Next, Quejana thinks for a week about a name for himself and decides to call himself Don Quixote. This is a name befitting an illustrious knight, a name that does justice to the number one horse in the world. He thinks for four days about a suitable name for the horse and finally names him Rocinante. Quejana takes his old, flawed horse and it seems to him that the horse is well suited to serve a knight. He even makes a helmet with a visor to complete his armor. He removes rust and mold, cleans and patches them up. He dusts off the weapons of his ancestors.
Quejana is approaching fifty when he decides to become a knight errant. He reads for days on end and is so absorbed in his books that he loses his mind. He even sells pieces of his land in order to buy new romances. And that he devours the romances of chivalry popular at the time. Except that he does nothing for most of the year. Not much else is known about the nobleman. Quejana, a nobleman of strong constitution, skinny and scrawny in appearance, lives with a housekeeper, a niece and a lad. La Mancha, Central Spain, at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The story illustrates the links to the heart, the extrinsic or social self, and Role Awareness. Don Quixote is a great example of what happens when the unruly horse and the charioteer lose out to the zealous horse. It is about courage to take the steps you have to take. This is represented by Socrates as the zealous horse in the metaphor of the charioteer and the pair of horses. The insight that aspires for the best is the last of the three forces present in a person. Zeal and honor are the result when a person aspires for the best. Hannah Arendt (from: “The Human Condition”) 3.1 The courageous Don Quixote … courage, which we now feel to be an indispensable quality of the hero, is in fact already present in a willingness to act and speak at all, to insert one’s self into the world and begin a story of one’s own.’
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