mirrors Byron s real-life fights with a society that judged him for his scandals but was just as hypocritical Donna Inez Byron s Mockery of His Wife Donna Inez Don Juan s mother is one of the poem s funniest characters With her character Byron mocks his own wife Annabella Milbanke Byron and Annabella had a messy marriage She accused him of being cruel and immoral and they divorced bitterly In the poem Donna Inez is described as a bad controlling parent and wife Donna Inez even tries to prove that her husband is mad and wants to get rid of him She even keeps a journal to note her husband s faults She kept a journal where his faults were noted This was Byron s way of mocking Annabella He portrays her as a hypocrite who judges others while hiding her own faults Love Affairs and Scandal Don Juan is portrayed as a charming and attractive young man Byron portrays him as Tall handsome slender but well knit He unintentionally attracts women This is seen in his affair with Donna Julia a married woman This is similar to Byron s own life as he was famous for his love affairs with many women Byron had a famous affair with Lady Caroline Lamb Byron s own love life was full of scandal We can see this in Don Juan s character For example In the poem the scandal of Juan and Julia s relationship leads to chaos just like Byron s affairs ruined his reputation Exile and Loneliness Byron wrote Don Juan while living in Italy away from England He had been forced to leave England because people hated him for his divorce and rumors about his behavior This feeling of being an outsider appears in the poem Don Juan is sent away by his mother after the scandal just like Byron was exiled by society The Poet s Voice Byron Himself The narrator of Don Juan often interrupts the story to share jokes opinions or random thoughts This narrator sounds exactly like Byron charming witty and a bit cynical For example the narrator says about the hero of the poem I want a hero an uncommon want I ll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan We can guess that Byron is speaking directly to the reader here He even makes fun of other poets and critics who disliked his work This makes the poem feel like a conversation with Byron making it an amazing autobiographical work In conclusion Don Juan Canto I is like a diary written in verse Byron hides his pain anger and loneliness behind jokes and satire Characters like Donna Inez and Donna Julia let him laugh at his enemies and his own mistakes By mixing his life into the story Byron turns Don Juan into more than a character Don Juan becomes a symbol of Byron s rebellious unapologetic spirit Thus the poem becomes deeply autobiographical