"The Rape of the lock"

Hello viewers !
  
  I am Maya Batiya ,A student of M.A. sem 1 , Department of English in MKBU.
 
  Assigned  by  vaidehi ma'am.

 

Q.1)  According to you, who is the protogonist of the poem Clarissa or Belinda ? Why? Give your answer with logically reasons.

Ans : 
         The protagonist of the poem, Belinda is a wealthy and beautiful young woman who travels to Hampton Court for a day of socializing and leisure. Her remarkable beauty attracts the attention of the Baron, who snips off a lock of her hair in his infatuation.

    Pope's portrait of Belinda is also animated with a truly comic spirit. In Belinda, he found the charm that a fair and fashionable woman brings to society; together with all her pride and vanity. Her bright appearance contrasts sharply with her fickle nature. 


Q.2) what is beauty ? Write your views about it.

Ans :
         The entirety of this poem is meant to satirize society's obsession with physical beauty and trivial matters. This is mentioned in the poem most straightforwardly by Clarissa in her speech about how beauty may fade but good humor is more important.
         

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

Ans :
        The Rape of the Lock was written by Alexander Pope and first published in 1712, then reworked and published again in 1714. The poem is a mock-epic that satirizes the upper-class in London at the time. The story focuses on the central character, Belinda, whose lock of hair is cut off at a social gathering.
         

Q.4) Write your views about the significance of hair. Is it symbolic?

Ans :
         Belinda's lock of hair comes to symbolize the absurdity of the importance afforded to female beauty in society. Pope offers a hyperbolically metaphorical description of the two locks in Canto II, humorously framing the locks as alluring enough to virtually incapacitate any man who looks at them.
        
   Based on the historical Lord Petre, the Baron snips of Belinda's lock on account of his infatuation with her remarkable beauty and refuses to give it back.


∆ conclusion :
             
    The poem concludes with the poet himself claiming the overall victory, as he has written this beautiful poem commemorating the loss of the lock—and his own poetry chops—for all eternity. Poetry and Alexander Pope, rather than vanity and petty quarrelling, win in the end.




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