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Don Quixote And Le Morte D Art
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In Malory’s literature, men were knights, ladies were damsels, and magic was preponderant. By the time that Cervantes wrote Don Quixote, men got real jobs, the innocent damsel had become a myth, and magic was reduced to superstition.
These works both examine the chivalric ideal: “physi ....
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....nuine tales of chivalry. The stories Malory used as a basis and those that Cervantes spoofed were about knights who were larger than life, and therefore never felt tempted, or acted rashly. They were above human emotions like jealousy. They were chaste, and pure in heart and motive. But nearly all of Malory’s knights swam in immorality – Launcelot was a cuckolder, Sir Gawain has been depicted as “cowardly, depraved, cruel and treacherous”(The Knightly Tales of Sir Gawain,.... |
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