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He also uses the epic style of invocations, lamentations, exclamations and similes, and in some cases adds parody to imitation by following the framework of actual speeches in Homer's Iliad. Although the poem is humorous at times, Pope keeps a sense that beauty is fragile, and emphasizes that the loss of a lock of hair touches Belinda deeply.It is a satire on contemporary society which showcases the lifestyle led by some people of that age. Pope arguably satirises it from within rather than looking down judgmentally on the characters.Yet you may bear me witness, it was intended only to divert a few young Ladies, who have good sense and good humour enough to laugh not only at their sex's little unguarded follies, but at their own. But as it was communicated with the air of a secret, it soon found its way into the world. An imperfect copy having been offered to a Bookseller, you had the good nature for my sake to consent to the publication of one more correct: This I was forced to, before I had executed half my design, for the Machinery was entirely wanting to complete it.These Machines I determined to raise on a very new and odd foundation, the Rosicrucian doctrine of Spirits.The best account I know of them is in a French book called Le Comte de Gabalis, which both in its title and size is so like a novel, that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these gentlemen, the four elements are inhabited by spirits, which they call Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes or D?mons of Earth delight in mischief; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best-conditioned creatures imaginable. For they say, any mortals may enjoy the most intimate familiarities with these gentle spirits, upon a condition very easy to all true adepts, an inviolate preservation of Chastity.The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones, and the character of Belinda, as it is now managed, resembles you in nothing but in Beauty.http://goldengrainsdubai.com/public_html/userfiles/dell-studio-17-1747-manual.xml He then proceeds to tell the story of this offence. Belinda then awakes and gets ready for the day with the help of her maid, Betty. The Baron, one of Belinda's suitors, greatly admires these locks and conspires to steal one. So protected, Belinda arrives at Hampton Court and is invited to play a game of ombre.When Belinda discovers her lock is gone, she falls into a tantrum, while the Baron celebrates his victory. Finding her dejected in the arms of the woman Thalestris, Umbriel pours the contents over them both.Clarissa admonishes them to keep their good humour, but they will not listen and instead a battle ensues with glares, songs and wits as weapons. Belinda fights with the Baron and throws snuff up his nose to subdue him. When she demands that he restore the lock, however, it is nowhere to be found. It has been made a constellation and is destined to outlast the contestants.Luise Gottsched 's verse translation, Der Lockenraub, was begun in the 1730s, again using a French prose version. However, she revised it totally once she managed to obtain the original text in English and in this way pioneered an interest in English literature in the German-language area.The inner satellite Belinda was discovered in 1986, and is the only other of the planet's twenty-seven moons taken from Pope's poem rather than Shakespeare's works.By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. The action of the poem begins with the rising sun awakening the residents of a wealthy household. Though everyone, including the lapdogs, has risen, Belinda remains asleep. She dreams of a handsome youth who informs her that she is protected by a “thousand bright inhabitants of air:” spirits that were once human women who now protect virgins. The youth explains that after a woman dies, her spirit returns to elemental form; namely, to fire, water, earth, and air. Each element is characterized by different types of women. Termagants or scolds become fire spirits or Salamanders.https://skazkina.com/ru/boss-gt-6-manual-german Indecisive women become water spirits. Prudes or women who delight in rejecting men become Gnomes (earth spirits). Coquettes become Sylphs (air spirits). The dream is sent to Belinda by Ariel, “her guardian Sylph” (20). The Sylphs are Belinda’s guardians because they understand her vanity and pride, having been coquettes when they were humans. They are devoted to any woman who “rejects mankind” (68). Their role is to guide young women through the “mystic mazes” of social interaction (92). At the end of the dream, Ariel warns Belinda of an impending “dread event,” urging her to “Beware of all, but most beware of Man” (109, 114). Belinda is then awoken by her lapdog, Shock. Upon rising, she sees that a billet-doux, or a love-letter, has arrived for her, causing her to forget the details of the dream. Now awake, Belinda begins her elaborate toilette. Pope endows every object from combs and pins to billet-doux and Bibles with significance in this ritual of dressing: “Each silver vase in mystic order laid” (122). Belinda herself is described as a “goddess,” looking at her “heavenly image” in the mirror (132, 125). The elegant language and importance of such objects thus elevate the process of dressing to a sacred rite. The Sylphs assist in Belinda’s dressing routine, setting her hair and straightening