The Fictional Woman vs. the Real-World Woman in Cervantes’ Don Quixote
The Fictional Woman vs. the Real-World Woman in Cervantes’ Don Quixote

Summary/Abstract: Our study presents the role that the vision of love has in the anti-chivalrous novel of Cervantes, Don Quixote. The most complex character of the entire work, Dulcinea is a great absence. By her, the novel denounces in a Renaissance style a great void of the chivalrous literature, the disability to experience love, but, at the same time, it illustrates the force of the female ideal in constructing the hero’s inner self.

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