A stampede of cattle runs over Don Quixote and Sancho, scattering their horses—a pivotal moment because Don Quixote correctly identifies them as cattle rather than dragons, signaling his loss of imaginative faculty and approaching death.
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Unidentified Speaker — Great Authors - Literature of the Renaissance - Cervantes, … [D-GPmkVu_cY]Evidence Quote
“don quixote understands that the cattle are cattle...if these cattle are understood by don quixote as being cattle it means that there's something wrong...he's coming to the end of the story and the end of his life”
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