A popular folk legend, the story of Don Juan had already been told many times prior to Lord Byron's epic poem.The Ghost of the Black Friar: A mysterious phantom that Don Juan sees one night.The Duchess of Fitz-Fulke: A voluptuous upper-class lady who flirts with Don Juan.Lady Adeline: A married woman of the English aristocracy who resists her lust for Don Juan.Empress Catherine II: The Christian ruler of Russia, who is very fond of Don Juan shares her bed with him and showers him with expensive gifts.After a misunderstanding involving Juan and another woman she orders that Juan and John be executed. She lusts after Juan, despite being the wife of a powerful Sultan. Gulbayez (Sultana): Secretly buys Juan and John from the slave market.
They are bought together and later escape together. John: A fellow slave to Juan in the markets of Constantinople.When her father and his pirate run Juan away, she dies from heartbreak. Haidee: A native from the Aegean island.She is his first sexual experience, and is unhappily married to 50-year old Don Alfonso. Donna Julia: The woman to first fall in love with the 16-year old.Donna Inez: Don Juan mother and sole guardian, a woman with a “great opinion of her own good qualities.” (Stanza 20) She educated him greatly in the field of the arts and sciences, but refused to teach Juan anything about about sex or women in his upbringing.Don Juan: A Byronic hero, a sexually ignorant individual whose submissive nature repeatedly gets him into compromising situations with women of all ages.In the words of the Oxford Anthology of English Literature, "No author before or since has enjoyed such notoriety, or had an influence so out of proportion with his actual imaginative achievement.".In the case of Don Juan, this is a misconception, though Byron does have sexual experience in common with the hero.The majority of his works have been at some point interpreted as being autobiographical.Led a promiscuous life, which ultimately led to his social isolation.One of the chief poets of the romantic movement.Lord ByronDon Juan Jeffrey Maloney, Ryan Nylander, Jinny Chae Period 1
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