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The Rape of the Lock. By: Anna Ward & Luis Mandujano. Brief Intro to the story. There is a dudette and a dude. The dude wants part of the hair from the dudette and cuts part of it…uh oh… . The dudette gets ENRAGED!!! and starts harming the dude. The End !.
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The Rape of the Lock By: Anna Ward & Luis Mandujano
Brief Intro to the story • There is a dudette and a dude. The dude wants part of the hair from the dudette and cuts part of it…uh oh…
The dudette gets ENRAGED!!! and starts harming the dude. The End! Imagine that that is the dudette. She basically did that, but then attacked the dude.
Summarize The basic criticism is the values of society at the time. An example is as in what their hair looked like just as Belinda cared for her hair, and the Baron wished to keep it as a prize. In Canto III Lines 161-178, it is shown that the Baron is filled with joy as he has just cut a piece of hair from Belinda. He contemplates on how big his victory is. Even while others go about their business, his name will last forever due to his feat. This shows that the value of some of the high class people just cared about looks.
Identify • Pope’s audience was people who valued things that are not as important as they try to make them just as Belinda tried to make her hair being cut seem more important than it really was. Pope was trying to show that people should not value things that are not worth valuing. Hair, when compared to the collective, is not as valuable – especially when you are on a boat in the middle of the river! • This story was based on an actual event between two families, the Petres and the Fermers. A man from the Petres family cut a lock of hair from the head of a Fermer woman. • Canto V Lines 39-68 show that Belinda knocks the Baron over and stuffs his nostrils with sniff. She then draws a spear as to threaten him for his treasonous acts.
Compare & Contrast • Chaucer’s society was very religious in the 1300’s and he shows this through many of his characters such as the pardoner, the monk and the knight just to name a few. • Popes society more often valued material things and this is show through Belinda and the care she had for her hair. • Today’s society is a mixture of both Chaucer and Pope’s because there are all kinds of people that have mixed together since this writing was written.
Evaluate • Canto V Lines 39-68 show that Belinda harms the Baron because of his treachery. She then demands with a loud voice to have him giver her back the hair that was cut. • These lines show that just for a small act of harm done to a person, the affected person sees that small amount of harm as justification for giving a great deal of harm to his or her offender. This shows that the British society during that time was worse than the society depicted by Chaucer.
