Essay About Miguel De Cervantes And Don Quixote

From Page to Screem
From Page to Screem
Claudia CabreraProfessor FernandezENC 1102 11:00 am16 March 2015From
Miguel de Cervantes great seventeenth century Spanish classic, Don Quixote of La Mancha has been adapted to the screen by Peter Yates. Yates was an English film director and producer. He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire. The son of an army officer, he attended Charterhouse School as a boy, graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked for some years as an actor, director and stage manager. In 1970 Yates said he would make Don Quixote with Richard Burton but the project stalled. He did finally make a television film of the Cervantes novel in 2000. (“Peter Yates”)      A crusade for decency and truth was mounted by a man gone mad in “Don Quixote” the film adaptation of the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. In the same way as the original work, the film tell the story of Alonso Quixano, a men who decides that it was time to devote his life to battling evil in all its forms; he dubs himself Don Quixote, obtains a suit of armor, and with the help of his loyal friend and squire Sancho Panza, he sets out to confront the worlds ills. Inspired by the lovely Dulcinea and pursued by a mysterious Duchess, Quixote fights his battles as he finds them. At the end of the movie, Don Quixote retires to his bed with a deathly illness, and later awakes from a dream, having fully recovered his sanity.     Don Quixote, which is composed of three different sections, is a rich exploration of the possibilities of narrative. (“SparkNote on Don Quixote”) Cervantes created this “crazy old man” character of Alonso Quixano, to in some way, talk about the problems of the society without being hounded by the authorities. Cervantes talk about morality, human identity, honor, truth and justice. These make his literature work a social satire and parody of medieval romances, that still beloved by readers worldwide today.