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Don Quixote Writing Assignment
Due: No later than midnight Sunday, March 4,
2007 Note: Please
submit this as a cut-and-paste e-mail rather than as an attachment. [ Please choose one of the following:
Choice 1:
Don Quixote has become a world figure
not only as the hero of a celebrated novel but also as one of the main
emblems of
Briefly discuss ways in which he can be compared, in his popularity and representativeness, to heroes of ancient epics on the one hand and to modern heroes of fiction, film, and comics on the other.
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Choice 2:
In the head note to Don Quixote, our text’s anthologists state that Don Quixote represents “one of the important aspects of Renaissance literature: the attempt, ultimately frustrated but extremely attractive as long as it lasts, of the individual mind to produce a vision and a system of its own in a world that often seems to have lost a universal frame of reference and a fully satisfactory sense of the value and meaning of action” (2220).
Explain how Don Quixote fits this observation. |
