[Music] in part one chapter four of Don Quixote Don Quixote heads home for clean shirts money and a squire he sees someone it's a boy named Andres tied to a tree being whipped by his employer Don Quixote insists that the farmer set Andres free and pay him what he's owed upon Don Quixote his departure Andres is tied to the tree again and whipped so hard that the farmer left him for dead further down the road the Don gets into a fight with a group of merchants about his beloved Dulcinea del Toboso his beauty he falls
off Rocinante and can't get up due to the hefty weight of his armor Don Quixote stands up for what he thinks is right but his code of conduct isn't in sync with the accepted ethics of the early seventeenth century in his mind there's a clear distinction between right and wrong he doesn't stop to consider that the boy being whipped actually deserves any punishment nor does he recognize the futility of fighting about a woman's beauty his compulsive need to defend the honor of all those who have been wronged causes more trouble for everyone a major recurring
theme in the book Cervantes uses Don Quixote's ignorance about current social and cultural norms to ridicule the morals portrayed in traditional chivalric romances a man who only experiences life through the pages of a book has no concept of acceptable behavior in normal society and such idealism will in fact injure both himself and others you you
