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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThrough the adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho
Panza, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra wants to present the
theme of Don Quixote that idealism represented by
chivalry ironically fails in the modern realistic world.
Through Don Quixote's and Sancho Panza ds, characters
this thesis writer presents that idealism merely makes
the idealist and other people suffer because Don
Quixote's blindness to see the reality. He glorifies his
ideology too much, treats daily events in an idealistic
way and redresses the wrong without considering the
effect of his work.
Furthermore, the setting indicates that idealism
succeeds in places which are far from the realists'
influence and fails in the modern civilized places.
Through the conflicts, idealism is proved to fail
against the realistic society; and against the reality as
Don Quixote dies not as an idealist but as a realist.
This thesis is, then, concluded that idealism and
reality should be put in balance in one's life. A man
should accept the reality and not change it into the
image of ideals. He needs his ideal to live by, to guide
his life to a perfect one .