Don Quixote - Thug Notes Summary & Analysis
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Don Quixote [1605 (Part One) / 1615 (Part Two)]
by Miguel de Cervantes
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And then Terry Gilliam lost his mind trying to adapt it into a feature film. Meta as fuck.
+RoboJules Doctor Parnassus or Baron Munchausen is probably close to what we'll get to the film if he doesn't make it.
+Minespatch the channel doctor parnassus went right over my head when is aw it
skaterdude7277
It's a morality play. It's a more existential film alongside Alejandro Jodowrosky's Holy Mountain.
i got that, but sometimes things happen at random. kind of legendary that they worked through heath ledgers death.
+RoboJules Orson Welles spent 30 years trying to make a movie of it and his child stars grew up over the course of production!
This is one of the saddest stories of all time. He truly had passion to be good, and In the end he realized it didn't even matter. Wowwwwwwww.
dang that's dope yo
What? No, in the end his adventures ended up resolving a pretty big argument between four people. His actions end up reuniting Cardenio and Lucinda, allowing them to happily marry and he also reforms Don Fernando, letting him see what a great woman Dorotea is and convincing him to marry her. The second sally ends with Don Quixote being praised by the two new couples, who would have otherwise lived in complete misery had his actions not resulted in their reunions.
+Mosixman LOL, My reaction to this book and to Madame Bovary: "Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww."! xD
He was lied to though; it did matter, and his story will live forever.
Such is growing up.
"old-school homie plato"
has probably never been said before
unfortunately
BARSCIENCE101
pin the tale on the donkey
Nah def said in many schools
The band "They Might Be Giants" takes it's name from the part in this book where they come upon the windmills.
What I love is that event in the book takes place in just one paragraph, and has little relevance to the story, but it sets the whole context of the novel's narrative.
and in between, iirc, a movie in which George C. Scott's character thinks he's Sherlock Holmes.
This is the funniest way to explain "El Quijote" by far.
Greetings from Spain.
Quixote*
@@dynamix5119 Different language different spelling. Like "color" and "colour".
@@bleepbloop6234 I speak Spanish you crack
@@bleepbloop6234 it just that Quixote is a name. And not just whatever word. You wouldn't want your name to be corrected to a simpler spelling version would you?
@@KoPLeaderKiactu "Color" gang
This book has one of my favorite quotes: "Hunger is the best sauce in the world".
+Eamon Burke "Hunger is the best sauce" is a saying my father often used when dinner was late in coming... so I have mixed feelings about that quotation.
+Cormac Linehan what's in your mixture? hate and love i'm guessing.
My dad quoted that today.
I finally started reading Don Quixote yesterday, and about 116 pages in, I'm already bummed the eff out. He seems to have some kind of dementia, his behavior reminds me a lot of my late ste-grandmother who had Alzheimer's, and their behavioral symtpoms match up quite a bit. But it seems like don really had good intentions underneath the madness.
Yes undertandabley. I took me about three tries. Fonallymaking headeay to this uniquie novel. stick with it. Check out the lectures onRUclips for abetter approachto. reading the novel.Frankly, now i can't put it down!
A year late but "don" is a really old fashioned way of saying "sir" or "mister" in spanish, so his name would be Quixote not don
Ah, finally! I once did a presentation on Don Quixote, comparing it to Kick-Ass. Got a 98.
...holy shit that's brilliant! Congrats & well done man!
Tony Torrez Thanks! To be honest, I'm surprised I did as well as I did.
+Slashbash Well played.
Ben Aaron Thanks! Originally, I was gonna compare it to Madame Bovary, but I never read it. Kick-Ass just came to me when I was looking at myself in the mirror.
+Slashbash Great choice of comparison, the comic especially has definite parallels. Congrats on the success
“Sancho gets up on his ass” I laughed way too hard at this 😂😂😂
This is one of the best summaries of Don Quixote I've come across. I love the format, it's comically unpretentious and easy to understand yet incredibly witty and profound. This great work is so relatable to all walks of life. To all my homies tilting at windmills, ride on! Don't let the enchanters of the world win and prevent you from achieving glory or finding your Lady Dulcinea del Toboso!
