Hassan Aga

Family: Turks · Role: master and king of Algiers · First appears: Part 1, Ch. 40.1

Life events

• El Uchali’s slaves were divided, and the captive fell to Hassan Aga’s lot.(Part 1, Ch. 40.1 · 📍 Constantinople)
  • With: El Uchali the Grand Signor the captive
  • “I fell to the lot of a Venetian renegade who, when a cabin boy on board a ship, had been taken by Uchali”
• Hassan Aga became king of Algiers and grew very rich.(Part 1, Ch. 40.1 · 📍 Algiers)
  • “He came to be the most cruel renegade I ever saw: his name was Hassan Aga, and he grew very rich and became king of Algiers.”
• The captive went with Hassan Aga from Constantinople to Algiers.(Part 1, Ch. 40.1 · 📍 Algiers)
  • With: the captive
  • “With him I went there from Constantinople, rather glad to be so near Spain”
• Hassan Aga spared de Saavedra personal violence despite the soldier’s repeated attempts to regain liberty.(Part 1, Ch. 40.1 · 📍 Algiers)
  • With: de Saavedra
  • “The only one that fared at all well with him was a Spanish soldier, something de Saavedra by name, to whom he never gave a blow himself”

Part 1, Ch. 40.1

• employer: El Uchali (Hassan Aga was taken by Uchali as a cabin boy and became his favored dependent.) “I fell to the lot of a Venetian renegade who, when a cabin boy on board a ship, had been taken by Uchali and was so much beloved by him that he became one of his most favoured youths.”
• servant: the captive (Hassan Aga is the captive’s master in this passage and exercises authority over the Christian captives.) “Every day he hanged a man, impaled one, cut off the ears of another; and all with so little provocation, or so entirely without any, that the Turks acknowledged he did it merely for the sake of doing it, and because he was by nature murderously disposed towards the whole human race.”
• servant: de Saavedra (Hassan Aga is the master who controls and unusually spares the captive soldier de Saavedra.) “The only one that fared at all well with him was a Spanish soldier, something de Saavedra by name, to whom he never gave a blow himself, or ordered a blow to be given, or addressed a hard word, although he had done things that will dwell in the memory of the people there for many a year, and all to recover his liberty;”

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Extracted from the original text of Don Quixote (Ormsby's translation). Made with Rho MD.