Title: Rape of the Lock

Subject:

Date: 4,4,24

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• Main Ideas
• Key words
• Questions that connect points
• Important points

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Main lecture notes

• Mock Heroic Narrative Poem
• Satire
• Teach moralities aspired by the poet
• Elaborate language
• Mock hero should not be long but this one is longer.
• Light hearted
• Lose a heart
• Zeugma bringing two nouns using different meanings: Lose her heart and necklace
• Criticism of upper classes and especially the Queen
• Ariel sylph
• Her dog Shock licks her and she wake up
• Drinking tea playing games
• Ombre Card Game
• Clarissa’s last speech is important
• Clarissa give scissor to the Baron and baron cut Belinda’s hair
• Umbriel the gnome - Queen of Spleens give a flask
• War of
• Why Pope wrote it
• Juxtaposition
• Mock heroic characteristic starts with a vouch for a Muse. and her name is Caryll
• Virgil’s Eclogues- Georgies
• IV Georgie-
• Slightest subject matters greatest serious manners
• Do we have a parody of an epic form
• No there is no mocking the classical forms
• 18th century- affectations and characteristics
• Salamander
• The creatures associated as women mischiveous..
• shrew cadaloz
• Nymphs are easy going
• Gnome’s produce women under grief?
• Sylph : coquette: gösteripte vermeyen
• A coquette is a flirt, a girl or woman who knows how to flatter and manipulate men with her charms in order to get what she wants
• Belinda is a coquette
• Ariel is giving an advice beware of man foreshadowing of the future.
• Ironic: being a coquette is not being pious
• mystic order laid
• heavenly image
• inferior priestess
• Belinda’s preperation is a gorgeous imagery
• air creatures as servants
• Humans disposition as creatures
• Pope associated Gnomes Sylphs by his imagery
• Perfect juxtaposition of trivial with a grand style- mock image
• She prepare as if she is going to a war.
• Achilleus’ preperation*
• Creating an altar on a make-up table
• Rites of Pride but Putting on make up
• Baron builds an alter and brings the former lovers trophies’. This love is presented as religious matter.
• Half his prayers accepted.
• Criticism of Restoration Comedy of Manners
• Cuckolding, putting side by side middle and upper classes, etc.
• At ombre singly to decide their doom
• Conquest like a game
• Description of a war scene
• Juxtaposition Mock epic*
• -125-
• Cutting hair winning prize
• Two edge weapon - scissors
• She is in love even though she is a coquette
• Baron’s speech of victory
• As if he won an honourable award by cutting the lock of the hair
• Cave of Spleen* Umbriel visits.
• Cave of Spleen resembles Underworld. Parody of it
• Her hand is filled her bosom with lampoons
• Hail wayward Queen*
• Evil character
• Parent of vapors and of female wit
• She provides women wit
• Alexander Pope does not support women writers. Misogynist
• Canto 5- Lines 9 to 35*
• Women should not be worried about only the lose of hair
• Phsical beauty should be accompanied with knowledge*
• Hypocrisy
• She gave the scissors however she tells that don’t need to exaggarate the lose of hair
• Grand vs Trivial
• What if lose of virginity? She got raped because of her coquette atitude.

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