... form of the novel reflects its function, creating a world in which Cervantes entertains and tutors us, manipulating our notion to force us to examine them more closely. Don Quixote tries to be a living example of a knight-errant in an attempt to force his social group to face their own failure to maintain the old system of morality, the chivalric rule. This conflict ... Toledo, sustain that literature should tell the truth and nothing but it. Several even propose that their government should practice restriction to prevent the wicked misjudgments of certain books from corrupting innocen...

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