Analyze Don Quixote

• Romance

• Affection and loyalty for Dulcinea
• Romantic love an aspect of knighthood
• Recognizes the chivalry in honoring the one he loves

• Bravery

• Honors the moral foundation of chivalry and knighthood
• Defends Dulcinea’s beauty and virtue

Advocates the freedom of prisoners doomed to “forced labor”

• Errantry

• Professes to be a true knight and uphold the errands of a knight
• Believes himself to be on a heavenly errand as a knight
• Upholds the duties of a knight to help the less fortunate of circumstance and power
• Though fictional, Quixote’s errantry is realism in his mind and world