This paper discusses Cervantes’ novel, The Adventures of Don Quixote and examines the various types of humor used and their purposes and the way in which Cervantes uses humor to reveal truths about the human condition.
The purpose of this research is to investigate Cervantes’ novel, The Adventures of Don Quixote and to examine the various types of humor used, the purpose of such types of humor, and the way in which Cervantes uses humor to reveal truths about the human condition.
What is most characteristic of the humor employed in The Adventures of Don Quixote is its humanity. No matter what character type or institution Cervantes chooses to mock, he does so with a gentle touch rather than with a destroying swipe. True, there are balloons of pomposity that need deflating, Cervantes seems to tell us, but it is not necessary to rip them open, it is only necessary to unseal their stems and allow a little gas to escape.
In his prologue to the work, Cervantes gives a good in …