her gown. Fully arrayed, Belinda emerges from her chamber. Analysis The opening of The Rape of the Lock establishes the poem’s mock-heroic tone. In the tradition of epic poetry, Pope opens the poem by invoking a muse, but rather than invoke one of the mythic Greek muses, Pope leaves the muse anonymous and instead dedicates the poem to John Caryll, the man who commissioned the poem. The first verse-paragraph also introduces Pope’s epic subject matter: a war arising from “amorous causes” (1). Unlike Menelaus’ fury at Paris’ theft of Helen or Achilles’ quarrel with Agamemnon over Briseis in The Iliad, however, the poem’s “mighty contests rise from trivial things” (2).https://mohacad.com/images/95-triton-workshop-manual.pdf Indeed, these “mighty contests” are merely flirtations and card games rather than the great battles of the Greek epic tradition. The second verse-paragraph encapsulates Pope’s subversion of the epic genre. Furthermore, the “mighty rage” of women evokes the rage of Achilles at the outset of The Iliad, foreshadowing the comic gender-reversal that characterizes the rest of the poem. Rather than distinguish the subjects of the poem as in a traditional epic, Pope uses the mock-heroic genre to elevate and ridicule his subjects simultaneously, creating a satire that chides society for its misplaced values and emphasis on trivial matters. Belinda’s dream provides the mythic structure of the poem. In this segment, Pope introduces the supernatural forces that affect the action of the poem, much the way that the gods and goddesses of The Iliad would influence the progress of the Trojan War. Just as Athena protects Diomedes and Aphrodite supports Paris during the Trojan War, Ariel is the guardian of Belinda. Unlike the Greek gods, however, Ariel possesses little power to protect his ward and preserve her chastity. In this initial canto, Belinda forgets Ariel’s warnings of impending dangers upon receiving a billet-doux. Though charged with protecting Belinda’s virtue, it seems that Ariel cannot fully guard her from the perils of love, unable to distract her even from a relatively harmless love letter. In the dream Ariel indicates that all women have patron sprites, depending on their personality type. Ariel explains that when women die, their spirits return “from earthly vehicles” to “their first elements” (50, 58). Each personality type—scolds, undecided women, prudes, coquettes—becomes a Salamander, Nymph, Gnome, or Sylph, respectively. These four types are associated with both the four humors and the four elements. Having been “light coquettes” as human women, the Sylphs are most closely affiliated with Belinda. Belinda herself is a coquette, and it is this aspect of femininity with which Pope is most concerned. Pope explores the role of the coquette in this first canto. He demonstrates that womanly priorities are limited to personal pleasures and social aspirations. In his description of the Sylphs during the dream sequence, Pope enumerates coquettish vanities. As humans these women valued their “beauteous mold” and enjoyed frivolous diversions, which they continue to take pleasure in as sprites (48). The “joy in gilded chariots” suggests a preference for superficial grandeur and external signifiers of wealth (55). Similarly, their “love of ombre,” a popular card game featuring elements of bridge and poker, indicates a desire for fashionable entertainment (56). Through this love of finery and these trivial pastimes, Pope depicts a society that emphasizes appearances rather than moral principles. This focus on appearance extends to attitudes towards honor and virtue. Society dictates that women remain chaste while enticing suitable husbands. Of course, if a woman seemed to compromise herself, society would censure her as though she had lost her virtue. This concern about female sexuality represents the underlying anxiety in The Rape of the Lock: the theft of the lock (a metonymic substitution for Belinda’s chastity) creates the appearance of lost virtue. At this point in the poem, however, Pope depicts Belinda not as a coquette but as a powerful figure, similar to the (male) heroes of epic poetry. Pope reimagines Belinda’s morning routine as a hero’s ritualized preparation before battle. Her toilette commences as a religious rite in praise of a goddess. Belinda’s reflection in the mirror becomes the image of the goddess while her maid is the “inferior priestess,” worshipping at the altar (127). These “sacred rites” perform a secondary purpose: once the sacraments are performed, the goddess should protect Belinda during her day’s adventures (128). Upon completion of the morning’s ceremony, Belinda begins to array herself, a scene which Pope figures within the epic paradigm as the ritualized arming of the hero. This depiction of Belinda as an epic hero establishes the mock-heroic motifs that occur throughout the poem. GradeSaver, 29 December 2010 Web. This is a motif in many of Shakespeare's sonnets. Comment and exemplify. