In the poem “Don Juan Canto One” by Lord Byron, the question can be asked of whether Don Juan is a funny piece like Byron says or if it is not a very funny piece like his publisher John Murray believes. The first canto can be divided into three parts. Part one is where Bryon describes Don Juan’s parents and their relationship. The second part Byron shows Don Juan at age sixteen and Don Juan sleeping with a married woman named Julia. The third and last part Byron shows the aftermath of Don Juan’s and Julia’s indiscretion. Each section has elements in it that will determine whether the poem was intended to be funny or not. One element that will determine if the intention of the poem is to be funny is the mood of the poem. A second element that will determine the intention of the poem is the stereotype used by Bryon in each of the parts. The last element that will determine the purpose of the poem either being funny or not is the
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In the line two hundred and thirty-two it states, ““What magnanimity!”” This line seems sarcastic with the exclamation point and this is further proven in the next segment in the line, “ ̕ Tis also pleasant to be deem’d magnanimous,/ The more so in obtaining our own ends;” (235-236). These line the Byron has put in the poem suggest the Inez is not really magnanimous but simply pretending to be to get what she wants. No part of using the word magnanimity to describe Inez is joking but it just demeans her and Bryon seems to do this only to the women and not to Jose. This is seen when Jose is being described as being honorable after Byron said that Jose, “Went plucking various fruit without her leave” (144). Bryon allows redemption of character for Jose but not for Inez. This shows Byron’s intentions of this poem as not being funny because Jose is being poked fun at but Inez is, which shows the mean intent towards women instead of a
In the line two hundred and thirty-two it states, ““What magnanimity!”” This line seems sarcastic with the exclamation point and this is further proven in the next segment in the line, “ ̕ Tis also pleasant to be deem’d magnanimous,/ The more so in obtaining our own ends;” (235-236). These line the Byron has put in the poem suggest the Inez is not really magnanimous but simply pretending to be to get what she wants. No part of using the word magnanimity to describe Inez is joking but it just demeans her and Bryon seems to do this only to the women and not to Jose. This is seen when Jose is being described as being honorable after Byron said that Jose, “Went plucking various fruit without her leave” (144). Bryon allows redemption of character for Jose but not for Inez. This shows Byron’s intentions of this poem as not being funny because Jose is being poked fun at but Inez is, which shows the mean intent towards women instead of a