To disguise his crimes, his moral deviance, its lack of humanistic consideration, Dom Juan, a man of the world who wants to continue to fulfill his crimes with impunity states:
"There is no shame in it now. Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues The man good character is the best of all the characters that we can play today and the hypocritical profession has wonderful benefits it is an art that imposture is always respected;. and whatever we discover it, we dare to say anything against it all. the other vices of men are exposed to censorship, and everyone has the freedom to attack them highly, but hypocrisy is a privileged vice, which his hand, closes the mouth to everyone, and has a rest . It binds sovereign impunity, grimaces to force a close corporation with all the party people who in a shocking, throws them all on the arm. and even those known to be acting in good faith that, and everyone knows to be truly affected, those, I say always the dupes of others; they give highly grimacers in the panel, and blindly support the monkeys for their actions. How do you think I know that by this stratagem, have skillfully dressed disorders of their youth, who have made a shield with the cloak of religion, and, under the respected outfit have permission to be the most evil men in the world? It was nice to know their plots and know them for what they are; they do not let it be for credit among the people; and some head Lowering a mortified sigh, and two rolling eyes readjust all the world what they can do. It is in this favorable habit I want to save me and get my affairs in safety. (...) "- Act V, Scene II.
Dom Juan, theme developed from the early seventeenth century, inspired many authors. The theme of this frantic quest to conquer the other, unfulfilled desire of victory even before the physical possession (which is not the primary objective) is beautifully exposed by Molière. Albert Camus, in the instructions succeeding the play well disassembles the mechanical hell to which subjects the Don Juan in "The Myth of Sisyphus". "Do not believe in the profound sense of things, it is characteristic of the absurd man."
The brillantissime Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's librettist, who married former abbot, knew in my opinion go further than Molière in the understanding of mimetic desire, the insolent exasperation of desire of the other, in the greatest chefs Lumber Mozart's opera - here in its most beautiful expression - Don Giovanni.
Great play, inviting reflection on human nature, games of seduction, certainly, but above all, terrorist mechanical hypocrisy, due absurdity of man in search of a power that always escape him at the time, furtively, he perceive: vanity.
