5. Don QuioteII is more tightly structured and more
psychologically penetrating than Part I. There is a clear
trajectory: Don Quixote and Sancho head for
Zaragoza, but Don Quixote changes his mind -see
chapter 59 below-- and they proceed to Barcelona
before returning home. There are virtually no
interpolated tales, farce is much reduced and Don
Quixote and Sancho are central to the whole
development of Part II.
6. 1. The priest and barber visit Don Quixote. He
appears to be sane until the priest questions him on
what the king should do against a perceived Turkish
threat. Don Quixote’s replies that the king should call
on all the knights-errant in Spain to defeat the
Turks. Don Quixote makes a passionate defence of
knight-errantry and insists that knights-errant really
existed. He even gives a description of some,
including Amadís of Gaul.
7. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha.
2. Sancho Panza appears. Don Quixote asks him
what people are saying about him. Sancho also informs
Don Quixote that a student from the village –Sansón
Carrasco—has told him that a book has been
published about their adventures, with the title
8. Sancho urges Don Quixote to go out on a third sally,
and he will accompany him provided he does not have
to fight. Wants to be known as the most loyal squire to
have ever served a knight-errant. Sansón suggests they
head to Zaragoza to participate in some jousts.
9. Conversation between Sancho and his wife,
Teresa. Sancho talks of marrying their daughter
to someone important if he becomes a governor;
his wife objects, saying she should marry someone
of her social status. Sancho ends by correcting his
wife’s language (as Don Quixote has done with
him!)
10. Conversation between Don Quixote and his
niece. He defends knight-errantry following her
assertion that all knights were fictitious. Sancho
asks Don Quixote for a salary. Don Quixote has
never heard of knights-errant paying their
squires, and he refuses, telling Sancho that he can
find plenty of squires… whereupon Sansón
Carrasco turns up and offers himself as squire!
Sancho capitulates
11. Set off on third sally. First, Don Quixote wants to
call at El Toboso to see Dulcinea. Arrive at El Toboso
at night. Can’t find Dulcinea’s palace. Sancho
persuades Don Quixote to wait outside the village
while he looks for Dulcinea. Sancho sees three village
girls on donkeys, and tells Don Quixote that Dulcinea
is approaching accompanied by two ladies-in-waiting.
Don Quixote is puzzled because he can only see three
ugly, garlic-smelling peasant girls. After a disastrous
encounter, he rationalises that Dulcinea has been
transformed by some evil enchanters (who have
always persecuted him).
12. Incident with the actors. Don Quixote is perplexed and
comments on the dangers of appearances. He accepts
Sancho’s advice not to attack the actors because they are
not knights.
Don Quixote battles with the Knight of the Mirrors (also
called the Knight of the Forest). Against all odds, he
succeeds in defeating him. His adversary turns out to be
Sansón Carrasco, who had dressed up as knight, confident
that he would defeat Don Quixote and therefore oblige him
to return to thevillage. Result: Don Quixote
continueshisresolvestrengthened after his victory (again
rationalizes that the Knight of the Mirrors was made to
look like Sansón Carrasco by those enchanters!).
Meanwhile, an angry Sansón Carrasco swears vengeance.
13. Meets Don Diego de Miranda, Knight of the Green Coat.
Each narrates his life story to the other. Adventure of the
Lion. Don Quixote against all advice orders the door to the
cage opened and awaits the lion's challenge, but all it does
is yawn and turn its back to him.
Arrive at Don Diego’s house. Conversation with Don
Diego’s son about poetry. Decide to continue to Zaragoza,
but first Don Quixote wants to visit the Cave of
Montesinos. They meet two students and two peasants on
donkeys. Students tell them they are on the way to an
arranged wedding between Camacho and Quiteria. The
wealthy Camacho, however, has a rival, Basilio. Don
Quixote and Sancho decide to accompany them.
14. . The wedding. How Basilio tricks them all and ends
up marrying Quiteria. Don Quixote and Sancho
Panza discuss marriage before heading for the Cave of
Montesinos. Descent into and return from the
cave. Don Quixote describes what he saw in the cave.
All those he met there –including Dulcinea-- were
enchanted and awaiting him as their disenchanter.
Montesinos was to let Don Quixote know how he
would do this. This cheered Don Quixote
enormously. The only dissonant note was that
Dulcinea –through one of her “maids”-- had asked him
for a loan.
15. Don Quixote and Sancho meet a soldier going
off to war and a man carrying lances and halberds
to his village. Don Quixote and Sancho stop at an
inn where the man carrying arms tells them why
he is doing so. Introduces tale of the lost donkey
and the braying aldermen. Arrival of Maese Pedro
and his prophesying ape. Don Quixote asks Maese
Pedro if the ape can tell him whether what he saw
in the Cave of Montesinos was real or a dream.
16. Don Quixote and Sancho meet don Alvaro Tarfe at
an inn. Don Alvaro is a major character from the
false Part II who, after talking to “our” Don
Quixote and Sancho, agrees to swear before the
local mayor and sign a document confirming that
they are indeed the “real” Don Quixote and
Sancho Panza Final return to the village. Don
Quixote tells the priest and barber that he intends
to become a shepherd for a year until he can
return to his chivalric life
