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Date Posted: 23:02:12 02/10/08 Sun
Author: Manuel Valle
Subject: Focused Essay Prompt

Focused Essay Prompt

Madness, both feigned and sincere, pervades Cervantes’s Don Quixote. In Book II Ch. 1 and Book II Ch. 15 we see two men who both think themselves sane but are called mad by others. Begin by comparing the insane graduate in the barber’s tale to Sanson in Ch. 15. Both are pretending something, but is Sanson’s fake madness as fake as the graduate’s sanity? Are they in some way driven to show their madness by being forced to respond to an attack? We know Sanson is envious; does the graduate also have some reason to hate, or perhaps love--why does he choose to think himself Neptune? Should we really assume that Sanson is sane the whole time he is feigning madness? Likewise, should we assume the graduate is always mad? Dig into the details and analyze real and assumed madness within the framework of conscious and unconscious imitation.

~Manuel

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