{"id":2326,"date":"2020-07-10T17:11:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T16:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=2326"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:07:08","slug":"don-juan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/iberian-mythology\/don-juan\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Juan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2326\" class=\"elementor elementor-2326\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0890910 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0890910\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-798380d\" data-id=\"798380d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0929dce elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"0929dce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/iberian-mythology\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Iberian mythology<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-08cd70e\" data-id=\"08cd70e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f91f860 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"f91f860\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_mythology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Wiki<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1b002995 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1b002995\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2e41fe5f\" data-id=\"2e41fe5f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-510e0f8d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"510e0f8d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p>The mythical seducer Don Juan appeared in 1630 under the pen of Tirso de Molina. It will be taken up and recreated by many writers including Moli\u00e8re, Lorenzo Da Ponte (author of the libretto <em>Don Giovanni<\/em> for Mozart), Byron, Hoffmann, Musset, M\u00e9rim\u00e9e and Dumas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5284 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Don Juan\" width=\"25\" height=\"26\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/iberian-mythology\/don-juan\/#Don-Juan\" >Don Juan<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Don-Juan\"><\/span>Don Juan<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cDon Juan lives in the enjoyment of the present moment and imposes himself as the individual opposing the God who created him. It embodies the power of erotic desire by opposing Christian morality which requires marriage to precede and frame the satisfaction of this desire. Don Juan represents the omnipotence of the individual in the face not only of any oppression but even more so in the face of any form of authority, whether divine or social.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>The first version of <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">myth<\/a>: \u201ca character filled with sovereign sensuality\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first version of the myth that fully develops the characteristics of the character is the work of Tirso de Molina, <em>El burlador de Sevilla y Convidado de Piedra<\/em>, published in 1630. Don Juan is defined by this work as a character defying the authorities and the society of his time by refusing to submit to the moral codes that prevailed then and by postponing his repentance.<\/p>\n<p>Character filled with a sovereign sensuality, not atheist but little interested in the Catholic religion, he pursues and deceives many women before repenting in front of the flames of hell. It symbolizes an erotic outburst that opposes the gallant discourse of the chilled lover.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He lives in the enjoyment of the present moment and imposes himself as the individual opposing the God who created him. It embodies the power of erotic desire by opposing Christian morality which requires marriage to precede and frame the satisfaction of this desire. Don Juan represents the omnipotence of the individual in the face not only of any oppression but even more so in the face of any form of authority, whether divine or social.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It is fundamentally opposed to the charity advocated by the Catholic Church and to the duties imposed by social life. It places the individual above the general, above society. He removed from his life the duties towards his fellow men, estimating that the only duty of man is to ensure his self a blossoming without limits.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>&quot;Don Juan becomes, through Moli\u00e8re&#039;s play, an atheist libertine, a great hypocrite lord&quot;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To this first version of Don Juan <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/iberian-mythology\/\">Spanish<\/a> followed by Italian variants which do not bring important changes as far as the figure of Don Juan is concerned. The seventeenth-century French works of Villiers and Dorimon prepare the most important version of the Don Juan myth since its creation, that of Moli\u00e8re, which appeared in 1665.