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ceribe Byron as a
satirist with reference to Don
on's Don Juan embodies
Byron's
Or,
icism of life Discuss. [NU. 94).Byron's most
most serios
serious
omment on Byron's Or,
Comment
uan, realistic approach of digressions ~
in Don Canto I. [NU 2005]
Or,
Awhat abuses of society are attacked by
TstaT? What
methods does he employ to Byron in Don
Or,
attack them?o.4t
Discuss Byron's Don Juanjs a
social satire. [NU. 2011]
Ans. Byron was one of the most powerful
Laring the 19th century. He had
satirists of England
a great liking for Alexander Pope,
he prince of satirists in the 18Bth century
ccessor. He closely and for Gifford, his worthy67
succ
fhuan
imitated their form and style in his satires)Don
is his highest achievement in
digressions of the high society. which he unbosoms the
satirise the hypocrisy and
He uses wit, humour and irony to
corruption of the society.
Don Juan is an epiç satire which records
the panoramic survey of
human society, with fõibles and weaknesses
and political personalities. Byron
of social institutions,
himself speaks of the work as an
eDicsatire:
My poem is epic and is meant to be
Divided in twelve books, each book containing
With love and war, a heavy glea at sea.
In the poem Byron satirised the code of love prevailing
moment. There,is no existence of true love, no conjugal at thee
Women are hypôcrite and unfaithful to their husbands.
happiness.
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The hypcrisý of woman is satirised in the character of both Inez
and Julia. Donna Inez is not happy with the päšsivity of her
husband,
Don Jose. Her relationship with her husband is not based on
love.
There was a rumour that Don Jose had a mistress, but some say, two.
It was the source of quarrel between Inez and Jose. She even called
on druggists and physicians to prove that Jose had gone mad.
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wanted to make her
her
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son, J
After the death of keep him aloof from ity or
or
an all round man. She wanted to
education the works of great
eat aut
auth
lis,
corruption. She chose for his But it is ironical that his later ater lif
is
touch of sexual affair. know that,though
though she
she
aving n0 sexual love. And for Inez we is a
dominatëd by
Christian, she had love-affair ith Alfonso hea
before
piois and devöted continued the affair even arter ner marriage,
her marriage and with Julia in e
continue her
order to continue
pretends to maintain friendship mix with Ju1a to open Alfonso's Alfons,
aftair with Alfonso. She lets Juan way of an illicit love affair.
eyes in order to keep him in the a woman
woman of the society. She is
Julia is another hypocrite a man of fifty. He cannot saticsy
Alfonso,
of twenty-three mnarried to pluck sexual pleasure from Jua
trom Juan,
her cafnal desire. So she decides to
saké of honour and religion, she, then
a youth of sixteen. But for the Afterwards, she wants to
keep, herself away from him.
wants to Platonic love with Juan. She fails to resist her temptation
maintain her suspicious
and falls victim to lust. When she is in bed withuan,
investigate, but fails to detëct Juan. At this she
husband comes to her. To prove
severely rebúkes her husband for his suspicion towards a
innocence, she pretends weeping and goes into fainting fit
her
Ultimately Juan is discovered. Here Julia is a perfect hypocrite.
Thus Byron in the poem satirises marriage without love. The
osociety may syupport marriage without love but weknow that it påves
the way for ilicit love affairs, as we find in the côyugal life of Jose
and Inez as well as Alfonso and Julia. Byron here satirises arranged
marriage and free sex of the society, which even gives birth to an
illegitimate child. He conveys this satire through the information of
Julia's grandmother who begot Julia's father without marriage.
Thus Byron is a successful satirist i English language. In the
poem Don Juan, Canto I, he,attacks abüsés of virtue and morality,
hypocrisy. of women, infidellty of both husbands and wives. But
everywhere hé has used wit, humour and irony as his weapons to
attack them.