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Alexander Pope's Poems and Prose. Suggested Response: With Belinda’s morning routine, Pope establishes the mock-heroic motifs that occur throughout the poem. He figures her toilette as the preparation of an epic hero before battle. The scene begins as a religious sacrament. Belinda’s reflection in the mirror is the image of the goddess while Belinda herself presides over the ritual (I.127). The “sacred rites” that she performs—in reality the simple act of dressing herself—act within Pope’s epic paradigm as a prayer to the goddess for success on the battlefield (I.128). In this case, of course, Belinda’s battlefield is the courtly party at Hampton Court Palace. Once the sacraments are performed, Pope depicts Belinda’s toilette as the ritual of arming the hero. Pope refigures the combs, pins, “puffs, powders, patches” that Belinda uses to prepare herself as the arms and armor of the epic hero (I.138). Belinda is not, however, a fearsome warrior such as Achilles or Hector but rather a beautiful coquette. By replacing the martial hero with a charming lady and the battlefield with a palace, Pope demonstrates the diminishing of epic subject matter, a central concern of his social critique. The energies once expended on religious devotion and “mighty contests” are now wasted on the vanities and trivial entertainments of the upper classes (I.2). Suggested Response: Pope reverses traditional gender roles to emphasize the comic absurdity of his subjects’ behavior. Throughout The Rape of the Lock, Pope focuses on the poem’s heroine, imbuing her with the masculine characteristics of the traditional epic hero. After she wins the game she celebrates her victory: “The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky” (III.99). The other women in the poem demonstrate similar behavior. Thalestris easily overcomes many of the men during the fight over the lock, in which the women are the aggressors. The men, by contrast, are mostly foppish and weak. Even the poem’s nominal hero, the Baron, assumes subservient postures and has to be provided with a weapon by Clarissa. The reversal of traditional gender roles exposes the degree to which eighteenth-century society has fallen from epic ideals. Women seemingly overreact to the smallest slights while the men are pathetic fops with no courage. Instead they waste their time gossiping and pursuing frivolous amusements. Be sure to consider his use of the mock-heroic genre. Suggested Response: In The Rape of the Lock, Pope’s satire focuses on the foibles of the upper classes. According to Pope’s poem, these members of society are only interested in trivial matters, a point which he punctuates in his depiction of the card game as an epic battle. In reality an excuse for gambling and flirting, the “battlefield” of ombre becomes the only opportunity for these young aristocrats to gain heroic recognition. Pope reinforces this impotence of the upper classes by demonstrating their ignorance of the world outside of Hampton Court Palace.Suggested Response: As the title of the poem suggests, the cutting of Belinda’s hair has a sexually explicit connotation. In his description of the Baron’s schemes to steal Belinda’s hair, Pope uses the words “force” and “ravish” which reinforce the theme of violation that the poem’s title introduces. The Baron also expresses his willingness to acquire the lock “by fraud betray,” suggesting his comfort with taking advantage of Belinda’s innocence (II.32). Ariel’s suspicion that the foretold “dire disaster” will be a sexual assault further advances the sexual allegory. He worries that Belinda will “stain her honor or her new brocade” (II.107). The staining of Belinda’s honor has explicit sexual implications while the staining of her dress implies both sexual maturity and the loss of virginity. Even the hair itself has sexual connotations. Pope allows for a secondary reading of Belinda’s curls as pubic hairs, which emphasizes the theme of sexual violation. According to Pope’s sexual allegory, Belinda’s virtue is in greater danger than the simple act of stealing her ringlet suggests. Suggested Response: During the eighteenth century, a woman was expected to attract the attentions of men in order to find a suitable husband. Of course, society also demanded that a woman also remain a virgin until she married. A woman who compromised her virtue in the pursuit of a husband was usually ostracized by her acquaintances and lost her place in respectable society. Pope dramatizes this double-standard in his description of Belinda’s petticoat, which essentially serves as a fortification to protect her chastity while her curls attract male admirers. Suggested Response: The supernatural forces that feature in The Rape of the Lock perform a role similar to that of the gods and goddesses in traditional epic poems, such as The Iliad. Just as the gods change the tide of the Trojan War in The Iliad, Pope’s mythic creatures affect the action of the poem. Ariel acts as Belinda’s otherworldly guardian, warning her of threats and protecting her throughout her adventures. It seems, however, that Ariel has limited power to protect Belinda. In the first canto, a love letter distracts Belinda from Ariel’s warning of impending danger. Similarly, when he sees Belinda’s attraction to the Baron in “the close recesses of the virgin’s thought,” he retreats, powerless to defend her (140). Though his duty is to guard Belinda’s virtue, Ariel apparently cannot fully protect her from the perils of love. While Ariel’s role resembles that of a godly guardian—much like Athena’s guidance of Diomedes—Umbriel acts as a threat to Belinda, exacerbating her pain. His role is thus similar to Aphrodite’s attempts to sabotage the Greeks. What are its implications for his social critique. Suggested Response: In The Rape of the Lock, Pope depicts a