International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research

E-ISSN: 2582-2160     Impact Factor: 9.24

A Widely Indexed Open Access Peer Reviewed Multidisciplinary Bi-monthly Scholarly International Journal

Call for Paper Volume 7, Issue 2 (March-April 2025) Submit your research before last 3 days of April to publish your research paper in the issue of March-April.

Unveiling Beauty: Belinda's Quest for Youth in Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"

Author(s) PRASHAMI PANDEY
Country India
Abstract Alexander Pope's mock-epic The Rape of the Lock illuminates the complexity of youth, beauty, and society in early 18th-century England. This paper examines Pope's sympathetic portrayal of Belinda, who represents society's idealised youthful beauty and its anxieties about its loss, to demonstrate his poetic aim to critically analyse and understand the dangers of attachment to surface appearances resulting from society's obsession with youth and beauty.
Keywords Rape of the lock, Belinda, Beauty, Youth
Published In Volume 6, Issue 5, September-October 2024
Published On 2024-09-15
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i05.27532
Short DOI https://doi.org/gzwpxs

Share this