Mistakes In Don Juan

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Don Juan is a narrative story about a young man who is stunningly handsome from the moment he is born. He grows up and becomes even more attractive and it is quite amazing how attractive all of the girls think he is. When we walks into a room he is immediately recognized and everyone knows exactly who he is. Because he is so physically attractive, he turns into quite the player and man whore. He has sex with an insane number of women during his teenage and early adult life. Three messages from Don Juan would be don’t live a shallow life, live in the present, and learn from other people’s mistakes. To begin with, one message from Don Juan would be that you shouldn’t be the type of person that lives a shallow life. Don Juan lived a very shallow …show more content…

If you only learn from your own mistakes and don’t pay attention to other people’s failures, you’ll make a lot of mistakes that could have been avoided. By reading this story about Don Juan, many young adults can learn from his mistakes and not live a shallow and unfulfilled life like he did. “Ambition was my idol, which was broken before the shrines of Sorrow and Pleasure; and the two last have left me many a token O’er which reflection may be made at leisure:” (Page 862, Lines 33-36) If you choose to ignore this story and decide to learn on your own, you’ll have a much more fretful life because there will be so many more mistakes that you make that you have to fix. Don Juan is a story about a young man that gets all of the ladies, but unfortunately he uses it to his advantage in a very unholy way. He uses he gifts to play women and use them for sex. This is wrong in so many ways and hopefully because this poem has been made famous it will stop other people from doing what he did. And it doesn’t necessarily have to be in the same context, there are many messages here that don’t just have to do with playing women. Don Juan finally learned his lesson when he was thirty years old and hopefully he turned his life around and lived a more fulfilled