Don Quixote: Cervantes’ Masterpiece and Its Impact
Don Quixote
Genesis of the Work
Don Quixote is Cervantes’ masterpiece. It consists of two parts: the first appeared in 1605 with the title The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote, which was successful and was reissued. The second was published in 1615, titled The Ingenious Knight Don Quixote.
The main plot is the story of a poor gentleman who lost his mind from reading books of chivalry. His madness moves him to take to the field with weapons to redress wrongs, guided by his lady love. Adventures happen,
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Context
The years of World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945) correspond to one of the most acute periods of cultural creation in Europe, which resulted in Modernist literature and art. The name avant-garde refers to a series of literary and artistic attitudes that had in common the desire to revolt against and reject the methods and criteria immediately consolidated by traditional precedent. This crisis was realized due to the impact of war, which extended to the political failure of
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Literary Language: Genres, Narrative, and Description
Literary Communication
The literary text has several distinguishing elements:
- Issuer: The issuer of the literary work is called author. This role requires specific skills in linguistic expression.
- Receiver: The receiver is the reader, any potential reader, present or future, a universal receiver. To achieve genuine communication, the reader must interpret the text and attribute meaning. The absence of a single, unequivocal meaning in literary texts
Themes in The House of Bernarda Alba: Freedom, Love, and Hypocrisy
Thematic Groups in The House of Bernarda Alba
The central theme of the play is the clash between a traditional, authoritarian figure, Bernarda, and the desire for freedom, represented by her mother (Maria Josefa) and her daughter Adela. It’s a conflict between two attitudes about life and two ideologies. First, we have Bernarda’s attitude, which stands for a life dominated by appearances and a morality based on traditional authoritarianism. On the other hand, we have a liberal attitude. In the play,
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