A Biographical Analysis of Don Juan开题报告

 2022-07-13 15:20:22

1. 研究目的与意义

Byron#8217;s long narrative poem Don Juan enjoys a special position in the literary world in the 19th century. It is also Byron#8217;s most popular poem. Don Juan is the forth immortal figure in the western history of literature after Quixote, Hamlet and Faust. Its success is not only owing to Byron#8217;s talent in writing poems, but also thanks to Byron#8217;s magnetic personality. The story of Don Juan started from the legend in western Europe. In the legend, Don Juan was a criminal, evil, unrestrained noble; he seduced the daughter of commander of Seville. When the commander found him to query him, he killed the commander. Then commander#8217;s ghost came to revenge, and at last the ghost pulled Don Juan into the hell. In the 17th century, Spanish author Gabriel wrote a drama based on the Don Juan legend. After that, Don Juan#8217;s story roused many people#8217;s interest. For example, it appears in Moliere#8217;s drama, Mozart#8217;s opera, Corneille#8217;s poem and Hoffman#8217;s work. Balzac created Long Life Water based on this story. Dumas wrote Fallen Angel which is similar to the Don Juan story. Shavian also wrote it into his drama. However, Byron#8217;s Don Juan was the most popular one and is still loved by many people nowadays. In this long poem, Don Juan is no more a libertine noble but a kind, infirm, sometimes strong sometimes weak young man. The characterization makes Don Juan a real person who can be easily accepted by readers. Don Juan#8217;s story had been enriched through the history and Byron#8217;s Don Juan was said to be an adaption of this story. But actually Byron#8217;s Don Juan shows us a totally different Don Juan who has similar personalities and even life experiences as Byron.

It#8217;s common that authors put their emotions as well as their experiences into their works. In Don Juan, Byron put his opinions about love, revolution and life into the main character. If the readers analyze Don Juan#8217;s actions on the basis of their own experiences and imagination, they may misunderstand some actions of Don Juan. They may even dislike Don Juan so much so that they would stop reading it. Therefore, when reading the book, readers should analyze Byron#8217;s self-expression firstly. An analysis of Byron#8217;s self-expression will enable readers to deeply understand of Don Juan#8217;s opinion on love and ethics and his revolutionary spirit, thus thoroughly grasping Byron#8217;s works.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

Don Juan is a long poem written by George Gordon Byron, one of the greatest romantic poets in Britain in the early 19th century. Don Juan is a satire in the form of a picaresque verse tale, in which the innocent young Don Juan is sent away from his hometown in punishment for his involvement with the married woman Donna Julia. From then on, young Juan undergoes a series adventures caused by the fact that he is attractive to women and easily seduced. It shows Don Juan#8217;s goodness and sense of justice. It describes the different people and customs in European society vividly by describing Don Juan#8217;s experiences. Byron#8217;s Don Juan contains an interesting duality: two characters----Don Juan and #8220;I#8221;, the author; two periods---- the late 18th century during which the story happened, and the 1920s when Byron lived. The main character, Don Juan, has much in common with Byron in life experiences and personality. Byron#8217;s whole life was legendary. Throughout his lifetime, he battled for the ideal life. He was positive and courageous in revolution. He participated in the Greece national liberation movement and became one of the leaders. So in his poetry, he portrayed many #8220;Byronic heroes#8221;. Don Juan is Byron#8217;s typical work and a representative of #8220;Byronic hero#8221;.

In the 19th century, no British poet could be more attractive than Lord George Byron. During his lifetime, he was the central figure of the social storm, and his death was spectacular and attracted the attention of the whole world. What kind of person on earth was Byron? Don Juan, whose personalities are complicated and contradictious, who has lived a life full of frustration and colorful experiences, was Byron himself in most cases. So the poem has some biographical questions to be researched.

The biographical questions can be researched in the following aspects:

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3. 国内外研究现状

To some extent, Don Juan is an autobiography of Byron. This point has been discussed by many readers and researchers all over the world. They have analyzed the similarities between Byron and Don Juan thoroughly.

Li Tianying showed her opinions on Don Juan and Byron in her paper #8220;Study of Don Juan and Byron#8221;in Journal of Tianshui Normal University, 2010. She analyzed the history of Don Juan in literature. She did research on different opinions about Don Juan and Byron. For example, whether Don Juan is moral or not, the Byronic heroes and Byron's peculiarity in the creation of Don Juan. Those researches naturally led to a conclusion that Byron himself had bigger influence on the literary world than his work. Byron's value surpassed the limit of Times and countries.

Zhu Qiongqiong analyzed Don Juan in a paper published in Journal of Heilongjiang Science and Technology Information, 2009. She researched Byron's opinions on life, liberty, love and death. She thinks that the female roles in Byron's poetry are lacking subjectivity and sense of reality. It appears that Byron had a contradictory opinion on women. Furthermore, Byron showed deep consciousness of death in the creation of Don Juan.

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4. 计划与进度安排

2022.10.26-2022.10.31 searching for the references and choosing the topic

2022.11.1-2022.11.23 confirming the topic

2022.12.1-2022.12.31 writing the research proposal

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5. 参考文献

[1] Byron, George Gordon. Don Juan [M]. London: Penguin Classics, 2005.

[2] Castaneda, Carlos.A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan[D],1972.

[3] Dyer，Gary. Thieves, Boxers, Sodomites, Poets: Being Flash to Byron's Don Juan[J]. Pmla, 2001(3):562.

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