Cide Hamete. The paper discusses the madness of Don Quixote who sees people and objects in his everyday life as the counterparts in his knights and damsels world of chivalry, and how Don Quixote charging the windmills has become a classic scene and now serves to symbolize bravery in vain.

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"Cervantes begins Part Two of Don Quixote again referring to the writings of Cide Hamete, thus, lending credence to both, Don Quixote and Hamete as real historic characters (Cervantes, 529). This further adds confusion between reality and fantasy. Throughout the novel there are countless scenes crossing the line of reality and illusion. The deathbed scene is perhaps the most poignant, for at the end, even though he himself had given up his chivalrous life and rejoined society, the others around him were still holding on to his fantastic world of knights and damsels in distress. But Don Quixote speaks, "I am no longer Don Quixote of La Mancha, but Alonso Quixana.""

Tags:Alonso, Quixano, knighthood, Sancho, Cide, Hame, Miguel, de, Cervantes

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This paper analyses the Spanish novel "El Libro de Buen Amor" by Juan Ruiz with an emphasis on the meanings of the term "buen amor" ot true love. It looks at how the term "buen amor" was used in medieval Spain, in order to narrow down what in fact Juan Ruiz might have been implying every time he used it and how the term can have different meanings, courtly love, the love of God and honorable human love or divine love.

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"Although the word in the title is "amor" this does not simply translate as "love" because at the time love and sex were not clearly distinguished from one another and it was sometimes a synonym for sex. The book primarily instructs on how to seduce women and how to determine the most desirable woman. The question is, why is he providing sex education? And how does this stand alongside his attitude to religion and the Virgin Mary, whom he refers to as "comien'o e ra'z'de todo bien" It is clear that the work is not an attack on clerical celibacy as there is evidence that Juan Ruiz is in fact opposed to it. Juan Ruiz writes of the love of nuns, "tienen a sus amigos en viciosos" and it could be said that he fears the consequences of clerical celibacy."

Tags:sex, education, seduction, medieval, spain