I'm feeling really bad for Sancho. Poor guy is getting tossed around in blankets, beat up constantly, and now it seems he might have caught the insanity bug from Don Quixote. The group that is tricking Don Quixote with the fake princess seems to believe so because Sancho believes that Don Quixote could be an emperor.
But I am not convinced just yet that he is insane. Looking at Sancho's situation I think he has to believe that Don Quixote will succeed as a knight or he will not be able to get his island. Sancho is a peasant and working for Don Quixote is the only way he can see to provide for himself and his family.
The other reason I do not think he has jumped on the crazy train is because he plays along with the priest and the barber's plan to lead Don Quixote back. He doesn't carry out Don Quixote's instructions to visit the Lady Dulcinea and his false story about the trip holds more true the reality of Dulcinea than Don Quixote's vision of her.
We will have to see if insanity is a slow progression or if Sancho will continue to be the sane one on Don Quixote's adventures.
Someone needs to remain sane! Because things keep getting stranger and stranger. And we are only 30 chapters in.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised that Don Quixote is still alive. I guess insanity has awesome healing powers or something!