Sancho Panza

Sancho Panza is the name of the rider and companion of adventures of Don Quichotte in the universally recognized book of the Spanish writer of the Siècle of gold Miguel de Cervantes.

It is not possible to speak about the knight to the sad figure , without referring to its trusty servant Sancho Panza. Famous Spanish literary work is certainly known universally by its central figure, Don Quichotte, but this one would not be a complete character if it were not accompanied in his adventures by sound dear Sancho Panza.

Participant in all his exploits , Sancho tried to reason Don Quichotte who had an imaginative spirit, so much it read tales of chivalry. Sancho judicious, is posed, moderating and - in a direction - it protects its Master. Sancho Panza is a peasant, close to Alonso Quijano (Don Quichotte). Hard, elementary, basic extraction, imprudent, vulgar, goinfre, marmot, but faithful to its lord. He has " little lead in the cervelle". It is the image which one has with the first access of Sancho Panza, but it is discovered gradually that its psychology is deeper, although it finishes while being contaminated by the word and the mentality of his Master.

The two characters are complementary: one could not exist without the different one. Sancho Panza is the perfect half of Don Quichotte. Sancho Panza holds a crucial role in the novel, and besides we start to know it as of the first chapter.

Don Quichotte and Sancho Panza indisputably form a very successful duet. They represent a Archétype which will be unceasingly included in the fictions: for example Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello, Astérix and Obélix, Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, Fine Huckleberry and Tom Sawyer, Zorro and Bernardo…

The episode of the windmills

In the novel, Sancho exclaims: “Which giants? ” when Don Quichotte believes to see giants sent by wizards where there are only windmills.

In this moment they discovered thirty or forty windmills that there is in this plain, and, as soon as gift Quichotte saw them, it says to its rider:

- fortune leads our business better than could not make a success of our desire there even. Look at, friendly Sancho; here in front of us at least thirty disproportionate giants, of which I think of fighting battle and of removing the life with all as long as they are. With their skins we will start to enrich us; because it is taken of good war, and it is largely to be used for God to make disappear so bad race from the face of the terre.

- Which giants? asked Sancho Panza.

- Those which you see over there, answered him its Master, with their large arms, because there are some who have them almost two miles length.

- thus Take guard, retorted Sancho, which we see over there are not giants, but windmills and what appears their arms, it is their wings, which, turned by the wind, make turn in their turn the grinding stone of the mill.

- One sees well, answered gift Quichotte, that you are not expert in fact of adventures: they are giants, say you I and, if you are afraid, is removed from there and will put to you in speech while I fight unequal and terrible battle to them.

While thus speaking, it gave spur to its Rossinante horse, without taking guard in the opinions of its Sancho rider, who shouted to him that undoubtedly they was windmills and not giants who it went attaquer.

Quotations on Sancho Panza

Franz Kafka, (Czech writer)

Sancho Panza, which was never praised some, succeeds besides during the years, by devouring stories of brigands and tales of chivalry during the nights and taken care, to entirely divert to self its démon.

It made so that this one - that it called Don Quichotte later - threw itself from now on without brake in the most insane adventures: they did not harm anybody fault of a predestined object which should have been precisely Sancho Panza.

Sancho Panza, perhaps mû by certain feeling of responsibility, Sancho Panza, which was an independent man, followed calmly Don Quichotte in its equipped and until its last day large and useful a distraction.

Günter Grass (German writer) drew some

The noble knight, the idealist, who fight against windmills, the dreamer which takes his hallucinations for reality, the odd one, the Master and his servant, the feet on the ground, the prosaic servant. It is a couple which we still find in our reality, at the same time allied and adversaries. It is a duet which resists times which changent.

Jose Saramago (Portuguese writer)

There we have two friends whose relation rests on the mutual respect and comprehension. Each of both can say other: He, it is true a ami.

Carme Riera (writer Catalan woman)

What interests me and touches me more, it is this friendly relation. Don Quichotte and Sancho Panza become true amis.

Dr. Rojas Marcos (psychological Spanish)

Don Quichotte deals with Sancho like father of her son. Just as Sancho deals with Don Quichotte as a young person would deal of father or grandfather who would have lost the tête. a little

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