Your competitors one of many young lords to the attention of beautiful ladies is represented by activities from the Baron, bewitched through the glamorous charm of Belinda. But Belinda would not pay any concentration to him consequently he became discontented to her and desired to cut off her enthralling lock of hair.

1. the social picture of the
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), just about the most quotable poet and satirist from the English
Augustan period, stabs gentle fun with the 1700s aristocrats who, like Belinda, spend much time
on appearances from the poem The Rape with the Lock, Pope's brilliant satiric masterpiece. Now
allow us to have a very glance at the society as observed in the poem.
Pope was inspired to write the poem having an incident among his acquaintances in which
Robert, Lord Petre, cut off a lock of Arabella Fermor's hair, and a feud developed between two
young people's families as a result. Then Pope's friend John Caryll motivated him to write down
the light poem to cool down the hot tempers and reconcile the 2 families or even encourage his
friends to laugh in their own folly.
Actually Pope's mock-epic just isn't to mock the proper execution itself, but to mock the vanities,
the idleness and the ridiculousness of 18th-century high society by which values have lost all
proportion, along with the trivial is handled together with the gravity. The society on display on this
poem is a that does not separate items that matter and stuff that tend not to.
Since the poet says:
"...Stain her honour, or her new brocade;
Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade;"
Pope draws the portrait of fashionable ladies with the society indirectly, over the character of
Belinda. In the beginning in the poem we become informed with the idleness, pomp and foppery
of what are named as fashionable ladies, including getting out of bed late, keeping hounds.
Because poet comments:
Now Lapdogs give the rowzing Shake,
And sleepless Lovers, just at Twelve, awake:
Pope's portrayal of Belinda at her dressing table stands for the exaggeration in the women within
their ornamentation. Women dedicated most of their time in toilette. They used different
ornaments and absorbing things like, rouge, puff, and powder for their beautification.
As poet remarks:
"And now, unveil'd, the Toilet stands display'd,
Each Silver Vase in mystic Order laid.
First, rob'd in White, the Nymph intent adores
With Head uncover'd, the cosmetic Pow'rs."

2. The girls were mostly keen on their very own beauty and felt much exited browsing see it here .
Often it seemed that they can adore their very own image appeared within the glass since the
Goddess they serve. As poet satirically comments on Belinda investigating mirror:
"A heav'nly Image within the Glass appears,"
Only then do we find another usual trend in the beautiful ladies of these time. They loved to be
admired but to none of admirers they showed sign of yielding; they simply smiled at them in
thankfulness. They often times needed to reject offers, nonetheless they never caused harm to
anyone.
As the poet says about Belinda:
"Favours to none, to all or any she Smiles extends,
Oft she rejects, but never once offends."
The poem includes a reference to the latest fashions in clothing and decoration of the society as
an example lacquer tables, china collection, lap dog from Ireland, diamond stud earrings etc and
drinks with the rich such as citron-water, chocolate, tea, coffee.
Even as we discover in the poem:
Like Citron-Waters Matron's Cheeks inflame,
Or change Complexions in a losing Game;
Ideas locate a strong analogy between Belinda and Madame Eglantine, the nun in Prologue
towards the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. She was very coy and stylish lady like
Belinda and used costly dress with gold brooch but as a Nun she really should have been quite
simple in her behaviour. We can compare Belinda together with the baby Eve, as observed in part
IV, line 46, of Paradise Lost by John Milton, while Eve admires herself as mirrored in the
swimming pool my company, in cases like this, can also recall the Lilliputian Queen, an
unnecessarily fashionable lady having a small appearance, as noticed in Gulliver's Travel by
Jonathan Swift.
Your competition one of many young lords for that attention of lovely ladies is represented by
activities of the Baron, bewitched from the glamorous charm of Belinda. But Belinda failed to pay
any concentration to him consequently he became discontented to her and wished to take off her
enthralling lock of hair.
Because the poet says:
"Th' Adventrous Baron the brilliant Locks admir'd,
He saw, he wish'd, also to the Prize aspir'd:
Resolv'd to win, he meditates just how,
By Force to ravish, or by Fraud betray;"
For the start of canto iii we have an outstanding account in the society in description of Hampton
court, a place where Britain's statesmen often assembled to calculate the overthrow of foreign

3. despotic kings in addition to the beautify ladies of England.
"...Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom
Of foreign tyrants, in addition to nymphs in your house;"
At Hampton court Anne, who ruled over three realms, held her council possibly at times simply for
tea party.
Even as we see in the poem:
"Here Thou, great Anna! whom three Realms obey,
Dost sometimes Counsel take-and sometimes Tea."
The Sylphs become an allegory to the mannered conventions that govern female social behavior.
Principles like honour and chastity have become a maximum of another part of conventional
dealings. Pope can make it clear that these women are certainly not conducting themselves on
the foundation of abstract moral principles, but you are controlled by a more elaborate social
mechanism--of that the Sylphs cut a fitting caricature. The society in general is really as much at
fault as she actually is.