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In five pages this paper compares and contrasts the impact of reading romantic fantasy and the actual reality of life affect the protagonists of these novels by Miguel de Cervantes and Gustave Flaubert. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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of everyday life. Don Quixote, the protagonist of Miguel de Cervantes classical epic Don Quixote of la Mancha, was a solitary, middle-aged bachelor named Alonso Quixana who wanted more
out of life than the predictable routine of boiled meat during the week and omelets on Saturdays. He wanted swashbuckling adventure and romance. In other words, everything his
real life lacked. Quixana became a student of knighthood to the point that he looked, sounded, and ultimately lived like one. Emma Bovary, heroine of Gustave Flauberts Madame
Bovary: Life in a Country Town, was always dreaming of being someone other than the simple country girl she was. She longed for exotic travel and the love of
a wealthy aesthete who appreciated the finer things as much as she did (and that her husband Dr. Charles Bovary did not). Emma wanted to hear constant violins whenever
her lover spoke and enjoy uninterrupted pleasure without obligations or responsibilities to anyone but herself. The illusion was easier to maintain for the instant gratification it provided than to
work at realizing the fantasy. For Don Quixote, they represented the opportunity of a lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero
like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old well-to-do country bachelor consists mostly of idle time, during which Alonso Quixana "gave himself
up to the reading of books of chivalry, with so much attachment and relish" (Cervantes 21-22). He would struggle to understand the meaning of the language so he could
become one of those eloquent knights who used poetry to woo their fair maidens. These books gave the aging mans life a sense of purpose he had not experienced
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