This chapter also bears another example of the reality of Don Quixote's imaginings. The knight believes that an evil enchanter works constantly for his undoing. His real nemesis, however, is the prosaic unimaginative world, and the individuals of the prosaic world work as tirelessly for his overthrow as if they were hirelings of his evil enemy. The sooner the knight-errant can adventure in the world, then the sooner will evil enchanters, like the ones in the minds of the curate and barber who wall up the library entranceway, be banished.
As soon as possible then, Don Quixote, followed by Sancho Panza, leaves the village. Although the credulous peasant follows his master in hopes of material gain, he is led on by an ideal of glory governor of an island almost as compelling as the ideal of Dulcinea del Toboso. His actual quest, then, is not one of greed, but one of faith. Poor Sancho is destined to struggle with this tension throughout the many adventures that follow.
