Justify Pope’s the Rape of Lock as a social satire
The word ‘satire’ is derived from the Latin word ‘satira’ which is a literary attack on the follies and vices of an individual or a society with a view to correcting them through laughter and ridicule written either in prose or verse. As Shakespeare is the poet of man, Alexander Pope is a poet of society. The Rape of the Lock is a social document because it mirrors satire, too. Pope paints about England in the 18 th century. The whole panorama of the Rape the Lock revolves around the false standard of the 18 th century. Pope satirizes the young boys, girls, aristocratic women and men, their free time, activities, nature of husbands and wives, the professionals. Pope clearly depicts the absurdities and the frivolities of the fashionable circle of 18 th century England. The world of Belinda is a world of fashion or a trivial world. The whole life of Belinda is confined to sleeping, make- up, enjoyment and alluring the affection, malice, coq...