Cliffs Notes on Byron's " Don Juan"

by Dougald B. MacEachen

Don Juan is a rambling, unfinished, and vast literary creation that succeeds as an epic carnival. The story of the legendary lover's travels and romantic escapades has scope, variety of human types and experience, common sense, laughter, observation, and ease. It is not especially deep or intellectual, but is a broad and brazen slice of human existence, writ large.