Cervantes expresses other ideas in Don Quixote, and though these are of secondary importance, they at least deserve mention.
Romantic love is often depicted in the novel. Among all the various courtships that take place, their common quality is a love between the two people despite parental disapproval or unequal birth. Cervantes obviously disliked "arranged marriages" and idealizes a wedding of a mutually affected couple with the blessings of their families.
Sympathy for the Moorish population of Spain is another of the author's inclinations. Cervantes, who lived as a prisoner in Algiers, understands the Moorish people who lived as a sometimes-hostile and unassimilated subculture of Spain. Among deservedly banished Moors, many families contributive to Spanish cultural life and orthodox in their Catholicism were exiled as well.
Outstanding too is Cervantes' knowledge of the underworld culture of Spain. In a short novel, Rinconete and Cortadillo, he shows even more detailed knowledge of the thieves' government that ruled Barcelona. In Don Quixote, however, the author limits himself to sketches of Gines de Passamonte and to the outlaw community of Roque Guinart. The chain gang prisoners speak in the slang dialect used by rogues and gypsies.