society all-too-willing to worship beauty, which he depicts as religious perversion. His description of the cross that Belinda wears encapsulates this sacrilege. Although the cross is an obvious Christian symbol, it serves an ornamental, not religious, function. It remains so secular, in fact, that “Jews might kiss” and “infidels adore” it (II.8). Pope even sexualizes the cross, locating it on Belinda’s “white breast,” suggesting that her breasts are the objects of worship, not the cross (II.7). Pope’s subversion of religious worship critiques the value society places on appearances rather than morality. Be sure to discuss some of the interpretive problems associated with it. Suggested Response: Clarissa’s speech questions the value society places on appearances, in particular female beauty. She observes that men worship women as angels without assessing their moral character and that the beauty these men revere is ephemeral: “frail beauty must decay” (V.25). She declares that because beauty cannot last, women must have other qualities to sustain them after they lose their looks. Although Clarissa’s conclusions reflect part of Pope’s critical agenda, reading Clarissa’s speech as Pope’s central moral oversimplifies the poem. Her actions in the poem further problematize the moral superiority she attempts to claim in this speech. Clarissa’s complicity in the “rape” of Belinda’s hair taints her self-righteousness. Furthermore, Pope’s conclusion directly contradicts her central argument that beauty is ephemeral. Pope turns Belinda’s severed hair into a star that people can admire for all eternity while his poem immortalizes her beauty. Suggested Response: In the fourth epistle of An Essay on Man, Pope depicts the source of man’s happiness as virtuous behavior. This blind faith in God emphasizes Pope’s goal in writing the poem, specifically to “vindicate the ways of God to man” (I.16). In the poem’s prefatory address to the reader, Pope states his intention to consider “man in the abstract, his Nature and his State, since, to prove any moral duty, to enforce any moral precept, or to examine the perfection of imperfection of any creature whatsoever, it is necessary first to know what condition and relation it is placed in, and what is the proper end and purpose of its being.” According to Pope’s conclusions about the nature of the universe, God’s creation is an ordered hierarchy in which man has his ordained place. Since man is merely a part in the whole of creation and further exists in a middle state of the hierarchy, man can only perceive a small portion of God’s order. As a man, Pope cannot fully perceive the “proper end and purpose” of mankind. GradeSaver, 29 December 2010 Web. This is a motif in many of Shakespeare's sonnets. Comment and exemplify. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Alexander Pope's Poems and Prose. The new historicist critical approach demands that works be placed within their author’s political, social, and biographical contexts in order not only to offer readers a better understanding of their words and allusions, but also to suggest what might have motivated a writer to produce a specific work. With Pope’s The Rape of the Lock the motivation remains clear, explained by Pope himself. While attending a party, a certain young Lord Petre had as a joke clipped a ringlet from the head of Arabella Fermor. Miss Fermor saw no humor in the act, and her negative reaction caused a break in relations between the Petres and the Fermors. As prominent families in a small Catholic community, of which Pope himself was a part, they threatened to disrupt relationships beyond their own through their quarrel. Lord Petre’s teacher contacted Pope and asked that he write a poem in jest about the event. As Pope wrote to a friend, the tutor John Caryll hoped Pope’s work might for the two families “laugh them together again.” Feeling his work was incomplete, Pope continued revision and published a version expanded to five cantos in 1714 to which he added the sylphs and gnomes that exaggerated the classical effect, as well as engravings. A further 1717 revision included a “moral” spoken by the character Clarissa, and it became one of the most popular published in England’s history. His not-so-subtle message to readers, especially those involved in the incident that inspired the poem, is to take themselves less seriously. Pope successfully transmitted this message because his readers were familiar with the patterns and conventions of heroic epic through their knowledge of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid by Vigil, and Paradise Lost by John Milton. Appearing in a mock version, such patterns and conventions highlight the poem’s thematic absurdity. In the late morning she is attended at her boudoir by her pet dog and the sylphs who arm her against temptation, bolstering her mental and physical chastity. They recall the magical attendants of classical figures as they prepared to enter the battlefield. Belinda’s battle will be fought on the social scene, as she attends a party at a royal palace where she will be called upon to defend her honor carefully. Belinda wins a game of cards and brags a bit too much, and the baron she has beaten decides to take revenge. Another member of the party, Clarissa, “arms” him with a pair of scissors as his “weapon,” and he engages in symbolic “rape” by snipping off Belinda’s curl as she leans down to drink