Don Quixote, Part 2, Chapter 43 summary
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In Chapter 43, Don Quixote advises Sancho Panza on personal habits and governing, but Sancho’s repeated proverbs and difficulty remembering instructions provoke his anger. When Sancho offers to abandon office rather than endanger his soul, Don Quixote praises his goodness and judges him fit to govern.
What happens
- Don Quixote advises Sancho on cleanliness, clothing, charity, eating, drinking, and polite speech.
- Sancho learns the meaning of eructate but repeatedly breaks the instruction to avoid excessive proverbs.
- Sancho requests written instructions for his confessor because he cannot read or remember most of the advice.
- Don Quixote criticizes Sancho’s illiteracy and proverbs, while Sancho argues that wealth and authority can conceal his faults.
- Sancho offers to surrender the governorship rather than risk his soul, and Don Quixote approves his good intentions.
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