In addition to the part on deception I enjoyed a mirroring between the first and second half. In the former Don Quixote confused the mundane for things fitting for a knight; like sheep for armies and an inn for a castle. In the latter half he comes to actually be in a castle, show bravery against a beast and fight a peeeeeeved rabble of an army. And this is all because of what he did in the first half. In a sense, his madness allowed him to have some experiences fitting the rules of chivalry, which he so much desired.
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star
(Man of La Mancha - Impossible Dream)
Just reading that brought tears to my eyes. RIP Tata ❤️
After almost 40 years of hearing about Don Quixote( almost every Spanish speaking student knows the first sentence of the book) , I just finished reading it a couple of months ago.
Had I known the book was so good and funny I had read it long ago.
I have also to confess that, for any modern Spanish speaker, 1000 pages ( 2 parts) of a book written in basically old spanish is a bit intimidating, but it is worthy.
"Had I know the book was so good...." Same and I read it at 22.
Now at 32 I'm trying to make time for a second read.
As a modern spanish speaker (México), the book didn't feel intimidating. At times, the language felt so close to home, almost like hearing my grandparents speak. That old Spanish isn't so hard to understand, save for some archaisms and specific vocabulary of its time.
The best parts of Don Quixote de la Mancha are the meanings of the words and places.
A Quixote is a thigh guard or inner thigh guard, and le Mancha is a backwater.
So if this was made today his name would be, "Sir Jockstrap of Saskatchewan,".
La Mancha is a place in Spain. There is a region called Castilla - La Mancha (to differentiate itself from Castilla y León)
Carlos Arias Alonso
At the time the book was written Le Mancha was a backwater, way out in the middle of nowhere.
Indigo Julze La Mancha is indeed region in Spain, but I agree that he probably picked the place because of the ambiguous meaning of the word.
He chose La Mancha because it seemed to him ridiculously non-epic. Like "Superman of Kansas" or something like that.
@@IndigoJulze La Mancha happened to be a backwater at the time, but the name doesn't mean "backwater."
so..this guy was basically Kick-ass before Kick-ass? awesome!!
I was thinking that too!
Loved this video! Don Quixote's one of my favorite books, and I loved how you said that Don Quixote lives on in the book and in our hearts. Also, fave little story in the book: When Sancho Panza put cottage cheese in Don Quixote's helmet, then Don Quixote put it on and thought his brains were melting. Too funny!
Fun Fact: my distant relative Thomas Shelton translated Don Quixote into English
Nice
Bet he was gay
Seems legit, showed a Thomas Shelton from the early 17th century
Fun Fact: my distant relative was Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last proper king of Wales.
Don Quixote- the original Florida man
You mean lolcow?
So, this is s story about the world's first cosplayer?
+EricLeafericson Sounds more like a LARPer
I'd say the world's first Moon Knight, but whatever floats your boat.
EricLeafericson No, cosplayers are just bourgeois dullards obsessed with film franchises and comic books. The Don is a visionary, a holy foo.
Don Quixote. The OG neckbeard
more like a weaboo..
8:14 Not an ounce of shame in that plug.
I see you everywhere.
a man saw a chance, a man took it.
U brought me to an ad
Finally!
+The Napoleonist You're an inspiration to us all
+The Napoleonist
hahahahaha, yeaaaaah!
+Lafayette “ChristmasSpacePresent” Roberson Never give up,brother! Keep forward
+The Napoleonist I did notice a theme at the very beginning...
My students would love to see a summary-analysis like this one because it makes the story so fun and vivid, and maintains the line of reasing in critical thinking. Unfortunately I can't show videos with bad words. The parents would become worried and maybe even furious. Lol. Thanks for sharing though!
If Cervantes could watch this review, he would probably write a book inspired on you.
