Thinking Activity "The Rape of the Lock" Alexander Pope.

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• The Rape of the Lock:

Alexander Pope, one of the very prominent figures from Neo-Classical Age in English Literature. The Rape of the Lock is mock-heroic narrative poem, published in 1712. It's based on a bit of true event, told by his friend John Caryll. Before start the answer, here I put the basic summary of this poem.

• Answers are here:

1.) According to you, who is the protagonist of the play Clarissa or Belinda? Why? Give your answer with logical  reasons.

I prefer to choose Belinda as the protagonist of the play. In this entire poem, central character is Belinda. Pope portrayed her as, in some negative role as the protagonist. As a reader we first have a sympathy towards Belinda, that how a poor girl she is. But, at the speech of Clarissa, we came to know more about her pride towards her beauty. Clarissa shows her self as a selfish kind of a women. Before her speech she sudden try to help her suitor. Here, Belinda is the character that what pope actually try to show, while Clarissa is not like that. She has some kind of complexity towards Belinda.    

2.) What is beauty? Write your views about it.

As this GIF shows that you see very beautiful, whenever your face in any light. Exactly, what society expect from everyone, especially in woman's case.People wants to see us beautiful in anytime and in anywhere.Why we need this type of "LIGHT" to show our beauty? In this poem, Belinda has her own beauty, but the other has not, it's doesn't mean that they all are not beautiful. That means they all are beautiful, perhaps their inner beauty. 

Here, I put one advertisement, for try to more clear this point. 

In this soap advertisement, there is only one target is that 'Girls Beauty of Looking (Physically). This word Physically Appearance is very highly problematic word or use by people for girls. In this video, every girls perhaps rejected by other people's taunt.Here, physical appearance being played main role in our lives rather than our virtues,self-dedication, inner strength, own dreams, own freedom towards our dreams and so many things.  

According to my point of view, many of times, we need some attention from other people's. We need like Belinda that, for my this beauty people should praise my beauty. Our this deep needs perhaps make us very lower in front of our eyes. Which we can't see.

3.) Find out a research paper on "The Rape of the Lock". Give the details of the paper and write down in brief what does it say about the Poem by Alexander Pope.

I found one research paper from University of Delhi, Delhi, India, named,Dr. Meeta Mathur who is Associate Professor at

Department of English. Want to see this research paper, just CLICK HERE.

In Abstract, scholar introduced us Pope's this literary work, or also wrote about that is poem is based on a some true event on Miss Aabella Fermor and Lord Peter. Further he wrote that,pope has glorified the trivialities of the youth, the degeneration of society with prosperity unaccompanied by sensibility. He also mention literary terms,

• Index Terms: mock epic, heroic, trivial, society, youth, parody, self-indulgence.

• Mock-epic Heroic poem:

• About Mock-epic poem: a dignified genre is put to witty use without being demeaning it in anyway.
• Ironic parallels to familiar passages in Homer and Virgil.
• A mock heroic poem
• is a parody of an epic and not the ridicule of a literary form as some critics believe it to be. 
• the invocation of the muse, the proposition of the subject, the descriptions, the moralizing all aside, only the speeches and the battle are practically the only structural features that are modeled on the epic.

Scholar wrote about that, Pope was more concerned about Miss Fermor and Lord Peter rather than with Homer and Virgil.The game of ombre is dignified by several elaborate similes, such as the comparison of the scattering of cards to the dispersal of a routed army, as it is the battle of beau and belles. Agame of romps was never so well dignified before. The comparison drawn between sun and Belinda is quite paradoxical.Pope uses many periphrases and uncommon appellations for the scissors with which Lord Peter performs the rape – “two edg’d weapon”, “little engine”,“glittering forfex”,“fatal engine”, “sheers”, “meeting points”

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