The synopsis of "Don Juan": Don Juan's life experience in different countries such as Spain, Greece, Turkey, Russia and the United Kingdom shows the real life in Europe in the early 19th century; through his various romantic adventures, it describes It depicts the various figures, landscapes, cities and social customs in European society. It has a broad picture and rich content. It can be called an art treasure house. It also satirizes and criticizes the "Holy Alliance" and European reactionary forces.
Byron once said in "Don Juan" that he would write one hundred chapters of this poem. However, after writing a small part of sixteen and seventeenth chapters, he went to Greece to participate in the war.
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The poem vividly exposes and satirizes the money worship of the British aristocracy and bourgeoisie. The British ruling class boasted of "freedom" and "rights", but when Don Juan came to London for the first time, he was attacked by bandits.
The poem denounced the British aristocrat Lord Castlereagh as a "villain" and a "slavemaker", and denounced Wellington, who was highly praised by the ruling class at that time, as a "first-rate executioner". The British upper class is gorgeous on the outside, but rotten and ugly on the inside.
"Don Juan" is Byron's most important group of poems. It is half solemn and half humorous, mixed with narrative and discussion. It has realist content and a strange, relaxed and ironic style of writing. Chapters 1 and 2 immediately aroused a huge response after they were published anonymously.
The newspapers and periodicals that defended bourgeois decency in the UK attacked it, accusing it of attacking religion and morality, which was a "satire on decency, good feelings and the code of conduct necessary to maintain society" and "made everyone The normal mind is disgusted,” etc.
But at the same time, it is also highly praised. Writer Walter Scott said that "Don Juan" is "as all-encompassing as Shakespeare. He covers every topic in life, plucks every string on the sacred piano, and plays the tiniest to the strongest and most soul-shaking words." "The poet Goethe said, ""Don Juan" is a work of complete genius - cynical to the point of desperate poignancy, tender to the most delicate and touching point of beautiful emotion..." . After writing the sixteenth chapter of "Don Juan", Byron was ready to devote himself to the national liberation movement of Greece.