Why should you read "Don Quixote"? - Ilan Stavans

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    Mounting his skinny steed, Don Quixote charges an army of giants. It is his duty to vanquish these behemoths in the name of his beloved lady, Dulcinea. There’s only one problem: the giants are merely windmills. What is it about this tale of the clumsy yet valiant knight that makes it so beloved? Ilan Stavans investigates.
    Lesson by Ilan Stavans, directed by Avi Ofer.
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  • @waynepb900
    @waynepb900 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6672

    I first read Don Quixote when I was fifteen, I have reread it every five years and the novel keeps changing as I pass through life. I am sixty nine and look forward to reading my old friend next year. It's true meaning is almost within grasp.

    • @sittingfrogleg
      @sittingfrogleg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +165

      Beautifully said.

    • @petewick8627
      @petewick8627 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      I have a similar thing with “to kill a mockingbird”

    • @keithlongley362
      @keithlongley362 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      I read it for the first time in my late sixties
      after reading that Dostoevsky said if there is any proof of a divine omnipotence, its cervantes "Don Quiote"

    • @leonardocastagna6640
      @leonardocastagna6640 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Read it 3 times, but last year I listen to it...is easier

    • @renaissance17
      @renaissance17 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Ive done this with the little prince and the alchemist

  • @RaeWakefield
    @RaeWakefield 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7343

    Who’s here after watching the video of that guy reading alll the books Joe from “You” recommended?

  • @zapp5er284
    @zapp5er284 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

    GALLOP ON, ROCINANTE❗ JUSTICE SHALL PREVAIL‼️🔥🗣️

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  • @jeffersoncortez4664
    @jeffersoncortez4664 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2078

    "Don Quixote argues that our imagination greatly informs our actions, making us capable of change, and, indeed, making us human."

    • @JulioLeonFandinho
      @JulioLeonFandinho 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      That’s not the message of the book, by any means

    • @kalm6778
      @kalm6778 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@JulioLeonFandinho But it has several messages one if I remember well was that of the freedom or moral decline of Spain at that time

    • @JulioLeonFandinho
      @JulioLeonFandinho 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@kalm6778 It portraits many social types from that time, I don't think you can say one of the messages is that Spain was declining. It definitely criticizes aristocracy, but regular people too, although Cervantes was very careful in showing that within regular people you could always find good people... the salt of the Earth, we may say so. He was tough with Catholic church, but also with other social groups of the time, like lawyers... but at the same time he defended laws, for instance when Don Quixote frees the galley slaves. At first you think it's well done, because those people are convicted to a rowed ship, but then you realize that they were condemned because they were criminals, so, Don Quixote apparent justice act was in fact, appalling...
      And one of the points of the huge success of the novel in all Europe back then is that what Cervantes was describing in Spain, was happening in the other countries as well, if not exactly the same, probably worst... people realized that.
      The book is universal because all the issues treated in it happened everywhere. You can tell that many of those issues are still happening today. The book is still new, it's amazing.
      But the main message, the more general and abstract/philosophical message is precisely that an excess of 'imagination', uncontrolled idealism, always ends in a complete disaster. Cervantes wasn't an idealist at all. Some authors tried to connected him with Erasmus and humanism, but Cervantes thinking was, in fact, the opposite of that. He was a realistic man. It was during romanticism when many people started to say that El Quixote was a defense of idealism. Nothing further from reality

    • @dhorn4005
      @dhorn4005 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@JulioLeonFandinho Y sin embargo; a la muerte del hidalgo, Sancho ruega a su maestro que vuelvan al camino; y así el realista se aferra al idealismo mientras el idealista acepta la realidad. No hay duda en que el mensaje realista está ahí; pero comprendo que los idealistas también encuentren inspiración en el libro. Yo creo que en ultima instancia Cervantes aboga por un equilibrio o cuanto menos una coexistencia de ambos aspectos. El idealista no puede cambiar el mundo en el que se encuentra, por muchos molinos contra los que cargue; pero al mismo tiempo es el único capaz de ver verdades que los acérrimos realistas son incapaces de ver. Yo casi lo definiría como una defensa del idealismo desde un punto de vista relista... si es que eso tiene algún sentido XDD
      En verdad creo que si Cervantes hubiese abogado por un punto de vista puramente realista, Quijote hubiese muerto apaleado y desprovisto de gloria en una cuneta; y no como una trágica y melancólica figura que muere feliz y cuerdo habiendo sido capaz de inspirar su idealismo a una futura generación personificada en Sancho...
      No se, es lo que a priori me transmite a mi XDD

