What does Don Juan mean?

There are multiple meanings.

1, Don Juan (Byron created a novel in verse) "Don Juan" is a long novel in verse, written by Byron. The novel shows the real life of Europe at the beginning of the 19th century through the life experiences of the main character Don Juan in different countries such as Spain, Greece, Turkey, Russia and Britain, and satirizes and criticizes the "Holy Alliance" and the reactionary forces in Europe.

2. Don Juan (the character in the novel "The Mocker of Seville") Don Juan is the main character in Tirso de Molina's novel "The Mocker of Seville". French playwright Molière's satirical comedy Don Juan and English poet Byron's long poem Don Juan were modeled after this character in the play. The modern Don Juan is defined as a lecherous man who wants to possess the flesh of the greatest number of women to satisfy his male vanity.

So, Don Juan-style sex is sex without love at all. Don Juan seeks only the flesh of women; he never puts emotion into sex with women; he never uses money to buy sex; he wants to lure women into bed with him in the spirit of his masculinity. When he gets a woman's body, he immediately moves on to a new conquest; because he has to keep conquering women in order for his male vanity to keep it full. As a household character, the story of Don Juan has been used successively by Molière, Byron, George Bernard Shaw and Mozart as a subject for literary and musical composition.

3. Don Juan is from a two-act opera written by Mozart and first performed in 1787. The main character, Don Juan, is a typical character in medieval Spain who specializes in the audacity of seeking flowers, and he is both brazen and shameless, but brave, witty, and doesn't believe in ghosts and gods; he uses his charms to deceive many village girls and ladies, but he is finally dragged into hell by the ghosts.

4. Don Juan (Symphony composed by Richard Strauss): Don Juan is a single-movement work for large orchestra composed by German composer Richard Strauss in 1888. The work was first publicly performed on November 11, 1889, with the composer himself as conductor and the Weimar Opera Orchestra as orchestra.

5, Don Giovanni (2018 Opera): "Don Giovanni" is a full production of Mozart's classic opera by the National Grand Opera House, with Lv Jia as the conductor, which was performed from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, 2018, at the National Grand Opera House.

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