*The Truth About Sancho Panza*
Without making any boast of it Sancho Panza succeeded in the course of years, by feeding him a great number of romances of chivalry and adventure in the evening and night hours, in so diverting from himself his demon, whom he later called Don Quixote, that this demon thereupon set out, uninhibited, on the maddest exploits, which, however, for the lack of a preordained object, which should have been Sancho Panza himself, harmed nobody. A free man, Sancho Panza philosophically followed Don Quixote on his crusades, perhaps out of a sense of responsibility, and had of them a great and edifying entertainment to the end of his days.
Huh. Who woulda thunk it.
I love Don Quixote because he was just a player who wanted to have fun. Ball till you fall.
"En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho que vivía un hidalgo, de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor."
Thank you for this! I'd love to see an episode on The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Oh lord
Sparky Sweets says "done".
I love how the argument that Socrates used is the same exact same argument that people use today for violence in video games.
do Siddhartha!
Did it! ruclips.net/video/QQWnCNRq13E/видео.html
+Wisecrack Any chance you'll read Cyrano DeBergerac since he quoted Don Quixote?
Yeah. Siddharta by Herman Hesse
Don Quixote, chunibyo before chunibyo was a thing.
LMFAOOOO
college professor: "Your homework is to look up who Don Quixote is"
me: *goes straight to thug notes*
I keep telling myself "Ok, one more, but this is definitely the last Thug Notes video I'll see today", but I can't stop watching them
Do a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy man
+nymersic or is that just the author's deception
I Know, I Had No Idea What The Hell Was Happening.
this is my favorite video you've done! I love how you sand up for Don Quixote's ideologies.
This was a way epic summary. When I first heard a summary from my teacher, I was like "Okay."Now i'm like "That book sounds EPIC"
Awesome vid Dr. Sweetz!! Also been following the School of Life since your first recommendation back in the day. Thank you for helping us all become well rounded ballers man. Peace and mad respects!
I remember having to read this book for literature class and it was the most long ass book, very tedious and boring to me but what struck me at the end was the fact that it said "Don Quijote, el hidalgo que murió cuerdo y vivió loco" which translate to "Don Quixote, the nobleman who died sane and lived crazy"
That's actually a really beautiful quote
I would love to hear your take on Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
How ... How have I not heard of this book? How have I never heard of this premise? ... This sounds like the greatest tale ever told by man!!
Another great episode my man, keep up the great work
School of life is amazing, just like u guys
you are doing real good man. Respect. Keep spreading wisdom.
I can’t believe I just found out about Thug Notes. This is awesome! Love it.
I love !! This channel. The vibe. The analysis! The ingenuity! 🥇🤞🏽. Blessings to this whole team behind this page!! I let my kids watch it’s modernizing in a way that’s entertaining and enlightening! Bravo 👏🏽👏🏽
the knight of mirrors sounds like a character out of dark souls 1 or 2
Miyazaki is an avid reader
Carrasco is my favorite character, I'm taking a course on DQ this semester and it's actually a really great book!
You're amazing!! Not only are you summarizing amazing classic literature, but making it in a way that even people who hate reading would enjoy. Keep it up, man. You're awesome
(By the way, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde would be cool)
Wisecrack is probably the best YT channel, love your stuff!
Please cover the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Damn that one suggesting the book was hardcore.
Love your channel. Thanks for making it.
Sad thing is the first time I heard of Don Quiote was an episode of Wishbone. Then a cartoon series called The adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda. And now I learned they died a lonely death...
Dr. Sweets, you should consider doing James Joyce's Ulysses. I am interested in seeing how you would go about summarizing the book in your thug prose.
Do The master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov!
This
Yes, please do The Master and Margarita next! Please, please, pleaseeeeee!!!!
+Anna Presman Seconded!
yesssss
Is that a good book? I have a copy that is translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa V. I plan to read The Master and Margarita or Skinny Legs and All after I'm done with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
I read this book and loved every minute of it. I talked about little else the whole semester I was reading it. Thanks so much for doing it.
I'm glad this cannel acknowledges the work done by people outside the anglosaxon world.
How Oda worked this into One Piece?
