Examples Of Chivalry In Don Quixote

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Don Quixote is a satirical novel that explores chivalry. In the excerpt of Don Quixote, the author, Miguel de Cervantes criticizes the concept of chivalry in order to teach the audience that chivalry was a farce. In the novel, Don Quixote comes upon a man whipping a young errand boy. This scene is harsh and sets the perfect scene for Don Quixote to be the hero. However, the chivalry that he admires so much does not help the boy and instead only allows Don Quixote to feel noble. This perfectly criticizes the idea of chivalry. The idea in itself is based on the responsibility a knight has to what is upright. In this situation Don Quixote accepts the responsibility to defend and protect this boy, but by also following the code of chivalry he does not help and the boy is beaten close to death. …show more content…
That while this is a satirical novel in which events are exaggerated such incidents did occur. People believed so much in the idea of chivalry that they were rarely able to stop true injustice. Instead, people employed the concept of chivalry to feel superior as Don Quixote does after he so called saved the boy. This criticism boils down to chivalrous men not actually being chivalrous and instead men practice such a concept to feel proud of themselves without doing anything as Don Quixote did. Little did the actual people they tried to help matter to them. The author presents this critic in a harsh way. It is in a sense supposed to take on a humorous style, but the events that occur are anything, but. The scene pulls at the heartstrings in a way and people may quickly jump to blame Don Quixote. However, the true culprit is chivalry. Don Quixote represents the men who are obsessed and in quite exaggerated terms portrays them as what the author believed they truly were, fools. They are not loyal to anyone except the chivalry, they seems to follow. Such criticism is found throughout the excerpt of the novel by the
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