The foolishness of duels within the code of chivalry is satirized by Cervantes in Chapters 14, 64 and 65 of Book II. Sanson Carrasco is trying to use the code to get Don Quixote to end his sallies and return home to his village. Carrasco appears disquised as the Knight of The Wood, and later as the Knight of the White Moon. He tells a story that is much like that of Quixote, when he tells him of falling "in love with the peerless Casildea de Vandalia" (II Chapter 14). The challenge to Quixote is clear, when Carrasco says that he is to ride the land telling knights-errant that they must confess that Casildea is the "most beautiful woman now living and that I am the most enamored man of arms that is to be found anywhere in the world" (II Chapter 14). He goes on to tell stories about already defeating Don Quixote and taking his fame. Quixote know this is lying, yet he himself is living in an imaginary world.…show more content… The Squire of the Wood tells Pahnco that they must "come to blows and hack each other to bits" (II Chapter 14). They discuss what they might do instead of being up swords, and in that conversation; Cervantes reveals how pointless dueling really was. To fight and possibly kill, because both were noble and honored ladies was not reasonable. Carrasco had stated that the loser would have to obey the winner. Quixote defeated Carrasco because Rocinante actually was swift, for once, and the horse of Carrasco refused to move. Carrasco revealed, in Chapter 15, that the plan was to Quixote back home. There was hope that there might be "some suitable cure for his madness" (II Chapter 15). The two duel again in Chapter 64, and the Knight of the Moon tells the bested Quixote, "I shall be content if the great Don Quixote will retire to his village... as was agreed between us before joining battle" (II Chapter
