The Sage: Don Quixote
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SummaryDon Quixote, titular character of Cervantes’ famous novel is certain that a scribe who is recording all of his actions will make him famous in history. Such a scribe, in the Quixotic sense, does not really exist, but Cervantes fulfills the role. If Cervantes had inserted himself into his novel Quixote would have been sure to call him a scribe because of his omniscience and knowledge of everything that Don Quixote was experiencing. In “On the Power of the Imagination” Montaigne is also a faithful recorder of fantastical events who discusses the peculiarities of imagination. As the authors speak to the readers they try to keep their feet on the ground so they can reasonably examine the relationship between imagination and language and how it plays out in writing.
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- Montaigne devotes a little bit of time to discussing his own modest experience with the power of imagination but for the most part his examples are taken from far-off places and times.
- Cervantes shows how differences in language can completely change what seems to be a fairly straight-forward event.
- Like Montaigne, Cervantes is concerned with examining the influence of the imagination.
- As a nonfiction writer Montaigne does not pretend to be omniscient, the only things he is remotely omniscient of are his thoughts and everything else is second-hand.
- Cervantes goes about beginning his novel with caution and modesty, albeit disguised in wit.
- How ironic is it that Don Quixote did end up becoming quite famous and revered?
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