man and nature reaches its fulfillment.

          To this catalog of marginal types and situations, we 
     add the figure of woman, who almost throughout the 
     entire course of modern literature from Cervantes to Ibsen 
     has been treated as an individual closer to her own nature 
     and truth than are men, since man is indissolubly bound 
     up with the competitive processes of work, in contrast to 
     the enforced removal of woman from professional 
     activities. Not accidentally does Cervantes use Dulcinea 
     as a symbol of human creativity.