True and False Pastoral in Don Quijote

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