The Modern World Needs A Don Quixote The problems of the world could be solved by Don Quixote. Although, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote in 1605, modern man in 1998 could learn, should learn from the main character. Don Quixote de la Mancha. "In essence, Don Quixote shows us that the reality of existence consists in receiving all the impact of experience, which, transformed the medium of a special awareness, is synthesized as part of the character" (Riley 5). Man too lives by experience but, perhaps he doesn't learn from it as did Quixote. Don Quixote become obsessed with the idea of reintroducing the practice of knight-errantry into the world.