Very broadly it is the difference between the idealistic or romantic view of the world and the realistic. Quixote, an impoverished member of the upper class, a reader of chivalric novels, is tall and thin. Sancho, short and fat, is no reader of books and is down-to-earth. Quixote may see windmills as human foes but Sancho sees them for what they are. You can work this out right through the book. The knight rides a horse ( in reality a hack, which he glorifies as a chivalric mount) and his servant a donkey. The knight wishes to conquer evil wherever he finds it or imagines it, the servant is content with humble duties, food and drink, and the usual round of life, until he is catapulted into his master's visionary world. Through an accident, Sancho actually becomes a high personage, a Governor. As the book progresses, Sancho is sometimes bitten by his master's vision, and at the end Quixote , cured of his "madness" wakes up to reality, and, having nothing to live for, dies, until Sancho, filled with sadness, almost wishes his master had not come to his senses. Try to work out how the relationship between the two plays out in the long novel, for both change through it.
2007-03-22 04:26:13
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answered by tirumalai 4
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Actually, Sancho was the loyal friend who went along with his friend's delusions but tried ardently to keep his friend out of trouble. Don Quixote imagined he was a noble knight, and imagined great adventures including slaying a dragon (which was actually a windmill). Sancho could see the reality of the situation while Don could not. Sancho was constatly helping Don out of precarious situations. This administration is all Don Quixotes. ~X~
2016-04-07 12:37:47
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answered by Anonymous
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