While chained and wearing animal skins, this character delivers a soliloquy lamenting that the greatest sin of humans is “having been born.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character. In a play whose themes are often compared to Cartesian skepticism, this character is locked in a tower after a horoscope at his birth indicates that he will grow up to be a tyrant.
ANSWER: Segismundo [or Prince Sigismund] (from Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s Life is a Dream)
[10h] In the novel Mist, Augusto decides on the maxim “I eat, therefore I am” after a depressing meeting with this character. Augusto goes to meet this character after reading his article on suicide.
ANSWER: Miguel de Unamuno [prompt on the author]
[10e] Steven Nadler suggests that Descartes may have read Don Quixote, whose protagonist’s delusions include bestowing this name on his love interest, the simple peasant girl Aldonza Lorenzo.
ANSWER: Dulcinea del Toboso
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