ENGL 2100 Lecture 9: The Rape of the Lock
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The rape of the lock: satire in failure. Mocking issues in society that should be of serious concern is a timeless defense mechanism of historic authors and modern journalists. His method of mocking issues that should be taken to heart as an alarming societal folly can be strongly connected to modern political satires. Pope"s goal in his poetry is to expose the pettiness and shallow views that have consumed his society in comparison to the traditionally expected grandeur of epic poetry. The form of this mock-epic during his time period is equivalent to our modern day political satire (ex: saturday night live, colbert, or. Aside from pope"s form of poetry being timeless, the necessity to have literature like this is as well. During times of crisis or societal down fall, mocking the situation is often one of the only ways several members of said society to bare what is occurring outside of their control is to laugh.