    • @brito809
      @brito809 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Jefferson Cortez
      Definitely not the message of the book. The whole book was a harsh criticism of idealism.
      Specially the end where Alonzo Quijano came to his sense and criticized his insanity during the time he was Don Quijote.

  • @wiseanchovy
    @wiseanchovy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2284

    Good explanation... but the animation is what really takes the cake. Very very cute

    • @tomggabin5838
      @tomggabin5838 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Drake Barnes Don't you mean Quentin Blake's?

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      @Thalor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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      @ynohdomi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Picasso

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      @meryuk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I like the spider.

    • @justinasbei
      @justinasbei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Somehow it only gives.

  • @RenoKyrie
    @RenoKyrie 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

    We ending the Dream of the Limbus with this one 😭

  • @lilyonthelobby2989
    @lilyonthelobby2989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1810

    The algorithm brought me here after listening to the song "Don Quixote" by K-pop group named SEVENTEEN. Now I'm excited to actually read it, thank you for the wonderful presentation.

    • @hyunjae_18
      @hyunjae_18 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I was thinking searching what is Don Quixote these days but YT offered to me instead 😂

    • @itomiastante5148
      @itomiastante5148 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Same! ”Don Quixote” is my favorite song on the album so I’m happy to learn a bit of backstory to it ;)

    • @ljkojdlo
      @ljkojdlo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Omg me too
      I was wondering why they named it don quixote😂

    • @hyunjae_18
      @hyunjae_18 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Every time I hear the name Don Quixote, I can hear Mingyu 😂 MY HEADS UP, I keep 'em high~

    • @mangtari6664
      @mangtari6664 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same here

  • @juri3678
    @juri3678 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2373

    Spanish, had to read Don Quijote de la Mancha last year for my literature class and let me tell you something: it’s beautiful. I cried so much when I finished the book... it makes you want to live according to your moral code, doing good and being yourself. The ending is bittersweet: sad ending for a good story, but isn’t life like that?

    • @mrkncd
      @mrkncd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Don Quixote is a lunatic.

    • @ramonalejandrosuare
      @ramonalejandrosuare 5 ปีที่แล้ว +188

      It's not Don Quixote who's the lunatic. It's the world that is crazy.

    • @mrkncd
      @mrkncd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@ramonalejandrosuare cant disagree with that

    • @mbarbosa3395
      @mbarbosa3395 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      My recollection is he dies. His deathbed conversation with Sancho is the most poignant and perhaps most meaningful part of the book. How is there a sequel?

    • @christopherpaul7588
      @christopherpaul7588 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Exactly! Or not crazy enough. Cervantes was also criticizing the Spanish of his time for not reading or traveling enough.

  • @KennyHazy97
    @KennyHazy97 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2952

    "An elderly man goes insane reading comic books and becomes convinced he is a superhero." - basically the premise of the bestselling book of all time.

    • @Mariajbh2
      @Mariajbh2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      He didn't read comics but novels of heroic knights. But my teacher told us that one of the reasons why the novel never loses validity or get old is that it can be extrapolated to any epoch

    • @elrochedetumyolastan
      @elrochedetumyolastan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Drunkrobot you don’t get it judging by your “in a nutshell” take of the book

    • @donaldclay9535
      @donaldclay9535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Touche'

    • @Nonius9
      @Nonius9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yeah, but this was the first one. This is like "Columbus arrival in 1492? Who cares? I can also go to America from Europe easily now...."

