Susan Sterr Ryan / English 3
Paper Topics
for Don Quixote, due Monday, June 2, choose one:
How is Don Quixote at the end of Book 2 different from the character we met in Book 1? How has Sancho Panza been changed by his adventures with Quixote? Define the changes you see in both characters. What is responsible, as best you can discern, for those changes? Finally, have you, the reader, been changed in any way by your encounter with Quixote? Explain.
By the end of book, what has happened to the tension between imagination and reality? Which has won out? Has either? Explain.
Is Don Quixote an optimistic or a pessimistic work? What marks it as a Renaissance work? What about it is "modern"? Please provide specific examples.