Don QuixoteDon Quixote takes place during the early seventeenth century, the golden age of Spanish literature, when many of Spains greatest literary works were created, a time when Spain experienced an obsession with conquering other lands, thereby calling for novels depicting masculine controlling characters. Miguel Cervantes intended for Don Quixote to ridicule such common novels of the time, stories which primarily involved bravery and power.The book Don Quixote is about the man Don Quix