It has something for every kind of reader and a good deal that will please no reader. Such an ending would have been consistent with the personality and character of Juan, who is swept along with the current, who does not seek out but is sought out.ĭon Juan is such a vast creation that it is difficult to judge it as a whole.
He could have had Empress Catherine, or her son Paul I, transfer her envoy to France, perhaps as a spy, and have him blunder into the guillotine while being pursued by some beautiful goddess of reason. That would have made a suitable conclusion to a drifting, planless life just as the Greek revolution made a suitable, even immortalizing, conclusion to Byron's drifting, planless life. Byron spoke once or twice of letting Juan be killed off in the French Revolution. All Byron had to do was to change the locale and introduce new episodes. It could have gone on indefinitely like a comic strip as long as the public showed an interest in its continuation. How Byron might have ended it is idle speculation. Like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Byron's Don Juan is an unfinished poem.
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