Don Quixote Chapters 19-27

In chapter 19, it says, “A lacquey that came on foot, seeing the man in white fall, began to revile Don Quixote, whose choler being now raised, he couched his spear, and, immediately attacking one of the mourners, laid him on the ground grievously wounded; then turning about to the rest, it was worth seeing with what agility he attacked and defeated them; and it seemed as if wings at that instant had sprung on Rozinante- so lightly and swiftly he moved!” This again goes along with the theme of Don Quixote seeing the fiction where he is. He really wanted to defeat these men quickly, and he wanted his horse to have a part of the defeat. So because Rozinante was really fast, it seemed like there were wings. This is a pretty big imagination because it concerns the horse actually flying, while fighting, which we know is pretty impossible. But Don Quixote doesn’t see it as being impossible, he sees himself where anything is possible. I’m curious to whether Don Quixote will see his horse fly in the future, because it was a pretty big step to show this. I can picture this happening again in the rest of the book. Maybe when Don Quixote is in trouble, and he needs his horse to fly and save themselves.

In Chapter 26, it says, “Which was, that he should perform himself the part of a damsel-errant, and the barber equip himself as her squire; in which disguise they should repair to Don Quixote: and the curate presenting himself as an afflicted and distressed lady, should beg a boon of him, which he, as a valorous knight-errant, could not do otherwise than grant; and this should be a request that he would accompany her whither she should lead him, to redress an injury done her by a discourteous knight; entreating him, at the same time, not to desire her to remove her mask, nor make any farther inquiries concerning her, until he had done her justice on that wicked knight.” I found this to be funny because it was a major turnaround in the story where other characters dress themselves up purposely to talk to Don Quixote. Don Quixote do not imagine them as being damsel-errants, they dress up as damsel-errants. It was not his fictitious imagination. He will maybe use his fictitious imagination in what he portrays them to be. He may portray them as being princesses again. I found it interesting because I didn’t expect these men to dress up as women just for Don Quixote to recognize them. This time, these men were trying to put an image in Don Quixote’s mind of two beautiful women.