# Haidée — Don Juan character guide

> Haidée in Don Juan by Lord Byron.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** fair Haidée

**First appearance:** 0007-canto-ii

## Snapshot

A Greek islander's daughter who finds a half-drowned stranger on the shore and loves him with a passion untroubled by law or consequence.

## Who they are

Haidée lives outside ordinary society, on an island ruled by her pirate father, and her love for Juan is the poem's purest and most doomed idyll. She is all feeling and no calculation, which makes her both radiant and vulnerable in a world that punishes unguarded desire. Her brief paradise with Juan gives the epic its tenderest stretch and sets up the loss that hardens him for everything that follows.

## Relationships

### [Don Juan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/characters/don_juan)

_romantic_

Don Juan and Haidée share a passionate, idyllic love affair on her Greek island, ending tragically with her death.

### [Don Juan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/characters/don_juan)

_romantic_

Don Juan and Haidée share a passionate, idyllic love affair on her Greek island, ending tragically with her death.

## In the story

### [Canto II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/chapters/canto-ii)

Introduced as Nature's bride and Passion's child; she finds Juan on the shore and they become lovers.

### [Canto III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/chapters/canto-iii)

Deeply in love with Juan, hosting lavish feasts in her father's absence, forgetting the island belongs to him.

### [Canto IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/chapters/canto-iv)

Haidée shares a perfect love with Juan, but is troubled by a prophetic dream of his death. She bravely confronts her father Lambro to protect Juan.

## Links

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