Tilting at windmills Cervantes wrote and published "Don Quixote" during the Eighty Years' War, or Dutch War of Independence (1568–1648), a revolt by the Habsburg Netherlands to end Spanish rule. In "Don Quixote", the eponymous protagonist consistently misinterprets the motives and actions of his adversaries and allies, and struggles to even understand his own at times — a conundrum regularly resulting in apparently unjustified violent actions and consequences. One way of interpreting Don Quixote's tilting at windmills could be allegorically, thereby promoting critical, skeptical, or satirical evaluation of either a hero's motives, rationales and actions, or the ultimate aims of a nation's foreign
Samad (fictional character) that character and named him Samad. Samad (fictional character) Samad (also Samad Agha; in Persian: صمد) is a fictional character created by Iranian director and actor, Parviz Sayyad. Samad was firstly characterized in a famous Iranian TV series, Sarkar Ostovar, as a country boy. In Sarkar Ostovar TV series there was a country naive boy without a name played by Parviz Sayyad who was frequently arrested for his ignorance. After doing a poll by Iran National Television, the series rated among the first popular shows and people were also asking why the country boy doesn't show up anymore. After that,