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Haidee is not merely an allegorical figure who represents Greece, Epicureanism, a lost Golden Age, nor the "incarnation of female passion" (Franklin 139). Nor is she a female figure who illegitimately "usurps masculine rule" (139) and must therefore be controlled and contained by a patriarchal tyrant, Lambro, who "returns as if in response to the An Exotic Counter-World in Byron's Don Juan 11 poet's call, to restore masculine discipline" (Franklin 142). On the contrary, Lambro is not portrayed as a positive avenger whose actions are approved of in the poem; instead, he is shown as a ruthless man whose return leads to an act of desecration.

In his voyage of "discovery," then, Don Juan counters the stereotypes of the European voyager, just as Haidee contradicts European stereotypes of women and of the exotic island figure. Haidee and her island-world function as hypothetical models that implicitly contest European norms and conventions. Gerhart Pickerodt argues that the exotic world described in many eighteenth-century texts functioned as a critical model against which European society was measured (Pickerodt 12130). It was not intended so much as an alternative to a civilization gone wrong but as a corrective guide: as a means to find critical distance from contemporary civilization and to suggest ways of remedying the problems thus brought to light.