FROM DON JUAN TO SEXUAL VAMPIRISM
Extinction of Don Juan
Don Juan,
said George Sand, is a man with body of groom and soul of prostitute.
Literature
and art in general have the power to proceed by symbols. These eventually
become prototypes or elements to show a reality not yet perceived. Literary
works such as Don Juan (1665) by Moliere, Don Juan Tenorio (1884) by Jose
Zorrilla, and The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest (1630) by Tirso de Molina, are good
examples. They, from art, showed a different way to establish relationships
between men and women, outside the moral and social convention. Language becomes more important than the economic
and social conventions.
Don Juan became model for many men who dreamed of reaching the love of women. It is not social stability, but love, the
goal for these men. Don Juan symbolizes the seducer and conqueror,
present in every man.
Don Juan must not
only have good presence. He also needs high verbal ability to
arouse the passions hidden of naive maidens. “It is the quintessence of happiness to conquer,
by a hundred acts of homage, the heart of a young beauty; to watch day by day
the small advances that one makes; to combat, by raptures, tears, and sighs,
the innocent modesty of a heart loath to surrender; to overcome, step by step,
all the little obstacles that she sets in our way, to conquer the scruples on
which she prides herself, and to lead her gently whither we have a mind to
bring her” (Moliere, 68).
The language of Don Juan is based on the exaltation of the physical qualities about
“victim”. He about Charlotte
says: “Ah! Don’t be ashamed to hear the truth
spoken of you.
Sganarelle, what do you say? Is it possible to contemplate anything more
lovely? Turn round a little, please. Ah! What a pretty figure! Lift your head a
bit, pray. Ah! What a dainty face! Open your eyes wide. Ah! How beautiful they
are! Just let me see your teeth a little, won't you? Ah! How amorous they are,
and how inviting are those lips! For my part, I am enraptured, and I never saw
maiden so charming”
(Moliere, 88).
Don Juan
has a conduct against social and religious norms. Because of this, he was
disinherited by his father. “No. A lion’s cub like you is the son of Satan”
(Zorrilla). But, others think, “Don Juan Tenorio is known as the most evil
character in the world, and there’s no man who can get the better of him if
he’s so inclined” (Zorrilla). He is a risky man, and a lucky man, like none
other. “Since there’s no other man like Tenorio on this earth, and his fortune
is proverbial and his deeds are stupendous” (Zorrilla).
The self
image that has Don Juan encouraged him to go ahead. “Nor I, as the entire world
knows, I am no hypocrite, since scandal’s mixed up in it, wherever I choose to
go” (Zorrilla). “Wherever I strayed I trampled on right, virtue, the jade, I
scorned, tricked the might of the law, and women betrayed. I went down the
alleys. And up to the palaces, boarded cloisters, like galleys, and wherever I
sallied, left bitter memories, knew nothing holy” (Zorrilla). He goes into a
mad scramble to assert its existence. This existence is affirmed in competition
with another person of the same gender. And only the number of conquests can make it valuable. The meaning of life depends on how many boasts he
can show to the other. Don
Luis says, “He’ll stay here a few months, then, and really his only yen, really
his only game, is to adore all the French ladies, and fight all the French men”
(Zorrilla).
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