But Don Quixote is an excellent work, which makes the novel surpass the author's original intention in meaning and become a far-reaching work. First of all, the novel vividly describes the social background of Spain at that time, which makes the work have documentary value beyond its time. More importantly, the novel portrays Don Quixote as a stupid, idealistic, amiable and respectable character. So that later critics put Don Quixote and Hamlet side by side, thinking that Tang was an actor without thoughts and Hamlet was a thinker without action. The combination of the two is complete human wisdom.
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Although the original intention of this book seems to be to "make the world hate absurd knight novels" and "clean up the collection of knight novels", and the knight novels have miraculously disappeared after publication, we can't underestimate Cervantes' real creative intention, because the broad social picture and overflowing rich ideas displayed in the book are far from a simple motivation to clean up knight novels.
It opposes combining the description of people from all walks of life with the description of social reality, vividly shows the arrogance of aristocratic gentlemen and the bitterness of ordinary people, and creates about 700 characters with different occupations and personalities in the book. They reflect the reality of Spanish society in the second half of16th century from different angles.
In a book, it is Cervantes' initiative to reflect the times and reality with such a broad and moving picture, which has a far-reaching impact on the development of modern novels.
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This novel is one of my favorite works. Don Quixote is usually regarded as a ridiculous figure, and most people think that "he is a complicated and contradictory figure". And I think he should symbolize a lonely struggler who insists on independence and self, and he is a hero. The pioneers that ordinary people don't understand are ridiculous figures in the eyes of ordinary people. They forge ahead alone in the lonely wilderness, but ignorant creatures always think they are fighting windmills. 1829, Pushkin painted a portrait entitled Pushkin on horseback for himself, in which Pushkin rode a thin horse with a spear in his hand, which was very similar to Don Quixote.
In addition, when studying Don Quixote, there is another phenomenon that people tend to ignore. There are many stories similar to Butch Yuga's decameron or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, which have nothing to do with the hero's adventure. It is probably unreasonable to explain it from the aspect of immature creation: how can a work, one of the greatest novels in Spanish history, have so many redundant articles?
Personally, I think the author is intentional. Those stories all have a common feature, that is, the pursuit of freedom and individuality, which is consistent with the idea of enlightenment that arose in Britain at that time. Can Don Quixote be regarded as a work with the nature of ideological enlightenment?
As long as you read more biographies of world celebrities, you will admit that what I said is true. As for the conventional explanation, the city watcher said it very well. I'm just offering some ideas.
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The significance of Don Quixote is that the author profoundly reveals the contradiction between man's own ideal and reality in the form of comedy. Don Quixote and Sancho are a group of people who are interrelated and set off each other. The former reflects people's pursuit of ideals, while the latter reflects people's concern for real life. They influence each other. Later, Don Quixote gradually saw the dreaminess of the ideal, while Sancho saw the beauty of his master's spiritual world. Their humorous conversations along the way and the vivid description of real life in Spain in their novels let readers see their own contradictions from them and the tragic color from Don Quixote's comedy image.