her coffee. Her lead sylph, Ariel, deserts her in impotency, having discovered she may be falling in love. Belinda’s reaction is swift disgust and outrage, and she descends into a psychological Hades, mirroring the descent to gain wisdom prevalent in the classical heroic quest. She inhabits for a time the Cave of Spleen, while other young people “fight” over the event. The lock of hair rises as a star visible only to “quick, poetic eyes.” His motivation for writing the poem becomes immediately evident, as he writes that “it was intended only to divert a few young Ladies, who have good Sense and Good Humour enough, to laugh not only at their Sex’s little unguarded Follies, but at their own.” Although meant to be a private venture, as Pope notes the poem had “been offer’d to a Bookseller.” The reader gains some insight into Fermor’s character as Pope adds, “You had the good Nature for my Sake to consent to the Publication of one more correct.” He then discusses the introduction in this latest version of the “machinery” that includes the mythological characters of the sylphs and demons. Pope concludes with conventional flattery, writing that if his poem “has as many Graces as there are in Your Person, or in Your Mind,” he still could not have hoped “it should pass thro’ the World half so Uncensured as You have done.” In this case rather than mentioning one of the nine traditional muses, he notes “Caryll,” meaning John Caryll, as his inspiration. He sets the scene as “a tim’rous Ray” of sun “op’d those Eyes that must eclipse the Day,” beginning his characterization of Belinda. As part of the classical tradition Pope had to make clear the purpose of the sylphs, writing, Clearly Belinda will not be one of those. The sylphs, who include one specifi cally identifi ed as Betty, attend Belinda at her toilette, which Pope imbues with mock importance. An increase in Belinda’s charm and a calling forth of “all the Wonders of her Face are the results.” Pope continues using hyperbole to capture the heroic tone designed to convince readers of the humor in such social situations. The call to arms results in a swarming of mystical beings, all intent on preserving Belinda’s honor: The next lines establish Belinda’s foe in the ensuing battle as a Baron, to whom “Fate inclines the Field,” following two triumphs by Belinda. When Belinda wins the hand, the speaker cries: The Sprights gather by the thousands in a vain attempt to protect Belinda’s curl, managing to twitch her diamond earrings and cause her to turn her head three times.One fantastical being, a gnome called Umbriel, approaches a goddess, petitioning her for a solution to Belinda’s problem. Pope turns to satiric regarding the muses, who inspire mortals to various achievements. Pope introduces the fop character of Sir Plume, based on the real-life Sir George Brown, whom Belinda bids wage war on her part. His attempts fail, and she suffers the hysterical effects of Umbriel’s vial from which sorrows flow. She curses her day of infamy and wonders aloud why she ever attended the party. Pope adopts the common carpe diem imagery of cavalier poets, who argued with virgins they should not hide their roselike beauty, as it would simply die unappreciated. She wails in comic form over the loss of one of her two sable “Beauties,” its “Sister-Lock” left to sit alone on her neck, perhaps to tempt another rape. The canto concludes with her cry to the perpetrator of the crime, “Oh hadst thou, Cruel.Discussion ensues over the fate of the lock itself, and she reveals that some believe it took its place in heaven, where “Partridge soon shall view” it as a portent of “the fall of Rome” when he “looks thro’ Galileo’s eyes.” Pope references a known prognosticator named John Partridge. Partridge annually predicted the pope’s downfall, as well as the fall of the king of France, by reading the heavens through his telescope; he was a publicly acknowledged foolish figure.He also made clear the power of poetry to teach, as well as delight. His work translating Homer’s Iliad, a six-year project begun in 1713, would inform the mock version of the heroic story that would eventually gain him financial independence. The Rape of the Lock remains a crucial part of Pope’s early career, its perfectly controlled execution and jubilant tone reflecting the cautiously happy security he would not long enjoy. It continues to inspire much critical examination. When feminist criticism gained importance in the 20th century, this new critical approach considered the poem’s misogyny in its depiction of women. Mental life is envisaged as a near-arbitrary play of forces; the Sylphs contrive to balance out desires so that no one male seems more attractive than another: Unnumber’d treasures ope at once, and here The various off’rings of the world appear; From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And decks the goddess with the glitt’ring spoil. This casket India’s glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform’d to combs, the speckled and the white. Pope gives us the locks of hair as small but commanding engines of sexual power: The boat arrives at Hampton Court, one of Queen Anne’s palaces and thus a site of political importance as well as social intercourse. The pack of cards is transformed into a miniature version of the European war which had just come to an end: Spadillio first, unconquerable Lord. Led off two captive Trumps, and swept the Board.