One piece fans looking at this...
Great video! I dig it!
I also subscribed to the school of life last week while I was watching other Thug Notes videos!!
I really loved this, the way you work through the themes is great.
these vids are shockingly amazing
someone needs make a new comedy film out of Don Quixote
you are simply incredible. keep doing what youre doing sparky.
Love this review, and might be the best video about "Don Quixote" on RUclips. Well done sir and thank you!
BTW Thank you ThugNotes!
The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
One of the reasons I love borned as a Mexican is that I can read Don Quijote in all their beauty
Thanks Spain,such a great story
Thank you once again Sparky for another amazing overview and analysis. This book is one of the few whose importance was noted from the first publishing. Its inspired a tremendous amount of artwork as well. Many artist like Honoré Daumier have recreated scenes from the book in their work. Another theme I think the book touches upon is, what is the point of reading or learning something, if you don't ever get to understand it? Sure Alonso read many books, but apart from the themes of chivalry, what did he really learn from them. Every book, no matter how silly, has a message.
I really wanna read this book. I always wanted to ever since I read a passage or two back in like...10th grade? for an assignment. Idk, I never read the book in its entirety. But I was always drawn to it. XD Kinda makes me sad about the ending, though...
Could you do a summary and analysis on the thug notes book?
I love you guys for endorsing one of my favourite channels everrrr. One of the best on youtube.
'Teaches you some real shit about real life!' as Thug would put it
Love you Sparky!
Do Les misérables ! You've never done a video on a french book ! And god knows how french literature is great !
+Lord Retro One of the saddest and deeply touching novels I've ever read.
He covered Albert Camus's The Stranger.
Oh really ? It's great book, I'm gonna wtach the video Slademodo
+Lord Retro The count of monte cristo and the three musketeers were written by alexandre dumas. A frenchman.
Never done a Sicilian book.
Was Nacho Libre based off the main plot of this book?
Perhaps partially, but I think it was also based on a real-life wrestling priest.
I was just saying that it’s very rare to find black book reviewers and I stumbled upon this. And thank god because you’re the only reviewer who has got me gassed on this book, do yo thang thug
*cringe
Great book! It was long, but rarely a dull moment. I managed to finish it in a month. I would have finished it sooner, but during the time I was reading it, I had to do battle with some giants attacking my neighborhood and then some enchanters made me have to do chores and run errands so I was forced to step away for a while. If it weren't for these diversions, I could have finished this in week or two, as this book is a very addicting read.
Human all to human; great choice. Any chance of a thug notes philosophy?
you may call don Quijote's code of chivalry lies. I call the goals ;)
Do you know why I care about things like morals, truth, kindness, & determination? The reason is simple. I can always hope you will be better, but if I am not, I will never forget it. Ride on Don!
Even missing some important aspects, which were insulting to the powers at the time, and are again today, this is a very good summary. Perhaps someday, a movie will do the whole book its due justice, and not merely the story within the story.
Don Quixote is the craziest and most difficult shit to read in spanish... I loved it but my mind was so fucked hahahaha
Had to translate all of Chapter 1 for a spanish final in high school. I was in that seat sweating man jesus
Can you do Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes?
I second this!!
+Vanessa Bernal I negative one this.
Oh, that is such a great book.
@@vanessabernal6420 I third this!!
Another amazing analysis. I love this series :)
Aaah! thank you so much Sparky, Don Quixote was something grilled into me even in primary school (grew up in Spain duh!).Did you know there's some guy tweeting the whole book of Don Quixote line by line! its awesome.
remains of the day!!!!
I second this!!
6:48
Best moment
Thanks you! I was reading the book and this dude's shenanigans...geez, it had my head spinning.
I enjoy these thugs notes so much more than the ones on modern books. I loved hip hop growing up because rappers like Nas and Rakim would reference historical figures that you'd have to look up in order to understand the line or hear the original rhymes that people sample over and over....Knowing the original works gives us a better understand of current media...When an english teacher told me Scarface is basically a retelling of Macbeth it completely changed the way I looked storytelling. Great work guys, keep it up.
