ABSTRACT
The couples are reunited and their happiness is complete. “Dorothea was unable to persuade herself that her present happiness was not all a dream” (De Cervantes, 2013, p. 277). The same is true of Cardenio, Luscinda, and even Don Fernando, who realises that he has barely escaped the fate of a criminal. Don Quixote, on the other hand, has to stop dreaming. The medico-social scheme concocted by the barber and the curate is still in effect: their plan to lock up the knight so that the others can live real lives, lives which, in their opinion, can do without madness and its visions.
