Realism vs Idealism

Real & Human-like

Example 2: Dulcinea

Reality - Aldonza

Desire - Dulcinea

Example 1: The Inn

Nobleman?

Castle?

Damsels?

The idealist: Don Quixote

a defender of justice and of the oppressed

a hero with an idealized lady

Reality

Desires

Illustration

Idealism

• An unrealistic belief to pursue for perfection
• Idealized Thing

In literature...

• Narrator
• background and details

Example 1

In the inn......

Idealism

Realism

To observe reality in an objective way

various physical defects and imperfections

Conscious & Mind

Idealism

REALITY

Realism

Example 1

Idealism

Maritornes

Example 2

Weather

• describe unreservedly
• “her hairs, not unlike with those of a horse’s mane…”
• “through her breath, doubtless, smelled of last’s night’s salt fish…”

One world won't exist outside our mind!

Example 2

one day in July

A figure of amusement?

HOT!!

settings and behaviors become reasonable and logical!

Don Quixote

Realism vs Idealism

Late Middle Ages...

Art and Literature

portrayed in a fantasized and rhetoric way

Then, people started...

• Romantic idealized
• Dramatic

A Trend!

Why two ideologies together?

• from Leo Battista - De Pictura
• look thing in a sense of perspectives
• fullness and roundness

Late Middle Ages and early Renaissance...

We have limited perspectives!

Chivalric Romance

dirty and ugly = reality ?

NO!

own background and experience

• popular literture
• best-sellers

Reality Imagination

We don't have the

whole picture of reality!

wining favor of lady

Reality

heroic knight

For Fun!

independent to personal mind and concious

giants and monster

Absolute

Reality?

adventures

DQ is mad?

Refusal to social conventions

Refusal to cruel and harsh reality

Look things

in the perspective of DQ...

Make the “reality” into what we desire

Cervantes = Sceptic against Romanticism

Fantasy is vague because we do not believe it to be true, but when we do, it can become into a more desired reality.

Totally different / Better(?)

World

The End

the lack of value and thereof of the chivalric romances

Chivalric Romance was a threat

to people at that time