    • @miguelmacian6760
      @miguelmacian6760 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@Nonius9 that's not it. El Quijote is a masterpiece by its own. Not only because it is the first of its own, but because it has so many layers and it is so well written that it is considered the best of all time by many academics.

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    @creeperbros-dg9jr ปีที่แล้ว +85

    MANAGER ESQUIRE, WHERE IN THE WORLD HAS THOU GONE?!?!?!??

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  • @annast3370
    @annast3370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +519

    I'm still only about 15 chapters into it, but the one thing I can say I've taken from it so far is that there always have been and always will be people who insist they were born in the wrong era. This begs the conclusion that there's nothing wrong with the time you're born into, but rather what you decide to do in that time.

    • @johnmanole4779
      @johnmanole4779 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Beautifully said!

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      @TheCrescentKing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      “It is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.” - Brandon Sanderson

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      @thatgui88 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@TheCrescentKing yeah saying this during covid haha

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  • @DippinArnold
    @DippinArnold 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1798

    Recommended after watching John Fish reading all the books Joe from “You” recommended

  • @meshei9536
    @meshei9536 2 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    Just got here cuz one of Seventeen's song in their album is entitled "Don Quixote" and im so curious as to why they name that song like this and now I totally understand.

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  • @orionwesley
    @orionwesley 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1014

    I've never read it, never had a desire to, I'll admit that I had a preconceived notion about it that set my mind never to but now I'd like to read it! Thanks TED-Ed.

    • @quidohmi9286
      @quidohmi9286 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Why?

    • @SoAS26
      @SoAS26 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      True! I also never wanted to read it before seeing this video. I always thought it was a overrated book.

    • @viviananavarrete8661
      @viviananavarrete8661 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It’s a beautiful book. There’s so much meaning in everything. In school you have to read it and I learned that whatever society tells you, even when something seems imposible, you can face the wind mills

    • @TheShapingSickness
      @TheShapingSickness 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Back in high school they forced us to read this book. I hated it with a passion, I couldn't finish the first page.
      The exams were near and I refused to read it, my mom offered to read it out loud for me, I said yes. After the first chapter I realized I wasn't even understanding anything the words said.
      My native Spanish is very different from Spain's Spanish, and it's even more different than Spain's 1600's Spanish.
      I gave up, did the exams anyways and never read it.
      I think this book really killed any desire for me to read books. Six or seven years passed until I read the first book since my failed attempt at Don Quijote, I read Nietzche El Anticristo, I kept it hidden from my parents since they're deeply religious.
      Eight more years have passed since I read that and I've now created for me the habit of reading, it is so wonderful that I regret all those years wasted.
      Maybe someday I'll read Don Quijote.

    • @phatcrayonz
      @phatcrayonz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Isaac Campos all that to tell us that.

  • @hazzah5450
    @hazzah5450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +360

    I feel like Don Quixote is a fantastic novel to read and explore for such an idealistic generation as the one I am in, Gen Z/Millenials. The novel offers a provoking dissection of both the potential of idealism and romanticism to be a boon to an individual’s world outlook and an inherently cynical society, as well as the drawbacks of less grounded thought and a general lack of realism. Super cool :)

    • @seanwieland9763
      @seanwieland9763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Don Quixote was the original Social Justice Warrior radicalized by Academia.

    • @marcopolo9146
      @marcopolo9146 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You’re funny “idealistic generation”. Good one!!

    • @erezsolomon3838
      @erezsolomon3838 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@marcopolo9146 what do you mean by that (genuinely curious)?

    • @andymcmahon6096
      @andymcmahon6096 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very well said!

    • @joesenior4069
      @joesenior4069 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great insight

  • @rickesteves4783
    @rickesteves4783 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    "I know who I am and who I can be if I choose "- Don Quixote.

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    @Autumn-Rain1122 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

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  • @williamthefloridano
    @williamthefloridano 4 ปีที่แล้ว +745

    “Why You Should Read Don Quixote”
    Because it’s hilarious.

