Dom Juan
- Dom Juan, fils de Dom Louis.
- Sganarelle, valet de Dom Juan.
- Elvire, femme de Dom Juan.
- Gusman, écuyer d' Elvire.
- Dom Carlos, frère d' Elvire.
- Dom Alonse, frère d' Elvire.
- Dom Louis, père de Dom Juan.
- Francisque, pauvre.
- Charlotte, Mathurine, paysannes.
- Pierrot, paysan.
- La statue du Commandeur.
- La Violette, Ragotin, laquais de Dom Juan.
- M. Dimanche, marchand.
- La Ramee, spadassin.
- Suite de Dom Juan.
- Suite de Dom Carlos et de Dom Alonse, frères.
- Un specter.
Don Juan ( Original title: Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre ) is a comedy in five acts by the French poet Molière ( 1622-1673 ). The premiere took place at the Théâtre du Palais Royal on February 15, 1665. The title of the piece is in the original French with an " m " is written (Dom Juan ); "Don" with an " n" is a Spanish honorific.
Action
Don Juan, a go-getting young nobleman and blasphemer with inviting lifestyle lives with his faithful servant Sganarelle in Sicily, where he makes numerous love conquests and young noblewoman as successful as easily seduced maids. He is interested in only the conquest of the young hearts, which he after he was get hold of her, just as quickly turns his back, even if he had to marry the object of his desire. As a particularly tough nut only presents itself Donna Elvira, whom he abducted from a convent to marry her. After he too has dropped, her two brothers cross to Sicily, to avenge the insult of her family. In dealing with its own nationals Don Juan Is rather smugly to condescending, especially the devout Christian life of his father, Don Luis, he met with cynicism. Don Juan's conquests bring him many enmities and some duel, from which he always shows steadfast. He loves challenges, up to this his last: eating with the statue of the Commendatore, Don Juan had killed before, and will now bring him into the fire of hell.
Traits of Don Juan
Don Juan, the boundless limits transgressor
One can see in Don Juan, the archetype of the self-indulgence, which defies all traditional standards, and thus represents the applicable values and ideals in question. As a young, handsome nobleman he puts an incredible ( for its time ) impudence of the day. He skillfully uses of irony and sarcasm, the boorishness and insult, the irreverence and disrespect.
Don Juan is excreted both religious as well as social mores and values of his time: he seduces women, does not respect the sacrament of marriage, already betrothed (see the scene with Charlotte and Pierrot ), he casts a spell, and Donna Elvira is kidnapped by him from a monastery. While large sections of the play he is on the run from aggrieved women and their families. Even the forms of behavior that are placed on him by his aristocratic origin in the cradle and wants to bring him close to his father ( Don Luis ), he vehemently opposes.
Don Juan, the dissenters
Don Juan is a free spirit who does not want to be hampered by rules of religion.
His " creed " is limited to the fact that " two and two are four " (
Pragmatism and exploration featuring Don Juan, who is ready to go again and again in new, difficult to assess situations and to overcome the problems occurring there.
In the scene with the Beggar ( Act 3, Scene 2 ) exercise Don Juan criticism of the non- profit wage of God in the face of perpetual prayer of the beggar. In place of the apparently non-existent divine help is Don Juan his " love of humanity ", due to which he gives the beggar alms.
The end of Don Juan
In the penultimate scene ( Act 5, Scene 5 ) occurs on a ghost, in the Sganarell a sign of the sky looks: O Lord, it is the sky that speaks to you - he gives you a sign. Despite the call of the ghost ( Don Juan is only a moment permitted to be of heavenly mercy partake, and if he repents not soon, is his downfall decided ) shows Don Juan cynical, mocking, arrogant, self-confident, challenging, without any fear and unyielding ( No, it does not mean that I would be able to repent happen what may! ), in contrast to Sganarell. In the last scene ( Act 5, Scene 6 ) both hit the statue of the Commendatore, Don Juan because of his promise to dine with him, staying Don Juan, the persistence in sin leads to a gruesome death. And who spurned the grace of heaven, to meet his thunderbolts. At these words the Commander towards the earth splits amid thunder and lightning. Together with the Commendatore Don Juan sinks in the blazing depth, according to his last words, O heaven! How is me? An invisible fire burns me. I can not! My whole body is a flaming pyre! Oh! What remains is the desperate Sganarelle who sees itself as the unhappy and discontented and miserable laments: My reward, my reward!
Edits
The Flying Doctor ( 1645) · The jealousy of the In -lubricated (1650) · The rash or EXCLUDING ( 1655) · The Love chagrin ( 1656) · The enamored Doctor ( 1658) · The ridiculous precieuses (1659 ) · Sganarell or the supposed cuckold ( 1660) · Don Garcia de Navarra or the Jealous Prince (1661 ) · the School for Husbands (1661 ) · the pests (1661 ) · the School for Wives ( 1662) · the jealousy of Gros- Rene ( 1663 ) · the Impromptu of Versailles ( 1663 ) · the critique of the " School for Wives " ( 1663 ) · the forced Marriage ( 1664) · the Princess of Elis ( 1664) · Love as a doctor ( 1665) · Don Juan, or the Stone Guest ( 1665) · the doctor in spite of himself ( 1666) · The Misanthrope ( 1666) · Melicerte ( 1666) · The comic pastoral poem ( 1667) · The Sicilian, or Love as a painter ( 1667) · George Dandin (1668 ) · Amphitryon (1668 ) · The Miser ( 1668) · The Tartuffe or The Cheat ( 1669) · Monsieur de Pourceaugnac ( 1669) · The great lover (1670 ) · The bourgeois Gentleman (1670 ) · Psyché ( 1671) · The Countess of Escarbagnas ( 1671) · Scapin tricks ( 1671) · The learned Ladies ( 1672) · The Imaginary Invalid ( 1673 )
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