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
Cite This	Unveiling Beauty: Belinda's Quest for Youth in Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" - PRASHAMI PANDEY - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 5, September-October 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i05.27532
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i05.27532
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gzwpxs

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