Do Ulysses by James Joyce.
I have a different view of Don Q: I think Cervantes was talking about something else: the Spanish Inquisition, which was trying to prove how religious and righteous they were by torturing and killing folks who disagreed with them. With that kind of mean-spirited religion, Cervantes couldn't come out and just say the Inquisition was the worst sinners in the land. So he told a story about a guy who really believed in Old School chivalry, honor, truth and all that--and the rest of the land called HIM crazy! Kinda like us going into Iraq and proving how much "better" we are than Saddam by torturing folks at Abu Ghraib; somebody is looking in the wrong side of the mirror.
monkeymouse could be, but Cervantes fought in the battle of Lepanto (where he lost his arm and was captured), this was the decisive battle in the war between Spain and the Ottomans (aka Turkey) to stop them from getting into Europe and spreading Islam. He made references to this battle with pride and the religious connotations were obvious, again Spain was trying to keep Turkey and Islam out of Europe. But it gets even more religious, Spain won the battle but he was captured while he was returning to Spain. He was imprisoned (btw that's when he started writing) and a Spanish Catholic religious order that was dedicated to freeing Christians paid off his way out of prison.
So it could be an allegory to the Inquisition, but taking his background into consideration, I really doubt he'd do any criticism to the Catholic Church.
In that light I should review both Cervantes' biography and the battle of Lepanto, although I doubt that a single battle would have determined whether Christianity survived or died in Europe; sounds kind of hyped.
monkeymouse well, as Cervantes said "fue la mayor batalla que los siglos han visto y verán, y yo estuve allí para verla" (it was the greatest battle the centuries have seen and will see, and I was there to see it myself) hahahha. Ok, that was probably a bit hyped but he was a writer, not a scientist or a historian. In any case, it was the decisive battle between Spain and the Ottomans, the Ottomans were the main Muslim power in the world and they threatened to invade Europe from the east, entering Austria by land and Greece by the sea. At that time Spain was the main power in Europe and the defender of the Christian faith, it was a close ally to Austria and Germany too, so it took the initiative in the defence even if the attack was not on Spanish soil. As I told you already, it was not just this battle, it was the decisive battle but there was a war with other battles as well. And yes, after this battle (and war) the Ottomans abandoned all hope of an all out invasion of Europe and the rest of the Muslim world had already started its decay so it was actually the battle that stopped the Muslims from conquering Europe, in a certain way.
According to brittanica.com: "Pius V died in 1572, and Venice made peace in 1573, surrendering Cyprus to the Turks. Thus, the battle had little lasting impact on Ottoman expansion, but it exerted a great effect on European morale."
monkeymouse Wikipedia says "the battle of Lepanto was the greatest naval battle in Western History since Classical Antiquity" and it also says "it was the turning point that ended Ottoman military expansion into the Mediterranean". Of course the Ottomans were still around for a lot more time and the war and constant fights did go on, but this battle was the big blow to the Ottoman forces, at least that's how I studied it in my History class, besides it also seems plausible and logical that a battle that size had some real lasting impact on the Ottomans.
The Ottomans may have taken some small pieces of land later on, but an all out invasion was no longer a possibility, proof to that is that it never happened and no major fight needed to be fought against them to accomplish that.
This is the best Thug Notes I've ever seen.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Excellent writing and very entertaining!
do Upton Sinclaire's The Jungle :D
Dafuq was this when I did an independent study of this book?
awesome episode!
My favourite book. Good job - respect!
Do "The Tale of Genji" XD
do a kafka book one of these days please
+Cyan Cat He did metamorphosis way back.
+Ben E "The Trial," may be too rough in light of current politics
Let me start by saying that I love your work and i'm glad you found a good career with an english degree. I would really love to hear the thug notes on "Candide", the several competing philosophies seam like perfect fodder for your realist interpretations.
I stopped 3 minutes into this. Never read it. Now I know I gotta. Thanks, Wisecrack. Thanks, Sparky!