Don Quixote
Aging hidalgo who loses sanity from reading chivalric romances and sets out as knight-errant. Don Quixote represents idealism vs reality, the power and danger of imagination, and noble folly. His tilting at windmills symbolizes fighting imaginary enemies or impossible battles with misplaced idealism.
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