Don Quixote and Christ Jesus
Don Quixote is a popular foreign novel in Japan. Even a big chain store company in Japan has adopts "Don Quixote" for its company name.
But few in Japan regard Don Quixote as a unique type of followers of Christ Jesus.
Don Quixote and Jesus Christ: The suffering “Idealists” of Modern Religion
Rebekah Marzhan
(Hamline University, Minnesota USA)
The figure of Don Quixote has always been seen as a character symbolizing the absurdity of idealistic pursuits. As such, countless generations have been able to temporally appropriate this medieval knight as representative of their own historical situation. Through a lineage of poetry, essays, novels, and scholarship, great thinkers have lifted the spirit of Quixote from Cervantes’ pages and revived the heralded knight of folly as a symbol of the incongruous place of not only faith in ideals but faith of a religious or spiritual nature in the modern, rational world. While this progression of thought has been well developed and explored through literary movements, modern illustrations of Don Quixote have been largely neglected in scholarship. Thus, to see how Don Quixote’s spirit has been revived visually in the twentieth century, scholars may turn to the work of Salvador Dalí. Through a series of illustrations for a 1945 edition of Quixote, Dalí utilizes the iconography of Jesus Christ to express Don Quixote as an irrational figure who suffers for his idealistic pursuits.
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Through a series of illustrations for a 1945 edition of Quixote, Dalí utilizes the iconography of Jesus Christ to express Don Quixote as an irrational figure who suffers for his idealistic pursuits.
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Thus, one of the most important parallels between Don Quixote and Christ lies in this idea of suffering for ones faith, for “he [Don Quixote] became the Spanish Christ because he, like Jesus, suffered the ‘passion’ of mockery.”[20] The conclusion of this piece affirms Unamuno’s pologetic of Don Quixote as the “symbolic catalyst to Christian renewal within the spiritually modern world.”[21]Since the time of Unamuno, many other writers and scholars have continued to affirm the Christ-like connections of Don Quixote.
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 – 1616) must have been influenced by Muslims who were leaving Spain at the time. Saavedra also experienced a state of slavery for five years in Algeria. He also died in the same year as William Shakespeare died. Cervantes also joined Infantería de Marina and experienced the power shift from Spain to England through Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).
With Shakespeare England later became the global power, but with Cervantes Spain later gave up its hegemony in the seas of the world. History is really difficult for any readers.
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Mar 6:25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.