Don Quixote #3

     Okay, I am pretty sure that there would be more than one reader of this blog now. Anyway, Hello blog readers, for people who may be new to this blog and have decided to start reading at the third post instead of the first for whatever reason, this blog is about the book Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The book a man named Quixana who is a simple gentleman that goes insane from reading too many books about chivalry and the knight-errants they are about and decides to craft himself into the gallant knight Don Quixote de de la Mancha and along with his squire , who is completely sane, Sancho Panza goes out into the world to adventure and preform chivalrous acts like those from his stories.

     In the story there is one event that I wanted to bring up because it seems to tie in with an idea that seems to always be floating around in the story and that is the idea of old ideas being left behind and those who cling to them. The event in question is one that seems like everything else in the adventure of Don Quixote and that is a completely random situation that the two have found themselves in, the situation is a funeral that they are attending because they were invited by the shepherds who were hosting them for the night. The funeral is for a man who died because of being extremely lovestruck and being rejected by the person of his affection. The woman is made out to be a cold woman who is heartless, yet beautiful and through the word of the shepherds and the poems that the person who has died has written about how she is beautiful and at the same time very cold.

     The woman in question comes to the funeral, her name is Marcela and she is quickly met with harsh words by the shepherds who go to call her a basilisk who has cruelly slain the deceased. Marcela takes all their words in stride and then goes to explain that the deceased had died due to them being a fool who was unable to accept that she did not want to be with him. She then goes and explains how whenever a man comes to her telling her of his love how she always tells them that she is not interested and never leads them on or gives them any hope of being with her. Marcela saying all this shows her leaving of a normal idea that a woman has to be with a husband and calmly describes this idea to the shepherds defending herself and her departure from what would be considered normal customs if outdated customs.