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes, through Moli\u00e8re&#039;s play, an atheist libertine, a great hypocrite lord. He is a cynical and cold character who no longer seeks the simple enjoyment of life but wishes to manipulate the men around him, dishonor the women who pass within his reach and assert his superiority. His pride is based on his high birth. More than his intrinsically sensual nature which, in Tirso&#039;s Don Juan, seduced immediately, Moli\u00e8re&#039;s Don Juan implements a rhetoric of seduction to attract the woman he desires. It also uses the promise of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>So we see that the myth undergoes a major transformation because the character of Don Juan no longer exerts an immediate seduction but must use means that are not of his own nature.<\/p>\n<p>The English Don Juans of the seventeenth and eighteenth are characterized by their violence. We are witnessing the explosion of instincts. It is no longer just the erotic and sensual instincts but all forms of instincts. This explosion sets itself up in law,<\/p>\n<p>In 1787, the libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte appeared, featuring a Don Juan with a fierce appetite for life, bringing together the characteristics of the libertine aristocrats of the eighteenth century. It is situated in temporal immanence, living in the moment and rejecting all morality or religion. Mozart creates his opera <em>Don Giovanni<\/em> from Da Ponte&#039;s libretto and performed it for the first time in Vienna in 1788.<\/p>\n<p>The musical Don Juan fully agrees with an epicurean Don Juan who enjoys every moment lived. The music conveys a sovereign and seductive sensuality through its intrinsic strength. The appearance of the commander at the end of the opera is preserved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Nineteenth-Century Don Juan: &quot;A Romantic Hero Seducing As Much As He Is Seduced&quot;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The nineteenth-century Don Juan is the heir to Mozart&#039;s Don Giovanni. The music seems to have caused him to lose the cynicism and perversion of the Moli\u00e9resque hero. The Don Juan therefore presents himself as a seductive romantic hero as much as he is seduced. He is romantic because he attracts love without implementing the resources of a calculated seduction. He also carries within him an image of a feminine absolute whose search becomes a disproportionate and melancholy quest.<\/p>\n<p>If he leaves the women he meets and loves, it is therefore not because of the satisfaction of purely sensual desires but either because of fate, or because the ideal of the woman he loves, whom he imagines as unique, does not can never correspond to reality. As Gendarme de B\u00e9votte remarks, Hoffmann seems to offer the first figure of a romantic Don Juan in his <em>Fantasiesst\u00fccke in Callot&#039;s handle <\/em>published in 1814.<\/p>\n<p>The title became &quot;<em>Don Juan<\/em>, eine fabelhafte Begebenheit, die sich mit einem reisenden Enthusiasten zugetragen\u2019 (<em>Don Juan<\/em>, fabulous adventure arrived at an Enthusiast). This Don Juan restores the link with the absolute and beauty, he becomes \u201cthe symbol of man&#039;s aspiration towards supreme beauty. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Don Juan replaces the divine absolute with the feminine absolute and opposes with all his might the prosaic and relativistic love imposed by bourgeois society. Don Juan is now the embodiment of the rebellion of the solitary individual in the face of any coercive force, whether social or religious. He takes on the romantic aspirations that agitate the century and partly loses his ability to really enjoy his conquests.<\/p>\n<p>Versions of this romantic Don Juan multiplied in nineteenth-century Europe. the <em>Don Juan<\/em> by Byron is a particular example to which we will return. Pushkin writes <em>The stone guest<\/em> in 1830 in which Don Juan attains superhuman and almost divine greatness. Musset offered in 1832, in <em>Namuna<\/em>, a conception of a Don Juan as thirsty for a beauty that only woman can offer him.<\/p>\n<p>He is a poetic Don Juan, removed from all sordid cynicism, who absolutizes love and devotes his existence to it. Redemption becomes possible again, as shown by the works of M\u00e9rim\u00e9e and Dumas, <em>the Souls of Purgatory<\/em>, in 1834, and <em>Don Juan de Mara\u00f1a or the fall of an angel<\/em>, in 1836. These two works reconcile two <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">legends<\/a>, that of Don Juan and that of Don Miguel Ma\u00f1ara, who lived in Seville in the seventeenth century, had a debauched youth but was later of great piety.<\/p>\n<p>The Don Juan sketched out in the nineteenth century is therefore an absolutely romantic hero. The authors who are attached to this subject decide to highlight this or that particular aspect of the myth, thus creating a character with many facets but which nevertheless remains Don Juan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mythologie Ib\u00e9rique Wiki Le s\u00e9ducteur mythique Don Juan appara\u00eet en 1630 sous la plume de Tirso de Molina. 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