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Gorge Gordon, Lord Byron

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  • eringuydish // October 14, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    It seems in our class that a lot of us are interested in the parallels between an authors’ life and the writers’ works. In Don Juan there are many obvious relations to Byron’s life story. Byron does not manifest himself as the character Don Juan but rather stays a separate narrator. Julia parallels to the nurse suspected of child molestation, and yet he seems to take a pleasure in it. Due to this fact it might be why the molestation is never called that, but is instead referred to as an early initiation into manhood. It is also evident through his identification of Donna Inez as the personification of his estranged wife.
    Byron’s work is romantic in the respect that he deals with exotic locations, but he pulls away from this tradition when he seems to allow the women in his life to control his sexual life rather than control their sexual future himself. He aligns himself with romantics by staying true to forms and by not inventing, altering, or straying from these forms. He is a romantic in his focus on the solitude and influence of nature on human life, as well as the influence of human’s on each other. He is radical in the discussion of cannibalism and through the eating of the loyal dog, which can be interpreted as symbolism a majority of systems. He is distinguishing himself as different from other Romantic writers, poets especially, by not becoming the main narrator of his story (as Woodsworth for example has so often done) but by keeping himself as a separate entity.

  • rholmes267 // October 20, 2008 at 11:33 am

    I agree that many of us have taken a direct interest in the authors lives and the text. The text can usually identify the important factors of an authors life as well as his/her life. As Erin notified, the Byron text offers many things about his own life which show the readers what he believed in and what his life was like.

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