In the novel, Don Quixote, Quixote has a and an internal conflict because he wants to be a knight and that era is in the

Past.

Explanation:

Don Quixote is the main character in the novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, written by Miguel de Cervantes between 1605 and 1615. The book is one of the first novels written in a modern European language. It tells the comic travel adventures of an old nobleman who thinks he is a knight errant. This main character, Don Quixote, is the stereotype of the idealist, a foolish hero who more or less ridicules himself with his good intentions but impractical deeds.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”