The Relationship Between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

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The Relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are considered as two important and leading characters of the novel. Don Quixote is represented as a charismatic man who has read numerous books based on nobility until he envisions that he is certainly a knight-errant. He tries to involve himself with the problems of the world but he sometimes makes things worse. Sancho Panza is an illiterate neighbour of Don Quixote, who signs on the agreement as Don Quixote’s squire particularly in hopes of becoming ruler of an island as a recompense for some adventure. Additionally, Sancho was initially a nervous character but later in the novel he became more talkative and a true believer in terms of Don Quixote’s madness. However, it can be stated that both the characters are interrelated with each other and create a great importance of the relationship to the novel. The connection between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza is considered an important one. Thus, both the characters stand and reflect on dissimilar things. “Don Quixote signifies illusion, whereas, Sancho Panza symbolizes reality. They complement each other in two ways. In the novel, it has been perceived that when they are together they built a single man composed of mind and body. They become a single individual who needs imagination in real life because too many realities are destroying people. However, their relationship, the combination of idealism and realism interact in an opposite way, in terms of what they represent.”
In the Chapter 8, the most rememable plot that I may have. Both Don Quixote and Sancho appeared in a plain with thirty windmills. Don Quixote is observed as a very happy personality at that moment. "Listen, there's a friend, Sancho," he exclaimed, "Fortune gave me thirty or forty giants, and when they die, we can demand the legitimate interests of our conquest." Squire asked, "What giant?” But Don Quixote, with his shield and lance draped, already urged Rosinante to move forward, and brought his weapons to the first windmill's sail, but the action interrupted the spear, probably threw the horse and rider. I'm not saying they are windmills! "Sancho shouted to his aid," Don Quixote said he was not really lucky, because the shaman who plagiarized books and studied the curse now deprived him of victory by turning these giants into windmills (Miguel, p. 313).
Soon, in many adventures, Don Quixote began his faith as a knight. If Sancho can resist the adventure of a windmill and still clings to his madman, he can remain faithful in all the most luxurious adventures. Thus, it reflects that Sancho can be deliberated as honest person who is willing to stay and help his master in different ways. The struggle with the windmill has a rich symbolic meaning. Regardless of whether this clumsy machine represents human institutions to attack, or an ancient tradition that requires new suspicions, or a totalitarian government whose revolution requires innovation, or the bureaucratic attack required by individuals, it does not matter (Pellet, p. 562). It is important that only an active desire for behaviour can attack anything. Thus, the success or failure is not considerab...