  • @BobMcCoy
    @BobMcCoy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +579

    *The Intro music always gets my juices flowing*

  • @quantum5095
    @quantum5095 2 ปีที่แล้ว +878

    seventeen changed my life.....after listening to their song called Don Quixote I'm actually interested to read the book

    • @lovejungwonie863
      @lovejungwonie863 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      I'm pretty sure carats searched Don Quixote so much that TH-cam recommended this video😂😂 it's my favorite song from the new album ahh!! Who is your bias?

    • @jinriepark7868
      @jinriepark7868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      lol 🤣 I clicked this video (suggested to me), and wonder if I’ll see a Carat’s comment 🤣
      my bias is Wonwoo 💖

    • @lovejungwonie863
      @lovejungwonie863 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@jinriepark7868 awesome!! Hehe my bias is woozi

    • @feet.dino_
      @feet.dino_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      so fun to see carats here!!

    • @unifact_vobo
      @unifact_vobo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Agreee

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    @eee7931 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

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    @ItsPhilipBryan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

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      @jackedbeastlifts 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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    • @franciscoreza8295
      @franciscoreza8295 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@jackedbeastlifts jacked beast here missed the point of the novel

  • @godeatingbird733
    @godeatingbird733 ปีที่แล้ว +44

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      @slpyhed ปีที่แล้ว +12

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      @ddean1 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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    @RenoKyrie 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

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  • @brings2520
    @brings2520 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    MANAGER ESQUIRE!!!!

    • @larsthememelord3383
      @larsthememelord3383 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      “GALLOP ON ROCINANTE, JUSTICE SHALL PREVAIL.”

  • @MariaRamirez-328
    @MariaRamirez-328 5 ปีที่แล้ว +605

    I read this in high school for my Spanish literature class. Everyone thinks it's too boring or long to read, but it's completely worth it. Hopefully this video makes people give it a chance. Beautiful

    • @jibaritomx
      @jibaritomx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I find this book funny..

    • @angelswrld.
      @angelswrld. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What is meta-awareness? How is it included in the second volume of Don Quixote?

    • @le_r0se948
      @le_r0se948 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@angelswrld. uh I'm three months late but I hope you need the explanation regardless lol. Don Quijote and Sancho Panza, in the second book, encounter people that have read the first book and try to mess with them to 'recreate' and experience in real life what they read in said first book. They also make some reference (I don't remember how) to the false second part, published to make fun of the official first book (el Quijote de Avellaneda). See, Cervantes had some beef with Lope de Vega (another famous Spaniard author) so it is said that he's the author of the second false novel; he uses it to insult both cervantes and his work, and Cervantes retorts with the official second part

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I suggest using an audiobook and following along on hard copy. Then you'll have momentum.

    • @EdvinLaura
      @EdvinLaura ปีที่แล้ว

      it is boring and this video is a better not boring version of the book ))

  • @Linhdoesstuff
    @Linhdoesstuff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +469

    My literature textbook has this story, as an excerpt and I just studied it a few days ago. It was good, hilarious and sarcastic, I actually want to buy the book now

    • @thanhbinhtruong1986
      @thanhbinhtruong1986 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nổi tiếng quá có trong sách Ngữ văn luôn :))

    • @Linhdoesstuff
      @Linhdoesstuff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thanhbinhtruong1986 Đúng rồi.

    • @bilbonedabunny241
      @bilbonedabunny241 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep, mới học mấy tuần nay. Lũ bạn cứ cho là bài này nhảm không cảm nhận được nhiều như văn học Việt nhưng tui thấy nó cũng không đến nỗi tệ, hoặc do tụi nó không hợp với mấy chuyện này

    • @le.hwongisvibing
      @le.hwongisvibing 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My classmates laughed a lot. My teacher said it was a very meaningful and funny story, but I (and all my classmates, I think) found it funny more. LOL

    • @SWNerd
      @SWNerd 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Linh Lê there’s a free version on apple

  • @lujin914
    @lujin914 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Here after listening to Seventeens Don Quixote

