Don Quixote Write a 7 page paper comparing the theme of madness between Don Quixote by Cervantes and Diary of a Madman by Gogal. ONLY USE AS REFERENCE: Don Quixote, (pdf attached in files) Book 1, chapters 1-10, 18, 20; Book 2: chapters 3, 4, 10, 54, 63. Diary of a Madman: http://www.online-literature.com/gogol/4437/
Don Quixote Explore the idea/theme of madness in the passages from the assigned Don Quixote readings. Is he a madman? Or, as some have suggested, is he merely bored? He reads, and reads, and reads his books. What does madness really look like? Does he perhaps just have a warped sense of reality? Consider: “In … Read more
Are we meant to see Don Quixote as simply a satire of medieval literature, or is there some value in his antiquated morality? How do Machiavelli’s ideas fit with our contemporary understanding of politics? Was he correct in his belief that ethics should be subordinate to other considerations?
