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A 5 page essay in which the writer argues that in Pope's The Rape of the Lock and in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, each author demonstrates how pride, particularly excessive pride, alters perception so that individuals start down a path that can lead, ultimately, to evil. The main points of each work are summarized to substantiate this thesis. No additional sources cited.
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places emphasis on the wrong qualities and the wrong values. While drama has frequently addressed this theme, another form of literature - satire -- has probably been more effective in
actually altering human behavior because no one wants to look foolish. Seventeenth century contemporaries Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift each employed satire to mock the pretensions of their era.
In Popes The Rape of the Lock and in Swifts Gullivers Travels, each author demonstrates how pride, particularly excessive pride, alters perception so that individuals start down a path that
can lead, ultimately, to evil. While these two works bear this characteristic in common, they are also quite different as the two authors focus on very different demographic groups. Popes
mock epic poem satirizes women and the extraordinary value that women place on beauty rituals, their hair and general appearance. In this poem, the heroine, Belinda, is greatly wronged when
the evil baron cuts off a lock of her beautiful hair. Throughout the poem, Pope mocks the pretensions and values of women by speaking of their beauty, and the maintenance
of their beauty, in overly-flowery, highly fanciful language. For example, after opening the poem with an invocation to his Muse, John Caryll, Pope begins his story by describing the details
of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and the details of her "toilette" as if he were
describing a goddess or a priestess preparing holy rituals. Finally, Belinda is ready to face the day and society. In the next Canto, Pope describes the twinned locks of
hair that hang down Belindas back. They are pictured as if they were traps intended to ensnare a man - "two Locks, which graceful hung behind / In equal Curls,
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