The idea of peace in the thought of Don Quijote

Abstract

We cannot, sensu stricto, point out Miguel de Cervantes as a pacifist, it would be an anachronism that is not justified in the Golden Age in which violence, war and peace had different meanings and objectives than the current ones. However, his humanistic spirit of concord, of compromise between opposites, of respect for the other, permeates all his work, and principally El Quijote, where, his immortal protagonist, from the paradox of the walking cavalry, invites men to the prudence and to the calm, leaving behind absurd fights by rivalries and revenges.