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a Duke and Duchess' servant dresses up as Merlin and tells Don that Dulcinea’s enchantment can be undone if Sancho whips himself 3,300 times
| donquixotweet Sancho lies to Don, saying that an enchanter has turned Dulcinea into a peasant girl. Undoing this enchantment becomes Quixote’s chief goal ... |
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| donquixotweet 2nd part of the novel begins with a tirade against a phony sequel of Don Quixote, published between Cervantes’s two parts. |
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| donquixotweet the priest and the barber come to drag Don home. assuming he is under the power of a spell he accompanies them, ending his second expedition |
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| donquixotweet Sancho bears the brunt of the punishments that arise from Quixote's behavior & tries his best to correct his master’s outlandish fantasies. ... |
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| donquixotweet he becomes convinced of healing power of the Balsam of Fierbras, an elixir that makes him so ill that, by comparison, he later feels healed |
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| donquixotweet Quixote abandons a boy, leaving him in the hands of an evil farmer simply b/c farmer swears he will not harm the boy. |
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| donquixotweet He becomes more bandit than savior on the 2nd mission, stealing from justifiably angry citizens, acting against "threats to his knighthood" |
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| donquixotweet He gives up food, shelter, & comfort in the name of a peasant woman Dulcinea del Toboso, whom he envisions as a princess, but has never met |
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| donquixotweet Quixote pledges to make Sancho governor of an isle in exchange. On Rocinante, a barn nag past his prime, Quixote rides ISO glory & adventure |
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| donquixotweet After 1st failed adventure, sets out on 2nd 1 w befuddled laborer Sancho Panza, whom he persuaded to accompany him as faithful squire. |
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| donquixotweet Don Quixote is gentleman from La Mancha, Spain. Obsessed with chivalrous ideals, takes up his lance to defend helpless and destroy wicked. |
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