Theme of Love in Don Juan
Theme of Love in Don Juan Love is a dominant theme in Don Juan. Byron has established his own ideas of love and marriage widely and comprehensively in Don Juan, the long narrative poem. He needed the support and the society of women; he liked to be admired and petted and comforted by them. He found that with them he could unburden his troubles. Unlike Plato, Byron does not give emphasis on the spiritual love. Plato always gives emphasis on the spiritual love where there is little emphasis on physical contact. Byron's view of love is not in keeping with that of George Bernard Shaw who castigates the romantic notion of love. Shaw tells in his play Arms and the Man that marriage is not the combination of high-flown desires and romantic passion, but a contract which is a means of bringing into being a better generation. We can see a different type of love in Don Juan. Here the hero seduces women and makes advances indiscriminately. The hero does not hesitate even to establish a physica...