Rape of the lock by Alexander Pope where he described real incident. He painted the fashionable ladies. Self obssession ladies of Pope's time. Antifeminist misagony concept here we can see.
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Rape of the lock
1. The rape of the lock
With social and feminist perspective
Presented by:
Emisha Ravani M
2. Paper: 102 - The literature of the Neo
classical period
Roll no. 10
MKBU, Department of English
3. Points to ponder
● A social satire
● Aristocracy
● Women's condition
● Virtue vs reputation (good name)
● Antifeminist misogyny
● Self obsessive ladies
4. The poem rape of the
lock is by Alexander
Pope, wrote upon real
incidence. Where he
satiring on that time of
society. It was the time
when women were
having excessive
attention more than
men.
5. Aristocracy
the highest class in certain societies, typically
comprising people of noble birth holding
hereditary titles and offices.
- Oxford
6. Women's condition
● Alexander Pope successfully portrayed common
fashionable ladies of his time.
● They used to get married to the peers and dukes,
people who are high officials.
8. Antifeminist misogyny
● Here files of pins extend their shining rows,
Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
● 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.
Belinda is a typical presentation of women’s excessive attention to self-decoration and
embellishment.
9. Self obsessive ladies
● The eighteenth century’s ladies, they
were having self obsessions . In a way
they only desire to fulfill own wishes for
self satisfaction.
10. References:
The rape of the lock by Alexander Pope
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44906/the
-rape-of-the-lock-canto-1
The rape of the lock as a social satire
https://www.englishliterature.info/2019/02/discuss-
rape-of-lock-as-social-satire.html
