History Literature / DonJuan

* AllWomenArePrudes: With the exception of Donna Inez, averted -- Julia, Haidée, Queen Catherine, and others want a fun sex life with someone they can love and respect; the narrator doesn't comdemn them but laments the difficulties in their way.

* DeathBySex: Haidée

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Byron clearly does not intend "Juan" to be pronounced properly as the Spanish name ("Hwan") but as two syllables ("JOO-won") which he rhymes with such phrases as "true one." Some literature scholars maintain Byron did this on purpose as a gag, since he mangles other foreign words in similar ways, to signify that the UnreliableNarrator of the poem is in fact an uncultured rube.

AffectionateParody of the classic epic + AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of the legendary ByronicHero [[Theatre/DonGiovanni Don Juan]] = Creator/LordByron's famous satirical NarrativePoem. From 1818 to 1824, Byron completed 16 cantos and a fragment of a 17th before AuthorExistenceFailure abruptly cut his poor hero's story short. Byron wrote in letters, "I have no plan -- I had no plan ... a playful satire, with as little poetry as could be helped, was what I meant." The result is a highly {{troperiffic}} tale told by a LemonyNarrator that frequently indulges in ConversationalTroping and LampshadeHanging in-between [[TakeThat criticizing society]], [[ContemplateOurNavels waxing philosophical about the wonders of love and the pain of heartbreak]], and occasionally telling the life story of Don Juan.

* BilingualRhyme: From canto 1, verse 42, lines 7-8 using English and Latin:
-->''But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one''
-->''Beginning with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."''

* YourCheatingHeart: Donna Julia (and possibly Lady Adeline if the story continued). The narrator blames this on {{Double Standard}}s and UglyGuyHotWife.

* {{Adorkable}}: Juan's attractiveness to women seems to fit this trope.
* AffectionateParody

* HelloNurse: Aurora Raby

'''#1: Donna Julia''', his mother's 23-year-old best friend. Poor Julia hasn't had much reason to enjoy her marriage to the 50-year-old Don Alfonso, who is now currently cheating on her with Donna Inez. When Julia realizes that she is falling in love with her handsome young friend and that, try as she might, she cannot deny her feelings, she resolves they will be JustFriends and that she will settle for loving his heart and soul and nothing more: "Love then, but love within its proper limits/ Was Julia's innocent determination" (I.81.1-2). Juan, meanwhile, cannot understand the strange new feelings he's experiencing no matter how many hours he spends wandering alone through the fields and forests dwelling on them. Finally, one summer day as the two are sitting in their bower together, Julia accidentally touches Juan's hand, he starts stroking her hair as she leans against him, OneThingLedToAnother...

* GorgeousGreek: Haidée is native from the Cyclades islands and one of the second woman Juan falls in love with, despite being unable to understand each other languages.

AffectionateParody of the classic epic '''+''' AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of the legendary ByronicHero [[Theatre/DonGiovanni Don Juan]] '''=''' Creator/LordByron's famous satirical NarrativePoem. From 1818 to 1824, Byron completed 16 cantos and a fragment of a 17th before AuthorExistenceFailure abruptly cut his poor hero's story short. Byron wrote in letters, "I have no plan -- I had no plan ... a playful satire, with as little poetry as could be helped, was what I meant." The result is a highly {{troperiffic}} tale told by a LemonyNarrator that frequently indulges in ConversationalTroping and LampshadeHanging in-between [[TakeThat criticizing society]], [[ContemplateOurNavels waxing philosophical about the wonders of love and the pain of heartbreak]], and occasionally telling the life story of Don Juan.

AffectionateParody of the classic epic '''+''' AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of the legendary ByronicHero [[Theatre/DonGiovanni Don Juan]] '''=''' Creator/LordByron's famous satirical NarrativePoem. From 1818 to 1824, Byron completed 16 cantos and a fragment of a 17th before AuthorExistenceFailure cut his poor hero's story abruptly short. Byron wrote in letters, "I have no plan -- I had no plan ... a playful satire, with as little poetry as could be helped, was what I meant." The result is a highly {{troperiffic}} tale told by a LemonyNarrator that frequently indulges in ConversationalTroping and LampshadeHanging in-between [[TakeThat criticizing society]], [[ContemplateOurNavels waxing philosophical about the wonders of love and the pain of heartbreak]], and occasionally telling the life story of Don Juan.

