Abstract
A comparison of Don Quixote and Prince Myshkin concludes that both characters undercut the chivalric ideal through their confusion of dreams with reality and their inability to provide assistance to others even when they try. Other shared themes include madness, death and rebirth, and the failure to distinguish virtue from vice. Above all, Don Quixote and Prince Myshkin, because they do not understand love and their attempts to perform good works lead to tragedy, have lost their two most fundamental links to reality, whether awake or dreaming.
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