This document provides a character analysis of Clarissa from Alexander Pope's poem "The Rape of the Lock". It first provides background on Pope and discusses that the poem is a mock heroic epic written in five cantos. It then analyzes Clarissa, who is a lady at the court who aids in cutting a lock of hair from Belinda. Her significance is that she is the poem's only character depicted as having a brain. The document concludes by summarizing that Clarissa's speech in the poem addresses how society often defines women based on their beauty and as goddesses or angels.

1. Character Analysis of
‘Clarissa’
'Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.'

2. Academic Details
Name : Rinkal Dangar
Roll no : 18
Enrollment no : 4069206420220007
Paper name :Literature of the Neoclassical Period
Paper no : 102
Paper code:22393
Topic: Character Analysis of ‘Clarissa’
Submitted to : Smt. S.B.Gardi, department of English M.K.B.U
Dated on : 16/10/2022
E-Mail : dangarrinkal0609@gmail.com

3. Alexander Pope
● Alexander Pope was an
English poet, translator,
and satirist of the
Enlightenment era who is
considered one of the most
prominent English poets of
the early 18th century.
● An exponent of Augustan
literature, Pope is best
known for his satirical and
discursive poetry including
The Rape of the Lock, The
Dunciad, and An Essay on
Criticism, and for his
translations of Homer.

4. ‘The Rape of the Lock’
● The Rape of the Lock is
a mock heroic epic poem
by Alexander POpe.
● Written in Five Cantos.
● Clarissa’s Speech is
most Influential in
‘The Rape of the Lock’.

5. Who was ‘Clarissa’?
● A lady at the Court, who
lands the Barran her
scissors to drop off
Belinda’s lock of Hair.
● Significance of the name:
‘Clarissa’
● Poem’s only Character with
Brain.

6. Clarissa’s Speech
Society always addresses
women by they beauty.
Idea of Goddess and Angel

7. Work Cited
TRIMBLE, JOHN. “Clarissa’s Role in The Rape of the Lock.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 15, no. 4, 1974, pp. 673–
91. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40754289. Accessed 19 Dec. 2023.

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