  • @xcaleebur
    @xcaleebur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    who's here after svt released don quixote 😬😬

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    @b12zturtelz29 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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  • @ic4nsu
    @ic4nsu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    i really wasn't expecting carats in the comments

  • @micahthelibra
    @micahthelibra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    came here because of SEVENTEEN's b-side track on their album face the sun 😭💗

  • @alegraasita1575
    @alegraasita1575 2 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    Now I understand the message SEVENTEEN was portraying 😭😭

  • @sanpai6785
    @sanpai6785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    They wrote a book on the guy from "One Piece"

    • @siddharthyadav8007
      @siddharthyadav8007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Doflamingo

    • @babo3009
      @babo3009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Finally someone 😂

    • @vaibhav1180
      @vaibhav1180 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Was looking for One Piece reference in the comment section XD

    • @siddharthyadav8007
      @siddharthyadav8007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@vaibhav1180 a man of culture

    • @Leafeon-gd5en
      @Leafeon-gd5en 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Lmao. Its interesting to think that oda possiblly named the character after this book

  • @edgaraldana3205
    @edgaraldana3205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +354

    “If you don't laugh reading Don Quixote, you're not reading it properly”
    - Mario Vargas Llosa.

    • @vincentanguoni8938
      @vincentanguoni8938 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice!

    • @filipljubicic1268
      @filipljubicic1268 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Most boring book I have ever read

    • @edgaraldana3205
      @edgaraldana3205 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@filipljubicic1268 or did you?

    • @jaimes.5314
      @jaimes.5314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm a keen reader and I understand why people found it funny, but reading in ancient Spanish while getting on with a wicked humour can make it boring. That's why they should read it by the development, hidden messages, plot... Bcs it is a try masterpiece

    • @Ratchet2431
      @Ratchet2431 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jaimes.5314 The aancient Spanish can sometimes be difficult, but if you manage to immerse yourself in the book you will find the best tragicomedy that can exist in the world.

  • @trisha7894
    @trisha7894 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    i listened to svt's don quixote many times that this got recommended in my youtube

  • @dibie6874
    @dibie6874 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Im here after listening to svt's don quixote.

  • @kaekae4010
    @kaekae4010 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    It is very interesting to read it and to know both the time that Spain was passing through in the 17th century, and the life that Cervantes had (which is impressive). I read it as a teenager while I was studying literature (since it is almost 'mandatory' to at least know it in depth), the story grabs you little by little and doesn't let go until the end.
    Don Quixote will always be timeless because the feeling and what it transmits is recognizable in every human being. It is the force of love.

  • @audrreyks
    @audrreyks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    reminds me of that seventeen song

  • @pinksweat5012
    @pinksweat5012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Ahmmm...just gonna share the reason that I am here because I wanted to know what Seventeen's song entitled Don Quixote means

  • @sitafitriani5732
    @sitafitriani5732 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    This is recommended to me because of seventeen's new song called don quixote 😭😭

    • @WonHuiKyeomBoo
      @WonHuiKyeomBoo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I thought I'm the only one 🤣😭

    • @17star85
      @17star85 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Omg same!

  • @crazyplayingguy9676
    @crazyplayingguy9676 5 ปีที่แล้ว +423

    The most important message from this book is “Vivir loco, morir cuerdo!” Which means live out your best life with no regret, only regret when you are about to die. Quijote died regretting acting on illusions and came to his senses on his last minutes but everyone else whom had been his acquaintance turned like him, with dreams and aspirations of being their greatest self and wanting Quijote to go back to his old self, the roles are reversed. You also forgot to mention how the second half was published under a fake Arabic author whom he created to avoid conflict with the church. Cervantes was just a straight genius.

