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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages lying forgotten in a corner eaten with rust and covered with mildew. He scoured and polished it as best he could, but he perceived one great defect in it, that it had no closed helmet, nothing but a simple morion. This deficiency, however, his ingenuity supplied, for he contrived a kind of half-helmet of pasteboard which, fitted on to the morion, looked like a whole one. It is true that, in order to see if it was strong and fit to stand a cut, he drew his sword and gave it a couple of slashes, the first of which undid in an instant what had taken him a week to do. The ease with which he had knocked it to pieces disconcerted him somewhat, and to guard against that danger he set to work again, fixing bars of iron on the inside until he was satisfied with its strength; and then, not caring to try any more experiments with it, he passed it and adopted it as a helmet of the most perfect construction.
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In 1–2 sentences, evaluate details that indicate Don Quixote differs from the traditional knight archetype.
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages lying forgotten in a corner eaten with rust and covered with mildew. He scoured and polished it as best he could, but he perceived one great defect in it, that it had no closed helmet, nothing but a simple morion. This deficiency, however, his ingenuity supplied, for he contrived a kind of half-helmet of pasteboard which, fitted on to the morion, looked like a whole one. It is true that, in order to see if it was strong and fit to stand a cut, he drew his sword and gave it a couple of slashes, the first of which undid in an instant what had taken him a week to do. The ease with which he had knocked it to pieces disconcerted him somewhat, and to guard against that danger he set to work again, fixing bars of iron on the inside until he was satisfied with its strength; and then, not caring to try any more experiments with it, he passed it and adopted it as a helmet of the most perfect construction.
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In 1–2 sentences, evaluate details that indicate Don Quixote differs from the traditional knight archetype.
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Don Quixote's preparation for knighthood starkly contrasts with the traditional knight archetype, as he repurposes rusted, forgotten armor from his great-grandfather and constructs a half-helmet from pasteboard, highlighting his lack of access to proper equipment and emphasizing his delusion of grandeur. His improvised and fragile armor underscores his eccentricity and the comedic absurdity of his quest for knighthood, diverging from the typical portrayal of a well-equipped, glorious knight.
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