AffectionateParody of the classic epic '''+''' AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of the legendary ByronicHero Don Juan '''=''' Creator/LordByron's famous satirical NarrativePoem. From 1818 to 1824, Byron completed 16 cantos and a fragment of a 17th before AuthorExistenceFailure cut his poor hero's story abruptly short. Byron wrote in letters, "I have no plan -- I had no plan ... a playful satire, with as little poetry as could be helped, was what I meant." The result is a highly {{troperiffic}} tale told by a LemonyNarrator that frequently indulges in ConversationalTroping and LampshadeHanging in-between [[TakeThat criticizing society]], [[ContemplateOurNavels waxing philosophical about the wonders of love and the pain of heartbreak]], and occasionally telling the life story of Don Juan.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Byron died less than a month after the final complete canto appeared.

AffectionateParody of the classic epic '''+''' AlternateCharacterInterpretation of the legendary ByronicHero Don Juan '''=''' Creator/LordByron's famous satirical NarrativePoem. From 1818 to 1824, Byron completed 16 cantos and a fragment of a 17th before AuthorExistenceFailure cut his poor hero's story abruptly short. Byron wrote in letters, "I have no plan -- I had no plan ... a playful satire, with as little poetry as could be helped, was what I meant." The result is a highly {{troperiffic}} tale told by a LemonyNarrator that frequently indulges in ConversationalTroping and LampshadeHanging in-between [[TakeThat criticizing society]], [[ContemplateOurNavels waxing philosophical about the wonders of love and the pain of heartbreak]], and occasionally telling the life story of Don Juan.

->''Ever since that faithful day''
->''When I became a man,''
->''I've broken hearts of girls''
->''From Guam to Japan. Could it be my savoir-faire, My personality''
->''All I can say is that there is no one who can resist me.''
->''Some people call me Tim;''
->''Where did that come from?''
->''I am to be no other than Don Juan.''
-->-- '''Suburban Legends, "Don Juan"'''

->''Brave men were living before Agamemnon''
->''And since, exceeding valorous and sage,''
->''A good deal like him too, though quite the same none,''
->''But then they shone not on the poet's page''
->''And so have been forgotten. I condemn none,''
->''But can't find any in the present age''
->''Fit for my poem (that is, for my new one);''
->''So, as I said, I'll take my friend Don Juan.''
-->-- '''Canto I, stanza 5'''

'''#3: The sultana Gulbeyaz''', who has never had to deal with not getting what she wants until now, when Juan refuses to sleep with her. To keep her husband from discovering her plan, she has Juan dressed like a woman and sent to spend the night in the seraglio with the sultan's harem. Due to a shortage of free beds, the matron assigns Juan to share a bed for the night with...

Instead of a LovableRogue, a {{Casanova}}, TheCharmer, and a HandsomeLech of an AntiHero whose favorite hobby is seducing women, Byron's Don Juan is an honorable but naive young man who's SoBeautifulItsACurse and finds himself the target of women (some with less than honorable motives) in every country his travels take him to. Far from demonizing the fair sex, however, or portraying [[AllWomenAreLustful all women as lustful]], the poem actually frequently addresses the sexual {{Double Standard}}s of the day ''and'' portrays plenty of the hero's relationships as deep, loving, and genuine before inevitable tragedy strikes. Yes, LoveHurts, for both men and women, just in different ways thanks to society's rules.

AffectionateParody of the classic epic '''+''' AlternateCharacterInterpretation of the legendary ByronicHero Don Juan '''=''' LordByron's famous satirical NarrativePoem. From 1818 to 1824, Byron completed 16 cantos and a fragment of a 17th before AuthorExistenceFailure cut his poor hero's story abruptly short. Byron wrote in letters, "I have no plan -- I had no plan ... a playful satire, with as little poetry as could be helped, was what I meant." The result is a highly {{troperiffic}} tale told by a LemonyNarrator that frequently indulges in ConversationalTroping and LampshadeHanging in-between [[TakeThat criticizing society]], [[ContemplateOurNavels waxing philosophical about the wonders of love and the pain of heartbreak]], and occasionally telling the life story of Don Juan.