Before this site I did not know Don Juan, and all this talk about don juan made me curious. So I went online and google The History of Don Juan,
and heres what I find out.
The original Don Juan was written by a monk! Gabriel Tellez
And the original Don Juan is not the Casanova type!(i just though DJ's should know)
This Don Juan leaves his women crying and in tears!(Bad Boy type exactly)
Basically The Point of this thread is the original Don Juan is just a plain bad guy. Who acts like a kid!
(I cut and paste the bottom from this linkhttp://other9.tripod.com/scr/dj.html )
"Don Juan Tenorio first appeared 380 years ago in Renaissance Spain, a young aristocrat who dallied and played between the twin extremes of passion and repression, untouched by either. His creator was Gabriel Tellez, a monk who wrote under the name of Tirso de Molina. The play was El Burlador de Sevilla. Here was the root of all that followed. However, this Don Juan is not yet the irresistible lover. He doesn't leave women smiling, but in tears. He disguises himself as a woman's fiance in order to violate her.(Jerk) The first time he does this, the lady is disgraced and the man is forced into exile.(wtf) He uses the same stratagem a second time without success, and kills the girl's father, who tried to intervene. The fiance, a friend of Juan's, narrowly misses being hung for the crime. Juan deceives two peasant girls by promising marriage, taking one from her wedding feast. The second girl's house he burns to cover his retreat.(Don Juans is a BAD BOY)
In all, he never blinks or flinches, never wastes a thought for the thunderbolt God must surely be preparing for him. Death is far off, and the afterlife is just a fairy tale. Don Juan's disbelief gives him complete liberty of action and freedom from fear. Nothing in heaven, earth, or under the earth can make him turn a hair.(Basically his fearless)
When he comes upon the memorial statue of Commander Gonzalo, the man he murdered, he tweaks the statue's beard and invites the dead man to dinner. That night at dinner, the stone commander arrives and invites Juan to dine at his tomb. Juan never hesitates; he takes the statue's hand, and though he feels his heart freeze within him, passes it off as "imagination." At the tomb, Juan eats the strange dinner without complaint: tarantulas, vipers, and fingernail fricassee, washed down by vinegar, frost and ice. At last, the statue offers his hand again, asking Juan if he is afraid. The answer is no: Juan grips the statue's hand, and the stone commander sinks into the earth, dragging Juan alive to hell.
This is the original Don Juan: elemental and intense, open only to his own pleasure, utterly indifferent to the consequences of his actions, possessed by the same false sense of invulnerability that children enjoy.(Is this really False Invulnerablity?) He has no real interest in any external thing. In a word, he is a narcissist. It's no surprise that the best and most compelling portraits of Don Juan are works for theatre; Juan is a man of action. His inner life is almost nonexistent."
Heres my questions:
What quality or quality's from this don juan should a Man have?
"open only to his own pleasure, utterly indifferent to the consequences of his actions, possessed by the same false sense of invulnerability that children enjoy."
Is this really a False sense Invulnerablity? because we are all vulnerable young and old! How are we to be child like?
and heres what I find out.
The original Don Juan was written by a monk! Gabriel Tellez
And the original Don Juan is not the Casanova type!(i just though DJ's should know)
This Don Juan leaves his women crying and in tears!(Bad Boy type exactly)
Basically The Point of this thread is the original Don Juan is just a plain bad guy. Who acts like a kid!
(I cut and paste the bottom from this linkhttp://other9.tripod.com/scr/dj.html )
"Don Juan Tenorio first appeared 380 years ago in Renaissance Spain, a young aristocrat who dallied and played between the twin extremes of passion and repression, untouched by either. His creator was Gabriel Tellez, a monk who wrote under the name of Tirso de Molina. The play was El Burlador de Sevilla. Here was the root of all that followed. However, this Don Juan is not yet the irresistible lover. He doesn't leave women smiling, but in tears. He disguises himself as a woman's fiance in order to violate her.(Jerk) The first time he does this, the lady is disgraced and the man is forced into exile.(wtf) He uses the same stratagem a second time without success, and kills the girl's father, who tried to intervene. The fiance, a friend of Juan's, narrowly misses being hung for the crime. Juan deceives two peasant girls by promising marriage, taking one from her wedding feast. The second girl's house he burns to cover his retreat.(Don Juans is a BAD BOY)
In all, he never blinks or flinches, never wastes a thought for the thunderbolt God must surely be preparing for him. Death is far off, and the afterlife is just a fairy tale. Don Juan's disbelief gives him complete liberty of action and freedom from fear. Nothing in heaven, earth, or under the earth can make him turn a hair.(Basically his fearless)
When he comes upon the memorial statue of Commander Gonzalo, the man he murdered, he tweaks the statue's beard and invites the dead man to dinner. That night at dinner, the stone commander arrives and invites Juan to dine at his tomb. Juan never hesitates; he takes the statue's hand, and though he feels his heart freeze within him, passes it off as "imagination." At the tomb, Juan eats the strange dinner without complaint: tarantulas, vipers, and fingernail fricassee, washed down by vinegar, frost and ice. At last, the statue offers his hand again, asking Juan if he is afraid. The answer is no: Juan grips the statue's hand, and the stone commander sinks into the earth, dragging Juan alive to hell.
This is the original Don Juan: elemental and intense, open only to his own pleasure, utterly indifferent to the consequences of his actions, possessed by the same false sense of invulnerability that children enjoy.(Is this really False Invulnerablity?) He has no real interest in any external thing. In a word, he is a narcissist. It's no surprise that the best and most compelling portraits of Don Juan are works for theatre; Juan is a man of action. His inner life is almost nonexistent."
Heres my questions:
What quality or quality's from this don juan should a Man have?
"open only to his own pleasure, utterly indifferent to the consequences of his actions, possessed by the same false sense of invulnerability that children enjoy."
Is this really a False sense Invulnerablity? because we are all vulnerable young and old! How are we to be child like?
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