Don Quijote Chapters 10-18

In chapter XV, Don Quijote and Sancho lose in a battle against a group of men from Yanguas, after Rocinante wanders off into the group of mares and tried to mate with them. While Sancho was lying on the ground he told Don Quijote that, “I’d like a couple swigs of that Fairy Brass’s drink, if you’ve got some handy. Maybe it’s good for broken bones as well as for sore wounds” (117). This statement by Sancho goes along with the notion that the world needs fiction to survive. Sancho is the one who usually sees the truth and tells Don Quijote what is actully there as opposed to what he is perceiving. Don Quijote believes that it was all his fault that they landed in that bad fortune, “I should not have drawn my sword against men who were not knights, as I am; and so I believe that, as a penalty for having broken the laws of chivalry, the god of battles has allowed me to be punished in this way.” Don Quijote’s halluciantions of living in a chivalrous world are shown here. He believes that he must follow the ethics of a knight or else bad things will come his way.

In chapter XVIII, Sancho calls Don Quijote for the things he is imagining, “Come back, come back, Don Quijote sir, I swear to God they’re sheep you’re charging! Com back! By the bones of my poor old father! What madness is this? Look, there aren’t any giants or knights…What ae you doing?” (142). In this scene Sancho tell Don Quijote that he is acting mad, but Don Quijote continiues to charge. He has two teeth knocked out by the sheperds. Sancho tells him that, “You’d have done better as a preacher, than as a knight errant.” Don Quijote puts his faith back in God at this point since he is “engaged in his service.” Even when Sancho tries to tell the truth to Don Quijote he still fails to see it and continues to pursue his adventures as a “knight” from one of his books.