What is satire?? Parody and satire in Don Juan

 What is satire? Parody and satire  in Don Juan

George Gordon Lord Byron (1795-1821), paying little mind to his being a wistful craftsman, was a great deal of not equivalent to other nostalgic craftsmen in respect of the characteristics of his stanza. By far most of them had moved away from the social worries, for instance from objectivity into the universe of nature and of imaginative psyche similarly as into subjectivity. In any case, in Byron, we see a critical blend of subjectivity and objectivity, for instance of individual and social. Rather than others, he was a great deal of wry to the social defects. From this tendency, Byron made his notable 'mock-epic', Don Juan, revealing and spoofing empty talk and the contamination of high class society, investigating the excellent inclination of the time. Regardless, to make it effective he used psyche humor, ambiguity, distortion, etc.

 

Definition of Satire:

"Satire is a genre of literature and performing arts, usually fiction and less frequently in non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement."

[Elliott, Robert C (2004), "The nature of satire"]

The formal definition of satire is “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices.”

[https://literaryterms.net/satire/]

Parody and satire  in Don Juan

There is a Parody and satire  with unequivocal incongruity on Juan's instruction administered by his mom – as his dad kicked the bucket before. He is instructed at home by uncommon mentors with chose and expurgated writings coordinated and blue-penciled by his mom, so he turns out to be "carefully good"; and sexuality keeps out of his range and information. Be that as it may, the incongruity is, however Juan remains forever innocent and guiltless in sexuality, his last life is overwhelmed by sexual love, by demonstrating his all training unproductive. All in all, what is the explanation?

 

The explanation is the conditions and issue of instruction in contemporary privileged society. The more he is avoided sexuality which is an acquire thing, the more he becomes inquisitive and later turns horrible; on the grounds that interest is exceptionally risky. Another basic explanation turns out to be clear in refrain 52 where the storyteller is extremely unexpected towards Inez, a female watchman, and here he recommends, on the off chance that he had a kid, he would have sent him to school. So the sign is that under a solitary parent of a troubled couple, particularly under a mother, the instruction of a youngster cannot be productive.

 

Byron mocks the instruction and marriage of the female through Donna Inez; by utilizing a term, embellishment. Byron misrepresents Inez by depicting her as "an educated woman, acclaimed for each science known in each Christian language ever named," her memory as 'mine'. Is it reasonable for a lady around then? This misrepresentation arrives at let-down when the storyteller says –

“In short in all things she was fairly what I call

A prodigy. Her morning dress was dimity.”

Here mentioning both discussions of serious intellectuality and insignificant dress together creates humor. That is, Inez’s education was an irony for the contemporary society. Irony towards Inez becomes satire to the whole society when the narrator says –

“Tis pity learned virgins ever wed

With persons of no sort of education,

Or gentlemen, who, though well-born and bred,

Grow tired of scientific conversation.”

But the questions lies somewhere else – were the women at the time free to learn all and to choose their life partner? So this is the satire by Byron.

Byron's parody is on another marriage-marriage between Julia, an extra-commonly wonderful woman of 23, and Alfonso, right around an elderly person of 50. Byron portrays the marriage and remarks on it –

 

Married she was a few years and to a man of fifty,

And such husbands are in plenty.

And yet I think instead of such a one

‘Twere better to have two of five and twenty.

 

Such an odd marriage containing age differentiation is in bounty in the man centric culture. Since being more established the man can undoubtedly cause the lady to depend upon him and prey to him. In any case, after a 'chilly connection' between them what is the outcome? The outcome is the woman's extramarital relationship with others. Be that as it may, if the couple were of same age, this sort of outrage would not occur. Anyway, is Julia just as the women of that society liable?

Inevitably there grows an extramarital physical connection among Juan and Julia. In any case, Byron is a lot of basic and amusing towards Julia.

