The Heroines of Don Juan

In spite of the large number of female characters who play the major part in the life of the main character in Byron’s Don Juan, it is still the main character himself, Don Juan, who has garnered great attention from the critics. Hence, the present research will focus on the female characters of Byron’s Don Juan and reveal how their sexuality and femininity are represented. It is found that while there are subversion and challenging of femininity and sexuality, such as female unusual sexual prowess exhibited by Gulbeyaz and some other female characters, it is precisely the challenging of feminine conventions and the inability to suppress their sexuality that lead the female characters to their doom. Meanwhile, the female characters who successfully suppress their sexuality have a better ending, or at least, manage to survive.