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Europe's feudal era - the Middle Ages, Christian and feudal aristocracy to rule the era of European society, and Knight is one of the tools that maintain the feudal rule, so the knight system came into being. With the continuous improvement of the Knight class status in the history of European literature reflect the knight of chivalry and lifestyle literature. Cavalier Literature Knight lyrics, Knight legend, chivalric romances three types. Because of the of advocating military exploits adventure and Courtly Love and content features more in line with the aesthetic needs at the time, once popular in the whole of Europe, and had a considerable impact, even in the Renaissance period of vigorous development is still in the development of the popular chivalric romance in Spain is a powerful example. Knight system, after all, is the product of a specific historical stage, chivalry reasonable to some extent, but in the end are the medieval area of ??ideology, and thus bound with the feudal system as its ideology, Cavalier Literature increasingly collapse and decline. To the Renaissance as a knight literature the main representative form of chivalric romances in addition to outdated ideology, stereotyped structure, the plot is absurd to read lengthy, the narrative complex and character's personality and appearance the same, the central idea with similar, no longer meet the requirements of the development of literature. As Humanism and works generated knight literature on the artistic value expressive difficult. The the Spanish humanist writer Cervantes book Don Quixote \Novel shape a modern sense, beyond the constraints of time typical image of a pride of reason and folly, mystery and faith, as well as Knight rolled into one windmill fighter, gentleman, visionary, reckless madness - Don Quixote , its purpose is to \Of knight literature criticism, mainly from the macro-and micro two angle. Macro performance of works humanities Fengyi ideological weapon knight literature the survival of the feudal system and knights system, bitterly attacked the knight Stylistic, ideas, and performance practices; micro Knight literature negative abandon backward literary form, in order to achieve the purpose of advocating the spirit of humanism. Pessimistic fate of Don Quixote fundamental reason is caused by the dislocation of the times. In the late Renaissance, Humanism has occupied the dominant position of the ideological, Don Quixote fantasy reconstruction of the social ideals of the feudal era, restoring an outdated system of chivalry, which will inevitably lead to great ironic effect. From the point of view of literature and art, \and absurd acts, with the hero of the novel Knight fate suspension, contrast, had a strong satirical effect, in order to achieve the purpose of knight literature buried in laughter, so that readers wake up from the fantasy, a clear understanding of the Knights of literature essence. In addition, the novel description approaches through the use of contrast highlights the critical themes, from between the characters (mainly between Don Quixote and Sancho), the duality between cells of the same character, between the virtual world and the real world, the reality 'creative approach with fictional comparison to reveal the author's intention. Therefore we can say that the critical themes of the entire novel is to be reflected in the various conflicts that cutting process, reality and imagination, wisdom and folly, the sublime and the ridiculous, courage and cowardice, honesty and hypocrisy, reason and madness, ... these against each other contradictions are closely intertwined, the level of the fiction more clearly, the character is more prominent, and thus make the critical themes deepened.
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