Was he crazy or just a dramatic asshole?

>>9283753
he was a crazy man with good intentions. Its a nice example of a person whos trying to be a and do good in the world but fails mostly and often makes things even worse in the end. Really can relate to this characterstics. If you read a bit about the autor, he lived similiar. Studied theologie but ended as a soldier and mercanary, even spent long time in jail and as a warprisonor. A man who wanted to be a good element in the world, but maybe failed and even brought more bad in it while he tried.

In truth, he was the only sane one

it said in the book he was crazy

>>9283805
how can he be sane if he attacks sheeps and thinks every tavern is a castle? He lived in a fantasy world, almost like a schizophrenic

>>9283821
Is it really sane to prefer a miserable reality to an interesting fantasy?

He was an incredibly intelligent man with a kind heart who went crazy. It mentioned several times how people were shocked at how wise and intelligent he was in all matters not related to knights errant. Basically his brain had a huge blind spot when it came to administering logic. Everything else he scrutinized and thought over, but knight errantry his brain refused to acknowledge as illogical.

So no, he wasn't an asshole at all, at least not intentionally.

>>9283833
Yes.

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This guy is very based. I was concerned about some recondite postmodern BS or a lot of politicizing but this chap keeps it real.

>>9283753
He was a caricature to poke fun of the pompousness nature of romantic novels concerning chivalry.

>>9284103
Why would Cervantes spend 1000 pages lambasting something that was already well out of fashion?

>>9284122
Because it's fun

>>9283753
Wasn't he just pretending? As soon as it was required of him, he announced himself as sane.

What a banal question

>>9283753
both, and a good man

>>9284162
go to reddit if you want quality productive dialogue

>>9284103
Wrong

>>9283753

>Not relating to Quixote

Don quixote
What do you say?
Are we proud? are we brave?
Or just crazy?
Don quixote
What do you say?
Are we shouting at windmills like you?

>>9284154
Read the book

"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!"

Pretty much the core theme of the book there, minus errant shenanigans.