Question

In a novel or play, a confidant (male) or a confidante (female) is a character, often a friend or relative of the hero or heroine, whose role is to be present when the hero or heroine needs a sympathetic listener to confide in. Frequently the result is, as Henry James remarked, that the confidant or confidante can be as much "the reader’s friend as the protagonist’s." However, the author sometimes uses this character for other purposes as well. Choose a confidant or confidante from a novel or play of recognized literary merit and write an essay in which you discuss the various ways this character functions in the work. You may write your essay on one of the following novels or plays or on another of comparable quality. Do not write on a poem or short story

Answer 1

Answer:

The novel: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Character: Sancho Panza

Explanation:

Don Quixote is a novel based on a character (Don Quixote) that loves medieval novels and one day in his craziness he decides to start acting if he were in one of his novels.

Sancho Panza, whom is his confidant during the novel is with him in all the adventures, helping him to not die by trying to put reality on his sight, however, Don Quixote always gets involved in conflicts and fights.

The main quality of Sancho is the hability he has on controlling, as he can, Don Quixote and even though he can´t see reality as he does it, he tries to go along with him and his madness.