When Don Quixote dies, his spirit lives on in Sancho Panza, who becomes his spiritual heir—as Sancho increasingly adopts idealistic qualities, Don Quixote's body may die but his spirit of heroism and imagination is transferred to the squire.
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“sancho ponza is don quixote's heir in more than one sense...he's also the spiritual heir of don quixote...don quixote is dying but sancho ponza is becoming don quixote or rather he is absorbing the spirit of don quixote”
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