Just as in Swift, we find in Cervantes social criticism, irony and sarcasm as well as the satirical method and exaggeration and allusion as methods. Humor was also used centuries earlier in Don Quixote as well. Cervantes is as gifted and accomplished of a satirist as Swift. For instance, Cervantes humorously has Don Quixote jousting windmills who are giants that he is preparing to deprive of life. This is an example of social criticism of those who go off on crazy crusades for no good reason. Cervantes' Don Quixote is has been considered the first modern novel and one of the most important modernist devices available in the novel is the exploration of the characters' inner worlds using satire and humor, especially of Don Quixote. The fact that he is so in the imaginary world of chivalry is that he ironically thinks that Dulcinea actually cares about him. Through these...
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