The novel Don Quixote takes place in the late fifteen hundreds to the mid sixteen hundreds. ... Throughout the novel Don Quixote the author references other pieces of literature including his own. ... A man named Walter Starkie translated Don Quixote. ... Don Quixote is divided into two different parts. ... Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes and the poems by John Milton are the exact opposite of each other except for the common theme. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The meaning of the windmill tower is derived from an episode in the novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. In the novel, protagonist Don Quixote persistently fights thirty to forty windmills believing them to be giants (Riley par. 19). General Patton can directly relate to Don Quixote. ... Both Don Quixote and General Patton are relentless in regards to battle. ...

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"He stepped back into the full light of the room, looking like the vision of a cool, reflective Don Quixote, with the sunken eyes of a dark enthusiast and a very deliberate manner." (93) At first he is in his office, an office of a protector of the rich and removal of the immigrant population, and then he moves into the street outside his office. When he is in his office he is standing in the full light, he in the focal point of the room, but in his own office he looks foreign, like "Don Quixote." ...

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Don Quixote, and even Shakespeare's Hamlet, have been labeled as containing elements of metafiction; and in this regard some critics claim that the definitions for metafiction, and their application, are too broad to be used with much precision. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate