Abstract:

Don Quixote, who is known for fighting windmills, which he sees as giants that he sees as doing harm to people, and a hero whose cartoons are definitely watched by every child, even if his book is not read, is seen as the first example of the transition from story to novel in world literature. The hero, who takes great pleasure from reading the knight books, begins to identify himself with the events there and declares his knighthood. The aim of this study is to examine the elements of violence in the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The data sources of the study, in which the qualitative research approach is adopted, are five Don Quixote books belonging to different publishers. The data obtained from the books are presented with descriptive analysis. The resulting findings are shown in the tables as frequencies and supported by example sentences from the book. As a result of the study, the elements of violence in the novel Don Quixote were gathered under four themes as emotional, physical, economic and sexual violence. The five themes of emotional violence are ridicule, insult, revenge, belittlement and threat; two themes of sexual violence are intercourse and nudity; two themes of economic violence are theft and looting; The theme of physical violence is grouped under five categories as beating, injuring, hitting, killing and attacking. It has been determined that violence is handled intensely in the work and messages related to the theme of emotional violence are mostly included. As a result of the research, it has been suggested that the book Don Quixote, whose target audience is children, should be purified from the elements of violence and published.

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