Don Juan Themes

Lord Byron was born into a pretty posh family and he knows a thing or two about how to raise a spoiled child. He puts Don Juan in the same position early in Don Juan, saying that DJ is basically a...

If you've heard the expression "He's a Don Juan" before, you know that a "Don Juan" is a guy who gets lots of sexual attention. Traditional stories tend to show the character of Don Juan as a middl...

In a poem where Byron makes women into sexual aggressors and Don Juan into a passive lover, there are bound to be some interesting points about gender roles and sexual education. For starters, Byro...

On several occasions in Don Juan, Byron makes a point of reminding us that DJ is just a young and inexperienced man. He does this to make Don Juan come across as an innocent observer in a world tha...

Byron is concerned with the question of childhood education because he thinks it's the main reason why people become bad or good adults later in life. This is true for Don Juan, whose doting mother...