explain how Cervantess Don Quixote is a tragicomic figure

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Don Quixote de la Mancha Here lies the mighty Gentleman

Who rose to such heights of valor

That death itself did not triumph

Over his life with his death

He did not esteem the world

He was the frightening threat

To the world , in this respect

For it was his great good fortune

To live a madman , and die sane Such reads the epitaph of Alonso Quixano

the Good , commonly called Don Quixote de la Mancha (939 . Remembered , revered , or by some distained because of his lunacy and eccentric exploits , his last days theless were unmarked by folly . Though he had won fame under the banner of knight errantry , he left the world as its denouncer . Why then such an optimistic epitaph for one who died rejecting all that he had formerly held to be good , true , and perfect ? The Alonso the Good of the last pages of Cervantes seems a completely transformed , disillusioned and different person than the knight he had so strived to become . This was neither a spontaneous nor an impetuous transformation . Like all the progressions of Quixote 's life , there were motivating factors behind each stage : the departure of a static existence in favor of knight errantry , the abandonment of chivalry to sanity , and death following the acquisition of sanity . On the surface , these stages may seem like completely differentiated states . Yet , [He] may well contradict [himself]...