Belinda's Character 403j69

The age in which Pope flourished is called the Augustan or Classical age as well as the Age of Pope, because he became its chief poet and man of letters. “The Rape of the Lock” is a poem in which Alexander Pope shows himself emphatically as the spokesman of his age. This poem pictures the artificial tone of the age and the frivolous aspect of femininity. We see in this poem the elegance and the emptiness, the meanness and vanity, the jealousies of the eighteenth century. Non-Seriousness: The average life of a society woman was to dress, to visit clubs and coffee-houses where young gallants punctually assembled to please and to flirt. Women devoted much of their time to toilet herself. Dress, puff, powder and ornaments were their vanities. Their manners and behaviour were artificial. Belinda represents the typical fashionable ladies of the time. What is her life and how does she spend her day? There is not the slightest glimpse of seriousness or sincerity, goddess or grandeur of human life in any of her words and actions. Belinda is a beautiful lady; she ahs a host of irers; she is flirt. “Favours to none, t all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends,” Though these beautiful ladies apparently seemed to reject their suitors, they secretly harboured ambition to get married to lords and dukes or men holding some high titles. And dreaming of their rich prospect women like Belinda sleep late at night and are used to rising late from their bed.