After looking at Eko’s woodcuts in class, I was curious as to how some of his reoccurring thematic images were used in his other depictions of scenes from the book. \u00a0As we noticed from the woodcut showing\u00a0Don Quixote ‘losing his wits’ being too entrenched in his stories, his head and torso were depicted as\u00a0one large hand. I was interested to see that this portrayal of him reappeared in contexts outside\u00a0of the context of him reading inside his house. In the second and fourth images below, he is on a horse throwing a spear and locked in jail, but the iconography of the hand suggests that these are figments of his imagination or at least a further sign of his madness. The imagery of books is omnipresent – either placed somewhere in isolation within the scene or\u00a0imbedded into other objects such as the face of the lion in the first woodcut\u00a0or the body of the horse in the second.<\/p>\n
I included the windmill woodcut that we looked at in class specifically because I hadn’t noticed at the time that it included books as well. The combination of the book and hand imagery (as well as the receding checkered floor which is not included in these woodcuts) suggest that\u00a0Eko may have chosen to depict this story, in its entirety, as Don Quixote’s\u00a0descent into madness – or at least, a consistent narrative of his mental state absorbed in the\u00a0stories he reads.<\/p>\n
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