Molieres Don Juan
Although Moliere's Don Juan was written in 1665, its central themes can be carried over through the ages up to today. Moliere creates many fascinating characters limited not only to Don Juan, but his servant, wife, father, and others he encounters throughout the play. In Don Juan, Moliere creates a character who shapes the world to fit his own personal illusions by an egotistical abuse of power. Even greater, is Moliere's ability to create characters who can interact with such a main character, trying to even challenge this abuse of power, however unsuccessful. In this essay, I will examine the characteristics of Don Juan, and the uses of the other characters and how other characters uses their own unique way to try and get Don Juan to change his ways.Don Juan, himself, is a completely egotistical character. Abusing his power to get what he wants when he wants, Moliere "creates a noble and self-contained Tartuffe who needs no aid from an established canon of belief to rule the lives of others". Walker, Moliere, pg. 101. Don Juan has already been born to great blood, and does not need the approval of others to rationalize what he does. His ancestry is reasoning and almost a scapegoat for
Don Juan would not have been such a forgivable person by the reader if it were not for his constant companion. Don Juan is a contradiction himself, the power of his tyranny and at the same time, his dependence upon his "victims", or those he tricks and dehumanizes. All the little things is from a higher source. Representing characters of a modern life, Dona Elvire was the wronged lover, Sgnarelle, the caring friend, and Don Louis the disappointed, irate parent. Sgnaralle asks Don Juan "what he believes in", to which Don Juan answers " I believe two plus two makes four and four plus four equals eight" (pg. I reflected that in order to marry you I stole you from the Enclosure of a convent, that you broke your vows That bound you elsewhere, and the Heaven is very Jealous of this kind of thing. Although Don Juan sees nothing wrong with this reasoning, his friends, family, and lovers all see what disastrous path this life will lead the main character on. When Don Juan stated "to be dead from our youth on to all other beauties" and " "in the tranquility of love we fall asleep", it almost sounds that he is afraid to grow up and does not want to contemplate his own mortality.
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