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**Gooracouppy** · 08-13-2012, 07:59 AM

Don Quixote railed against windmills.

Much like you do against the evil bankers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote

Don Quixote was also a simile based cultural/political fable by its author, Cervantes, in opposition to the tyranny Spain's treatment of Moors, cryptic Muslims, and Jews remaining in Spain and the destruction of the 600 year existance of Andalusia's Islamic heritage.

Cervantes pretended that the story of Don Quixote originated from Spain's Arab legacy.
"Cervantes recounts how he acquired a book and then looked around for a Moor to translate it. "It was not very difficult" to find such a Moor, he writes. In fact, he says, he could have even found a translator of Hebrew.

The Arabic manuscript, the Moor tells him, is the "History of Don Quixote de la Mancha, written by Cide Hamete Benengeli, an Arab historian." Cervantes brings the Moor to the cloister of a church and commissions a translation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/13/ar...pagewanted=all

Here's an insight into Cervantes treatment of Don Quixote jousting with windmills:

Don Quixote sees things in a confused state: Windmills, which were introduced by Muslim engineers into Spain, become monsters he needs to fight. This is a reference to the current struggle (righteous warfare), that the current polity was exercising to repress the Andalusian past (evil breed).

At this point they came in sight of thirty forty windmills that there are on plain, and as soon as Don Quixote saw them he said to his squire, “Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes; for this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth.”

 Cervantes writes in these meta-fictional and duplicitous ways in order to call attention to the current state of despair Spain is locked into; while still remembering what Spain was under Andalusian rule. Both countries are undoubtedly Spain, but both are subject to different cultural influences with very contrasting results.

08-13-2012, 07:59 AM	#18
Gooracouppy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 443 Senior Member	Don Quixote railed against windmills. Much like you do against the evil bankers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote Don Quixote was also a simile based cultural/political fable by its author, Cervantes, in opposition to the tyranny Spain's treatment of Moors, cryptic Muslims, and Jews remaining in Spain and the destruction of the 600 year existance of Andalusia's Islamic heritage. Cervantes pretended that the story of Don Quixote originated from Spain's Arab legacy. "Cervantes recounts how he acquired a book and then looked around for a Moor to translate it. "It was not very difficult" to find such a Moor, he writes. In fact, he says, he could have even found a translator of Hebrew. The Arabic manuscript, the Moor tells him, is the "History of Don Quixote de la Mancha, written by Cide Hamete Benengeli, an Arab historian." Cervantes brings the Moor to the cloister of a church and commissions a translation. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/13/ar...pagewanted=all Here's an insight into Cervantes treatment of Don Quixote jousting with windmills: Don Quixote sees things in a confused state: Windmills, which were introduced by Muslim engineers into Spain, become monsters he needs to fight. This is a reference to the current struggle (righteous warfare), that the current polity was exercising to repress the Andalusian past (evil breed). At this point they came in sight of thirty forty windmills that there are on plain, and as soon as Don Quixote saw them he said to his squire, “Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes; for this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth.”  Cervantes writes in these meta-fictional and duplicitous ways in order to call attention to the current state of despair Spain is locked into; while still remembering what Spain was under Andalusian rule. Both countries are undoubtedly Spain, but both are subject to different cultural influences with very contrasting results.
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