Abstract
This article argues that the role of Maritornes is more complex than the stereotypical function of producer of humor assigned to ugly and deformed characters. The analysis underscores the recurrent figurative use of the words arm-hand as well as the significant allusion to the myth of Medusa. It demonstrates how Maritornes changes from being the object of the aggressiveness of the protagonist and the narrator in Don Quijote 1.16 to become the subject of redress. Effectively, as a new Medusa bearer of the feminine horror, she dares to look, immobilize, and symbolically castrate the protagonist Don Quijote in 1.43.
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