“Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.”
Does Quixote himself say it? Is Cas being compared to Don Quixote? His attempts to execute Heaven’s missions (like tracking down rogue angels) comparable to Quixote’s delusional tilting at windmills??
Wow there’s some serious meta in that I wish i had more time to think about it!
if i’m not mistaken, don quixote does everything he does in order to impress the woman he loves, whom he sees as a noblewoman but is in fact a peasant, someone who’s worth nothing. dean is referred to as a ‘back-road nothing’ by jacob styne. i’m not saying what i’m saying, but yeah i’m saying it. don quixote acts all noble but in fact he acts to impress the person he’s in love with. compare it to a certain metatron quote about cas doing everything just for one man…
thank you for not saying what you’re saying but still saying it!
well said
heh
(best not to compare Quixote’s love for his
Dulcinea too closely to Cas and dean tho – the point with Quixote was that the woman was a stranger to him and he basically picked her to call his true love at random because according to him a true knight needed a woman to love from afar, part of what is called the “courtly love tradition,” so what he loved wasn’t the woman herself but a FICTION of a woman he projected onto her… I would say Dean’s feelings for Lisa fit Quixote’s for Dulcinea a bit closer…)
Also, IIRC, Don Quixote and Dulcinea/Aldonza never even speak to each other in the book. Sancho knows her but that’s it. I remember the first time I read it being exasperated that nothing at all ever happens. And it’s a super long book for nothing to happen in, too!
The musical is different and they do speak and she even reciprocates his love by the end (though it’s too late).
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