This presentation-2 is of sem-1. I present on Character of Belinda.

1. Character of Belinda
By Nirali Dabhi

2. Name: Nirali Dabhi
Roll number: 17
Enrollment Number: 4069206420220006
Sem: 1 M.A
Paper number: 101
Paper Name: Literature of the Neo-Classical Period
Topic: Character of Belinda
Submitted to: Smt S.B. Gardi, Department of English,
M.K.B.U
Email: niralidabhi95@gmail.com
Introduction

3. Table of contents
Alexander’s
Rape of the Lock
Heroine of the
Poem
Beauty of Belinda
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03
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4. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
★ The acknowledged master of the heroic couplet.
★ primary tastemakers of the Augustan age.
★ British writer Alexander Pope was a central figure
in the Neoclassical movement of the early 18th
century.
★ He is known for having perfected the rhymed
couplet form of his idol.
★ His mock epic The Rape of the Lock (1714) derides
elite society.(Pope)

5. ★ Alexander Pope wrote his five-canto poem The Rape of
the Lock.(Rao)
★ Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a satirical
and often demeaning look at the roles of women in
17th century English society.
★ Pope writes an epigraph, directed to the lady
involved, Ms. Arabella Fermor, which suggests that
the poem was published at her request, although in
actuality the writing of this poem was suggested to
Pope by one of his male friends.
★ From the story, one may gather that the aristocracy at
this time lived a rather frivolous life. Women spent
much of their day preparing themselves for social
functions.(Westfall)
Alexander’s Rape of the Lock

6. ★ Miss. Arabella Fermor
★ The remaining weapons in
Belinda’s arsenal are her eyes.
This seems natural enough, but
Belinda still relies on cosmetic
powers to win back her lock.
★ Umbriel the Gnome wants Spleen to
“touch Belinda with chagrin” after
the Baron has cut the lock, so she
will become destitute with
melancholy
Heroine of the Poem

7. ★ When Belinda gets ready for her day, she is
personified as “awful Beauty put on all its
arms” and she “calls forth all the wonders of
her face” like a general summoning troops to
battle.(Rao)
★ Belinda has a sweet charming beauty, she
suffers from an intense spiritual shallowness
and incapacity for moral awareness.
Beauty

9. ★ Pope, Alexander. “Alexander Pope.” Poetry Foundation,
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alexander-pope. Accessed 16 October 2022.
★ Rao, Sarika. “Belinda's Weapons of Femininity in Pope's The Rape of the Lock |
Magnificat.” Marymount Commons, 2010,
https://commons.marymount.edu/magnificat/belindas-weapons-of-femininity-in-
popes-the-rape-of-the-lock/. Accessed 16 October 2022.
Work Cited

10. Work Cited
★ Salma, Umme. “Women and Empire in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock:
A rereading.” 2011,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342170659_Women_and_Empire_i
n_Alexander_Pope's_The_Rape_of_the_Lock_A_rereading. Accessed 16
October 2022.
★ Westfall, Cassandra. “The Negative Images of Wome in Pope's "The Rape of
the Lock."” The Negative Images of Women in Pope's "The Rape of the Lock",
printable, 14 April 1998,
https://departments.knox.edu/engdept/commonroom/volume_two/number_t
wo/cwestfall/print.html. Accessed 13 October 2022

11. Thank You