    • @ahsanarshad3457
      @ahsanarshad3457 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Wow! You know alot about this

    • @Cvarcer
      @Cvarcer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I'm sorry to tell you but you did not understand anything

    • @arthurmanjarres1077
      @arthurmanjarres1077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lol that’s not what that means at all 😂😭

    • @jana8977
      @jana8977 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      You didn’t have to spoil the ending

    • @polarhack222
      @polarhack222 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      no, its more a criticism of idealizing knights and medieval chivalry

  • @abcdaniii2942
    @abcdaniii2942 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Here after Seventeen released a song about Don Quixote~🔥

  • @Twitch-Ez
    @Twitch-Ez ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Luis sera brought me here 💔

  • @n.p.4954
    @n.p.4954 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    Any limbus company fan around here?

  • @alyssakayeeleria5127
    @alyssakayeeleria5127 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Im here because youtube suggested it but I clicked the video because of the don quixote song of seventeen hehe

  • @hope7450
    @hope7450 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    seventeen really brought some of us here

  • @luckyadrianhutapea
    @luckyadrianhutapea 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Seventeen also made a song inspired inspired by this story

  • @ic4nsu
    @ic4nsu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    feeling like don quixote~

  • @chagon4432
    @chagon4432 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    so come and call me don quixote~

  • @deerlalu
    @deerlalu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I was curious of don quixote because of seventeen.
    Dino become don quixote

  • @mel_loving.17
    @mel_loving.17 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    TH-cam sending me here for streaming newly released, Don Quixote by SEVENTEEN

  • @inserttext7415
    @inserttext7415 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2648

    Joe brought me here

    • @chrissys8996
      @chrissys8996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      12. same 🙈🙈

    • @hansolo1983
      @hansolo1983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Joe who?

    • @chrissys8996
      @chrissys8996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +189

      @@hansolo1983 joe mama

    • @nanabees7587
      @nanabees7587 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      oofy damn you really did it to em

    • @chrissys8996
      @chrissys8996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Nnnn had to do it to em 😂 👌

  • @husnadellah7822
    @husnadellah7822 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    seventeen brought me here!!

  • @b_iancs
    @b_iancs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    here because of seventeen’s don quixote

  • @valentinaforjesus
    @valentinaforjesus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Here after seventeen’s don quixote

  • @taybabycarat
    @taybabycarat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I get to know about it from Seventeen's song

  • @yoyiyuki
    @yoyiyuki 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    are there... any carats here....

  • @horangishiseon9765
    @horangishiseon9765 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I'm here after listening seventeen's don quixote

  • @frida1254
    @frida1254 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I recommend you to read Don Quixote while listening to Don Quixote by Seventeen

  • @ariunjargalm1708
    @ariunjargalm1708 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Because of don quixote by seventeen

  • @sitikhafidzahmufti9304
    @sitikhafidzahmufti9304 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Here after knowing one of seventeen song have the same title:)

  • @17star85
    @17star85 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Seventeen song Don Quixote bring me here

  • @putrinauli7809
    @putrinauli7809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    come here just because seventeen having this as their title song

  • @ejaiemp
    @ejaiemp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Not me who clicked this because of Seventeen K-pop group with Don Quixote song title.
    Only Carats can relate.

  • @sebastiant.3588
    @sebastiant.3588 5 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    "En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero..."
    Those first words of the original text in spanish always remind me of my first lecture of the book, i spent the whole morning reading and didn't
    pay attention to any of my classes, i was completely catched by Don Quijote's epic adventures and heroic actions. That was one of the happiest
    mornings in my entire life.

    • @JuanSanchez-qt1ue
      @JuanSanchez-qt1ue 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sebastian T. Those words are just so epic. You know is gonna be a good read when it starts like that

    • @RAMSESXZ
      @RAMSESXZ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Todo un capo el Quijote

  • @08.cloudynaryan64
    @08.cloudynaryan64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    why..? why im here? oh.. it's bcs seventeen face the sun side-track

  • @adisoo3396
    @adisoo3396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I’m here from the seventeen song “Don Quixote”

  • @Darkem-ur5ho
    @Darkem-ur5ho 5 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    I would read it but im far too busy fighting these damn giants

    • @mewsingsbynatk
      @mewsingsbynatk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I'm pretty those are windmills, not giants.

