... . He misses his family but would rather be apart from them than miss this opportunity for adventure and riches. Labeled by some as the most humorous character in all of fiction, Sancho Panza is a comic foil to Don Quixote's grave convictions. Sancho loves to talk, and to eat and drink so much that he is always scheming or sneaking off to do ... is corteous. Don Quixote's common sense and ethical standards resemble those of Polonius advising Laertes tin the famous scene in Hamlet. He persuades a couple of wily lodgers to pay their innkeeper; he is honest and chaste; and in general, is lov...

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• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School