Monsignor_Quixote

Monsignor Quixote Can a Don Quixote exist in the 20th century' Graham Greene decided to experiment with Monsignor Quixote, a novel about the descendent of Don Quixote. Monsignor Quixote is a Spanish cleric and is friends with a man named Sancho similar to his ancestor. Sancho happens to be a communist ex-Mayor instead of a simple peasant which is a subtle parallel-Cervantes' Sancho by the end of the novel is an ex-governor. After a charitable act towards a visiting bishop, Quixote is given the title Monsignor, even though he would prefer to be just a padre. When Father Quixote is forced from his parish by his bishop, he and Sancho leave and tour Spain. This book brings in discussion of Franco, Stalin, Marxism, religion, belief and the Bible transforming the Quixote/Sancho relationship into a discussion of religious belief versus skepticism. Father Quixote stresses the importance of faith; Sancho views faith merely as illusion. Religion, here, ends up equated with idealism-like idealism, Sancho thinks it to be fantasy, but learns the benefits of belief as well. Father Quixote is presented at the beginning of Greene’s novel as a model priest. He is humble, honorable and loving, in contrast to his quixote, father, sancho, faith, journey, belief, greene, believe, quixote’s, monsignor, through, leopoldo, illusion, even, world, ways, small, religion, point, novel, man, love, just, greene’s, found, ends, bishop, about, yet, town, throughout, though, system, subtle, spain