Ego contra mundum: About Don Juan and Don Quixote

Abstract

AbstractThis article analyses two figures of the Spanish Golden Age Literature, Don Juan and Don Quixote, which involve a series of questions or problems typical of philosophy. They don´t expose a theoretical problem rather they represent it, they stage it; they are characters closed in themselves, in their madness, in their dream or solitude. This brief paper attempts to establish the relationship and the differences between Don Juan and the Quixote, as well as to expose the question of the self, and the theme of melancholy represented in these characters.Keywords: Melancholy, baroque, Spanish Literature, Don Juan, Don Quixote.