    • @gabriel-de8yv
      @gabriel-de8yv 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good' un

  • @nisha3377
    @nisha3377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    My hands up

  • @shrine_maiden
    @shrine_maiden 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    My hands up, I keep 'em high

    • @amichiru8687
      @amichiru8687 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      두려운 건 내 속에 나
      내 모든 걸 걸겠어 난
      So Imma light it up, light it up

  • @hangyulim_
    @hangyulim_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Found some carats here

  • @izannepu7390
    @izannepu7390 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Ain’t that the seventeen song

  • @ashley7254
    @ashley7254 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Woah is this a sign, I was literally scrolling through yt after streaming SEVENTEEN's DON QUIXOTE song

  • @maineduvlog
    @maineduvlog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    bcos svt made a song about it…

  • @primus6211
    @primus6211 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    i'm here because of seventeen ✨

  • @superiorgaming8086
    @superiorgaming8086 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The Adventure of Luis Sera and Leon Kennedy to rescue Princess Ashley Graham

  • @princeflame295
    @princeflame295 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Who’s here after listening to Seventeen’s Don Quixote song? #FaceTheSun

  • @lijemayne4287
    @lijemayne4287 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Here from listening to Don Quixote by SEVENTEEN. So curious what the tale is about.

  • @aelanmy
    @aelanmy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    svt don quixote

  • @brightafterrain_
    @brightafterrain_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    this video suddenly come to my timeline.. maybe because I heard "don quixote"
    A song from Korean group "Seventeen"

  • @powerpuffhae
    @powerpuffhae 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    summoned the whole caratland population

    • @daniyaf3729
      @daniyaf3729 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol i came here after their live performance of don quixote😂

  • @kyeompijja5593
    @kyeompijja5593 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    i was here bcs seventeen release song, and the title is “don quixote”😃

  • @gyeolchergae
    @gyeolchergae 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Any other CARATs here?

  • @mhalevinoyeptho9296
    @mhalevinoyeptho9296 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I see my fellow carats here. 🔥

  • @yeojin6759
    @yeojin6759 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    not this ending up in my recommended after listening to seventeen's new b-side Don Quixote >>

  • @pao7671
    @pao7671 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Carat here hahhha stream don quixote❤

  • @shofiakhairina2848
    @shofiakhairina2848 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Who's here after listened seventeen new song DON QUIXOTE?

  • @mohammadfo8765
    @mohammadfo8765 5 ปีที่แล้ว +416

    Don't Quixote was for Albert Einstein the best character that affected him personally... for these who finish reading the novel don't forget to watch the movie "Man of lamansha": to dream the impossible dream.
    Don Quixote changed my life
    He teached me that it's really crazy to be dreamer and a moral person in a hateful world BUT it will be worthy. When I finished the novel I missed Don Quixote very much and I cried. It was the same feeling when you farewell a great friend

  • @rudymahajan7817
    @rudymahajan7817 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So far I have read every single one of your recommended books. Thank you so mouch for sharing these! I can enjoy then so much more and would never have known about them without you.

  • @elaks9523
    @elaks9523 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Don Quixote sounds like SVSSS of fantasy novels, ngl. who's here after hearing 17s' Don Quixote. fits the vibe, perfectly

  • @rinindibox4906
    @rinindibox4906 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Who's here after listening to Seventeen's Don Quixote?

  • @eileentai7446
    @eileentai7446 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I am here seeing this video after hearing seventeen don quixote ^_^

  • @P1NKBLUSH
    @P1NKBLUSH 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love all the “Why You Should Read...” videos! Gotten so many great book recommendations from Ted Ed. More of them pretty please!! 🙏

  • @sugaarush2774
    @sugaarush2774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I LOVE THE VIDEO! Who's here after don quixote became their favorite song? 👍✨

  • @cherry_summer605
    @cherry_summer605 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Kpop group Seventeen introduced me to Don Quixote but I have nooo idea what don quixote means so maybe youtube recommended me this to let me know what don quixote means