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In Malory’s literature, men were knights, ladies were damsels, and magic was preponderant. By the time that Cervantes wrote Don Quixote, men got real jobs, the innocent damsel had become a myth, and magic was reduced to superstition. The ....

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... will discuss both authors’ point of view on the institution of chivalry. Le Morte d’Arthur and Don Quixote are very dissimilar in many ways. The first is a tragedy, the second a comedy. Le Morte d’Arthur is a compilation of several dozen smaller stories, each written with an individual focus on one central character. Don Quixote is one story written around one character, Don Quixote. Malory’s work is filled murder, death, and violence, while in Cervantes’ piece, no one is killed, all injuries are recoverable, and all the violence is mitigated by a touch of absurdity. But these two pieces are very similar i ...