Don Quixote And Le Morte D Art
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: “physical prowess, courtesy, truth in love and friendship, tenderness, humility, gentleness” (The Legend of Arthur in British & American Literature, p. 65) and remark much on it. While they both find this ideal to be too much for a man to maintain, they express it in different wa ....
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