Title of Presentation or Performance
Español: Rugrats y Don Quijote de la Mancha: la perspectiva del niño
Submission Type
Event
Expected Graduation Date
2013
Location
Room E102, Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University
Start Date
4-20-2013 11:00 AM
End Date
4-20-2013 12:00 PM
Disciplines
Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
Abstract
When reviewing Cervante’s famous novel, Don Quijote de la Mancha, many readers try to attribute Don Quixote’s deviance and perspective on reality to madness. However, when examining Don Quixote’s reality in comparison to the imaginative world that is the reality of a child, many similarities can be seen. This presentation explores a post-modern children’s show, Rugrats, to show how these two realities not only exist in the novel, but in the post-modern world as well. The presentation also uses the developmental changes in the brain that occur between childhood and adulthood in order to explain the differences in perspective that exist between Don Quixote and his beloved squire, Sancho Panza. The hope is that by using scenes from Nickelodeon’s Rugrats, readers will come to appreciate and understand Don Quixote as a creative genius, free of limitations that bind others to the narrow-minded perspective that is exhibited by Sancho Panza and adults in general. (In Spanish)
Español: Rugrats y Don Quijote de la Mancha: la perspectiva del niño
Room E102, Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University
When reviewing Cervante’s famous novel, Don Quijote de la Mancha, many readers try to attribute Don Quixote’s deviance and perspective on reality to madness. However, when examining Don Quixote’s reality in comparison to the imaginative world that is the reality of a child, many similarities can be seen. This presentation explores a post-modern children’s show, Rugrats, to show how these two realities not only exist in the novel, but in the post-modern world as well. The presentation also uses the developmental changes in the brain that occur between childhood and adulthood in order to explain the differences in perspective that exist between Don Quixote and his beloved squire, Sancho Panza. The hope is that by using scenes from Nickelodeon’s Rugrats, readers will come to appreciate and understand Don Quixote as a creative genius, free of limitations that bind others to the narrow-minded perspective that is exhibited by Sancho Panza and adults in general. (In Spanish)
Comments
An extended treatment of this topic was selected for publication in CrissCross, a publication featuring interdisciplinary student research.