True and False Pastoral in <i>Don Quijote</i>

these difficulties as indicative of Cervantes' hostility to pastoral love. Herman Iventosch suggests that the episode is concerned with the "enslavement" of men through the conventions of courtly love; Harry Sieber argues that it illustrates the "harsh and arbitrary" nature of a pastoral love antithetical to "bourgeois life in society"; Michael D. McGaha claims that it dramatizes the dangers of a "disordered love" which leads Grisostomo "to deify a woman and offer her the adoration due only to God"; Javier Herrero