![]() ![]() ![]() He still has all his good qualities, but he has acquired a knowledge of the ways of the world and is able to analyze and judge that world. ![]() Experience had been his teacher after he left his home at sixteen or seventeen. His mother's system was therefore indirectly responsible for his fall from grace in Canto I.īy the time he is twenty-one, in Canto XVI, Juan has lost some of his impulsiveness and naiveté. Sex education had not been a part of his formal instruction. (part I) I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the. He has all the virtues a boy of sixteen can reasonably be expected to have - except self-control in matters of sex. Juan is by nature kind, friendly, impulsive, courteous, courageous, and sensuous. His education also included an abundance of religious and moral instruction. Since he belonged to the nobility, he was given instruction in the arts of war: riding, fencing, gunnery, and the techniques to be used in assaulting a fortress. He had not been taught "natural history." His education had not prepared him for Donna Julias and Haidées. He was taught the classics from expurgated editions and as a consequence had to learn the basic facts of life from experience. He had received instruction from tutors only and had not attended schools. Juan was the product of an experiment in education which was arranged for him by his mother. ![]() Byron himself had made a grand tour in the Near East after he received his degree from Cambridge. At the age of sixteen Don Juan has completed his formal education and is ready to set out on the "grand tour" which, in England, often followed graduation from the university. ![]()
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