Two Styles, Two Ideas

DON QUIXOTE is a novel which is worthy of exploration at any time. The ambiguity in the text keeps challenging generations of researchers. Whereas any imperfection in research on the inserted stories in DON QUIXOTE, this essay examines them in connection with other works of Cervantes and a notable contradiction between the inserted stories and the main piece, DON QUIXOTE. It is shown that it is a successor of romance style by various characteristics of romance style and the romance idea expressed by the author in the inserted stories;while, during construction of modern novel, the main piece deconstructs the romantic style represented by romance of knight. Namely, the main piece deconstructs the romance and the inserted stories are the deconstructed objectives, the latter, to some extent, gives a counteraction of the intention to the main piece. There is a sharp contradiction between them, but they are in such a same works that the conflict in Cervantes's soul is exposed.This essay consists of three parts as follows:The first part is analysis of the inserted stories in DON QUIXOTE. After introduction to the general overview of the romance and the influence of it on Cervantes, this part stresses the romantic characteristics of the inserted stories, which are represented as romantic love, people, background, plot, perspective and writing style;and analyzes the romantic idea conveyed through this romantic style by the author, that is, idealism and feudal tradition idea.The second part analyzes the main piece of DON QUIXOTE . Based onthe achievements of others, this essay summarizes two ways of which the main piece of DON QUIXOTE constructs modern novels: structural principle of parody and introduction and organization of heteroglossia, and makes a detailed analysis. The modern idea of the author is also represented in the novel style.The third part is a conclusion. It is a unity of opposites between the inserted stories and the main piece of DON QUIXOTE, and a relationship of deconstruction and anti-deconstruction;the contradiction of the work results from the internal contradiction of the author, that is, as an author who was in a period when the new and the old interlaced, Cervantes had a brand of two ages inevitably.