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   Sancho Panza, Don Quixote's earthy, pragmatic squire, serves as a foil to his master, grounding the novel's idealism in comic realism.

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   Dulcinea del Toboso, the idealized love interest in Don Quixote, never actually appears in the novel and exists only through the protagonist's imagination.

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   Literary scholars frequently analyze Don Quixote as a metafictional work, as characters in Part II read and discuss the events of Part I.

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   The protagonist's name, Don Quixote, gave rise to the English adjective 'quixotic,' meaning idealistic or impractical pursuit of unreachable goals.

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   Cervantes is widely credited with writing the first modern novel through Don Quixote, which explores themes of reality versus illusion and the nature of fiction itself.

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