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Essential Qualities And Accouterments Of A Knight In Don Quixote

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Throughout Don Quixote, we see the main character, named Quixada or Quesada due to different opinions, go throughout the chapter become a knight. According to him, the three to seven essential qualities and accouterments of such a knight are that a knight should have armor, ride on horseback, and doing knight errands. Knights should also solve problems no matter the danger and peril (4). Chivalry could have had a grasp on Quixote through his family. It is stated in paragraph 5 that his grandfather has obtained a suit of armor and that Quixote has kept it for years (5). His grandfather could have told his stories of old and could have an influence on Quixote. Possibly, the line of knights in his family could fill him with regret for drifting

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