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SOURCE: Rodríguez, Alfred. “Tirso's Don Juan as Social Rebel.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 30, No. 1 (Spring 1978): 46-55.
In the following essay, Rodríguez concentrates on Don Juan's pattern of “social defiance” in El burlador de Sevilla.
Ortega y Gasset's identification of Don Juan with vital authenticity—with that fundamental exigency of life that makes all impediments to its fulfillment, whether imposed by reason or society, cause for rebellion—clarified this literary creature's myth-figure status:
Tal es la ironía irrespetuosa de Don Juan, figura equívoca, que nuestro tiempo va refinando, puliendo, hasta dotarla de un sentido preciso. Don Juan se revuelve contra la moral, porque la moral se había antes sublevado contra la vida. Sólo cuando exista una ética que cuente, como su norma primera, la plentiud vital, podrá Don Juan someterse.1
We concur with this appraisal of the Don Juan: myth-symbol of the dynamic...
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