How we cite our quotes: (Part.Book.Chapter.Paragraph) We use the P. A. Motteux translation from 1712 for our quotes. Some familiar character names appear differently in this edition (Sancho Panza is Sancho Panca here, Rocinante is Rozinante, and Doña Rodriguez is Donna Rodriguez). We preserve Motteux's spellings in our quotes but use the more familiar versions of these names in our analysis.
Quote #4
[And] therefore taking it in mighty dudgeon, he up with his fist, and hit the enamoured knight such a swinging blow on the jaws, that his face was all over blood in a moment." (1.3.1.5)
This is one of the first times Don Quixote gets his face bloodied in this book, but it definitely isn't the last. In Part 1 especially, Don Quixote spends the majority of his career as a knight getting absolutely annihilated by the people he tries to fight.
Quote #5
"Fear nothing, Sancho," said he, "there is no danger at all: for what thou feelest in the dark are certainly the feet and legs of some banditti and robbers, that have been hanged upon those trees." (2.1.60.2)
We arrive at one of the most violent parts of the book when Sancho backs up into a tree and suddenly realizes that there are dozens of dead people hanging above him by the neck. Don Quixote doesn't think it's a big deal, which just goes to show you how death was something that people must have confronted on a daily basis in 16th- and 17th-century Spain. This kind of violence is also pretty common in stories of knight-errantry, so maybe Don Quixote ignores it for that reason, too.
Quote #6
"I fired at him, not only with this piece, but with both my pistols, and, as I believe, shot him through the body, thus with his heart's blood washing away the stains of my honour." (2.1.60.6)
The young lady Claudia feels that her lover Vicente has betrayed her by marrying another woman. So what does she do? She grabs two pistols and shoots the guy through the heart. We'll just go ahead and say that she overreacted on that one. Is this kind of violence different from the other kinds of violence we see in the novel?