Just wanted to intersperse some feedback and comments on Don Quixote...

So this is the blog that got erased...stupid...I am very, very angry so this blog may not be as good as the last that was ERASED!!!!!

Funny parts in this section of reading:
~Mambrino's helmet
~Sancho tied Rocinante's legs together
~Sancho's blanket toss
~Sheep & dust storm mistaken for army by DQ

Storytelling is a large part of literature and DQ shows us how signigficant it is. Sancho believes that storytellling must take on a certain structure in order to be a story. The structure the story is told also helps the reader to understand its meaning. DQ and Sancho have very different ways of telling stories, for example, sancho repeats what he says twice, while DQ finds this to be annoying and nonsensical. Looking at literature and storytelling I questioned: is there such a thing as a fiction novel. Can a work of literature be completely fiction? Doesn't all literature have some truth to it?

I saw a lot of Marxist crticism thoughts in this part of DQ as well. The class struggle brings reality to the novel and makes the characters seem more human and realistic, rather than fictitious and imaginative.

I also examined the story of Marcela and Chrysotomo. Chrysotomo died of lovesickness. Marcela is a very beautiful, intelligent woman and believes that he is the fool for falling so deep in love with her and her beauty. I love this idea. I actually idolize Marcela to a certain degree for making Chrysotomo and example of a weak male because I think all to much it is the women seen as this weak character falling too deep in love. It is risking life for ideaology, ideals, and love. That's not how it should be. We can love, we can idolize and have ideals, but to give our lives for them is foolish, not even imaginative or creative, simply foolish!

I also made a connection between Marcela's beauty pertaining to heaven and chrysotomo's wish to be received by the greeks in the afterlife. Could this be pointing towards fate? Are they meant to be? Would they meet in the afterlife?

The Golden Age (an idea of Vico) is an age in which Knights protect the purity of the virgins, it is an age in which the virgins roam free.

I had a random connection between Dorothea (woman in DQ) and Franny Fern (an american author)- both dress in mens clothing to escape some sort of reality in the world they are living in. Is this completely random and off topic, well perhaps it is, but still- creative connection!

Also, is Lucinda a real person? Cardenio says that she loves chivalric tales and is his love! But...could it be possible that Lucinda is a character that he made up because HE is in love with chivalric works? A thought to ponder...

Don Quixote's insanity is beginning to intensify.
Imitations are turning into reality, while reality is becoming an imitation...Tautological thought
Sancho is caught between fiction and reality, sanity and insanity.