byron
Byron (1788- 1824), the author of Don Juan, is an outstanding English poet and one of the important representative writers of European romantic literature. His poems eulogize freedom and democracy with pungent social satire and criticism, which greatly inspired the national democratic movement in Europe and aroused strong * * * in the hearts of revolutionaries all over the world.
Don Juan is one of Byron's representative works, which shows Don Juan's kindness and justice. Through his various romantic adventures, he described all kinds of figures, famous mountains and rivers and social customs in European society, with a broad picture and rich content, which can be called a treasure house of art. Byron said in Don Juan that he would write a hundred chapters of the poem. However, after he wrote a small part of Chapters 16 and 17, he went to Greece to participate in the war. The contents of the existing books are as follows.
In Seville, a famous city in southern Spain, there lived a big noble named Don Jose. He is rich and has a good reputation. Don Jose's wife is also of noble birth. She is not only beautiful and virtuous, but also knowledgeable. She can speak many foreign languages and is widely respected among women in high society. They love each other very much, but they gave birth to a son named Don Juan in middle age. Unfortunately, Don Jose died prematurely. His wife is determined to train her son into a great man, teach him military, art, natural science and so on, and especially educate him to pay attention to feudal ethics.
Don Juan was lively and lovely when he was a child and a handsome man when he grew up, which is rare among aristocratic children. He is romantic by nature and likes to importune with girls. Morality has no influence on him. At the age of 16, he had sex with the lady Donna Julia, which caused an uproar in the upper class. For Don Juan's safety, his mother had to send her son to Europe.
The ship was hit by a big storm on its way to Italy, damaged and gradually sank. Some sailors were desperate and asked Don Juan to give them a lot of wine to drink, so that they would suffer less when they sank into the sea after getting drunk. Don Juan rejected their demands, lambasted them as animals, and said that men should die like men. He forced and supervised the sailors to repair the cabin and drain the stagnant water. Under his command and efforts, the ship finally didn't sink. He also struggled to rescue the waiter who fell into the water and the puppy left by his father.
After the rescued ship drifted at sea 12 days, there was nothing to eat on board and the sailors began to eat people. The old and the weak became the first to be eaten. Don Juan couldn't bear to eat the teacher and was forced to jump into the sea and leave the ship.
He struggled in the sea and swam to the Clardy Islands. He was rescued by a beautiful young girl and hid in a cave by the sea. The girl's name is Haidian (or translated as Hyde), and she is the daughter of the Greek pirate Lambro. The men she usually meets are pirates or fishermen. They are ugly and rude. Now there is a beautiful young man in front of her, which almost fascinates her. Soon, they moved in together.
Soon, there came the news that Lambro was accidentally killed in a robbery at sea. When his father died, he had no worries, so Haidian decided to marry Don Juan openly. Haidian and Don Juan held a grand wedding. Pirates and people warmly congratulated and drank all night.
As they entered the bridal chamber together, Lambro suddenly appeared. He ordered his entourage to knock Don Juan down, put him on a boat and escort him to Constantinople, a big city in Turkey, for sale. Constantinople has the largest slave market in the world, auctioning slaves from Europe, Asia and Africa from morning till night every day. The so-called slaves are pirates, civilians, prisoners of war, tourists and so on. Captured by colonists, tribal chiefs and officers from all over the world.