Don Juan Canto X Essay

Braving a new world, punishing barbaric people, spreading the influence of your king and gaining riches. These are just a few things that Juan De Onate writes in his letter published in For the Record, “Letter from New Mexico”. Juan is writing to a rich and powerful Lord in hopes that he will grant him help and protection that he needs badly. Everything in Juan letter is influenced by his knowledge that if he is going to succeed that he needs more money and help, and he uses his experiences and how strong his morality is to convince this Lord to give him more money.

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Lord Byron, a romantic author from the 18th century was a man who was considered as a “player”, a man who was always with multiple women. In his lifetime Byron wrote many stories, three of those stories were, She Walks In Beauty, Apostrophe To The Ocean, and Don Juan. In those three stories Lord Byron indicates very important messages for each.

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Don Juan lacks the insight as to the significance of his behavior for himself and other

Byron’s mistreatment of women outweighs that image of Juan running naked and makes the poem unfunny. A main image that supports the stereotype in this part of the poem is the end result of the affair between Julia and Juan. Juan gets to go and travel as punishment from his mother for the affair, while Julia loses everything; her husband, and her life because she ends up in a convent. These events of Julia losing everything and Juan getting to travel is unfunny in this poem because it shows the inequality of affair and how women are blamed and men get off without any punishment. What makes the punishment worse is that Byron writes Julia in a manipulative way that makes her come off as still desperate for Juan. A few lines that shows this are, “And I must even survive this last adieu, / And bear with life, to love and prey for you” (1575-1576)! Byron continues to write Julia as this mastermind manipulator with these lines that can be seen as her try to get him

“Don Juan” has many immoral aspects, especially if we consider the time that it was written. Of course, for today’s standards, many might not consider it immoral. Though, we also have to take into consideration that morals are not always universal. However, I believe the story truly points to being immoral throughout and it starts with canto one. The story introduces the young and sheltered Don Juan, only to end the canto when he is sixteen and commits adultery with a twenty-three-year-old married woman. When we continue with canto two, Don Juan is shipped wrecked and rescued by the young daughter of a pirate. Again, ending the story when the girl and Don Juan fornicate after her father has left the island. Within just these two cantos, they

After his father leaves, who is now moved and thankful by his son’s revelations, however Don Juan reveals to Sganarelle that he was only acting. He now sees that if he by being what he considers a hypocrite can be used as a mask which would still allow him to continue his life of sin. He then tests his theory even more when he meets Don Carlos who has come seeking revenge. He basically tells him that “Heaven directly opposes it; it has inspired in my soul the design of changing my life” ( V.III.pg 58),meaning that Heavens forbids him to do any acts of violence. Don Carlos does not believe Don Juan’s act, but he does let it go and sys that he will be back soon for his revenge.