Byron is very accurate observer of man and women. He has made a prolonged and deep study of man through which he has discovered two vital aspect of life. Such as – love and marriage. The theme of love is a common feature of the romantic poet. But the way Byron delineates love and marriage essentially makes him different from other romantic poet.
Byron’s idea of love and marriage is presented in the first conto of Dhon Juan. Here he presents a pair of couples as the principal characters. Both the couples are unhappily married and suffering from the mutual understanding and respects. The first couples Dhon Jose and Donne Inez lead for something an unhappy sorts of life wishing each other not divorced but dead. They lived representatively as a man and wife. Donne Inez is a hypocrate, old-natured women who offers no love to her husband. In her young days, she had a romantic affair with Done Alfanso. Her husband Done Jose is a good natured essay going kind of man inclined to taking his pleasure where he finds them. Donne Inez with the help of druggists and doctors tries to prove that her husband has gone mad, she keeps a dairy and makes a list all his faults there always looking for more evidence to use against him. All attempts for reconciliation fall and lawers recommended divorce but Donne Jose’s sudden death prevent that unpleasant act from happing. This couple is mis-matched by the incompatibility of character and personality. The other couples Donna Julia and Don Alfanso are mismatched by the difference of age and temperament. Julia’s predicament shows the ill effects of the arrange marriage. Julia is the beautiful young wife of Don Alfanso, a man 27 years senior to her. Her husband fails to satisfy her crenal desire.
Thus both the marriage turns out to be loveless.
However the shrewd Donna Inez cultivates a friendship with Donna Julia to mention the association with Don Alfarso, her former lover. On the other hand, Julia’s innocent affection for Juan under goes a great change in course of time. Juan is sixteen; they are in deep love with each other to embarrassment of more sophisticated Julia. She convenes herself with the thought that her love is platonic and will remain so for ever. Again in her absence Jhon suffers emotionally and passes time solitude, thing change with time. They indulge in love making in a moonlit night. For Juan it is an exciting experience for the first adventure in voluptuous youth. But their secret love making detected on a December night, when Julia’s husband along with a number of followers come to charge her bedroom and discovered Juan in Julia’s bed chamber. Through this bed chamber episode, Byron criticizes the social bondage of marriage can not bring peace without the proper combination of age and mentality.
However an analyzing of characters of the illicit lovers and parents reveals Byron’s satiric treatment of love and marriage Julia is also satized in the fact that she deceives herself as well as her husband. Byron makes the lover sympatiatic towards her in spite of so called loss morals. Byron’s attitude is essentially human. The failure of Alfanso to satisfy his wife made her make love with Juan. However both the lovers are punished for their guilt. It is noteable here that the tradition of tropical Byronic hero Don Juan is presented not as a trustless but also as an innocent seducer. In the ideas of Julia’s platonic love, Byron reveals the hyporacy of the society and individual towards love. Julia realizes that she feels a physical desire for Juan but she tries to give it a false colour calling it platonic love. Later in the bower they consummate their love. Byron affirms as human being, both man and woman can not rise above physical desire. The so called spiritual love and platonic love is only an illusion that we used to deceive ourselves. Byron believes that human instincts are inseparable realities, dynamic forces surging towards satisfaction. Any attempts to suppress of deny then would intensify its explosive power.
Passion achieves certain grandeur, but when restrained they corrupt and taint the character. That is what, society ultimately does to an individual by its set ethical and moral values. Byron depicts it is the contrasting love episodes of Juan and Julia.
Byron believe that passion of love is a flow of life which should not be chucked by any means, equally important each sex, for it is a reality of life, while depeeting the themes of love and marriage. Byron emphasized on the incompatibility of character that largely result in unhappy love and marriage.
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