 “That Donna Julia knew the reason why,

But as for Juan, he had no more notion

Than he who never saw the sea of ocean.”

That is, the storyteller needs to state that having just been hitched and being more seasoned than Juan, Julia thoroughly understands their energy and appreciation for one another. On opposite, this sort of involvement is absolutely obscure to Juan. So all the obligation of this illegal relationship is for the lady, Julia – to talk plainly all the negligence occurs for the ladies in the general public.

Byron ridicules the general public's twofold norm of Punishment for the ill-conceived relationship. Juan is shipped off the European nations for moral reason. However he is remunerated to travel. Then again, Julia is sent into a convent. However she is rebuffed by sending into jail. Thus, the general public's treatment of male and female is clear here.

Finally, the storyteller just communicates a letter sent by Julia from religious shelter to Juan. Yet, this letter sets up Julia to be an alternate kind of character who projects our compassion, as occurs for the instance of the Duchess in "My Last Duchess". She keeps in touch with Juan – “They tell me ‘tis decided; you depart.

‘Tis wise, ‘tis well, but not the less a pain.

I have no further claim on your young heart;

Mine was victim and would be again.

My eyeballs burn and throb, but have no tears”

That is, Julia is the survivor of the general public and again will be; 'yet have no tears' proposes that she can manage her castigation – however she neither acknowledges nor fights the castigation. Additionally subsequent to having lost every last bit of her, she doesn't lament for what mishaps she has confronted. Along these lines, the entirety of this gives her nature of a deplorable character – however the storyteller treats her adversely – while Juan as a detached character.

 

Byron utilizes Don Juan, his legend, as a medium to parody contemporary beautiful pattern, particularly Wordsworth and Coleridge. Juan goes to nature standoffish from society so as to mollify his psychological anguish with the assistance of the 'recuperating intensity' of nature; and turns out to be right around a metaphysician; yet all futile. Out of nowhere Julia's image shows up before his eyes and closures his reasoning. (st. 90, 91, 92) Moreover Byron says –

“Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, and Pope

Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge Southey”

 

Because the neo – classical poets have social concerns while the romantic poets escape from social problems.

 

Byron likewise assaults on the fraud of the characters – Though Donna Inez shows her child, Juan, severe ethical quality, she permits him to blend intimately with Julia, spouse of Alfonso with the end goal of rendering a retribution on Alfonso, her previous sweetheart. Donna Julia, however she guarantees "I will never content" to Juan, finally she gives up to Juan as a functioning accomplice of sexual relationship. Indeed, at her room she savagely professes to be a modest lady, when Juan is on the bed.

 

Byron's parody and satire is likewise coordinated against the void and inconsiderateness of the male individuals from the general public. Don Jose is exceptionally indiscreet to his better half and goes where his psyche leads, and is a man "with no extraordinary love for learning or the educated." Alfonso is another man who one night entered his wife’s bedroom “with more that half the city at his back” in order to discover her illicit relationship with someone.

 

Byron also satirizes some social currents. Though Don Jose and Donna Inez lead “an unhappy sort of life”, they give “no outward sings of inward strife.” It is a tendency of the upper class. Then, the hearers of the story of Jose and Inez repeat to others, “some for amusement others for grudges”. Next, the narrator refers the case of Jose and Inez as a ‘scandal monger’ in order to improve their relationship!

In fine, from the daylight of the above conversation, it's been evident that Byron ridicules the matter of privileged society. Due to the passing of Juan's dad and age-particular marriage of Julia, the story is directed to extramarital connection among Juan and Julia, between the saint and thusly the champion. So the primary topic of the epic is extramarital relationship. Furthermore, his treatment of men and women is truth be told mentionable. Next, he makes a Byronic saint who concedes from other epic legends; he picks him from the Spanish legend. So under this spread, Byron gets prepared to seriously mock English society. In addition, Wordsworth, Coleridge and other sentimental writers have no duty regarding society instead of they escape from the general public.