Don Juan

Having an older brother for me means that everytime I go to the super market I see him pick out these magazines that would only be for players such as Soho and Don Juan. However, I never knew that Don Juan was usually a play, as ignorant as it may sound.

Don Juan is a play about this man who has serious commitment issue and apparently when it comes to love he can't fall right, left, or to the centre. He's a man of many women and who has married more than any other man at that time. Isn't this what any young man's dream is? To have many women and not get in trouble for it whatsoever, not having to marry one particular woman and stick to her for his whole life? Well, this is all part of the rhetoric of Don Juan. 

Don Juans whole life is an appeal to pathos because it's creating empathy between men who watch or read about this play and the main character. They want to be Don Juan. 

Now we could also analyze the rhetoric that is in just the title of this play: Don Juan. Don is someone who is somehow superior and respected in Colombia and what would Don Juan ever be respected for? Well, his many women. Juan alone also allows whoever's watching this play to feel a closer relationship to this character, it's all part of register and rhetoric.

This play algo emphasized the powers of temptation and beauty. Don Juan was never able to resist the temptation of having many beautiful women and this is exactly what in a way was both his recognition and damnation. Apparently fidelity was only for idiots. 

This is a view that is common in our society. Marriage is not as respected nowadays as it was in past generations. Nowadays people can get married and within a few days or even hours file for a divorce was as the case of our beloved Kim Kardashian. Has marriage lost it's meaning with time? If so, what do we stand for now? Is fidelity still common? Is it still out there?