Women In Alexander Pope's The Rape Of The Lock

Throughout the years women have struggled with discrimination against what they can and cannot do and how they can do or not do something. Women are looked at as being pretty and being housewives. Many people today follow the same sexest guidelines are in the past old years. These types of women are supposed to obey their husbands all the time and they were not allowed to work. Alexander Pope, the author of The Rape of the Lock, writes this poem of a woman, Belinda, who he criticizes upon his heroic-comical ways. Throughout this epic poem Pope judges this young lady, Belinda, for her looks, her thoughts, and her beliefs. Pope creates an image of what he believes is true about women through the way Belinda dresses, how she acts, and how she thinks. He uses irony to mock this woman and to assure that his thoughts are not only about Belinda herself but in all the women in general. Alexander Pope treats women as disorganized, hypocritical, all about beauty, and unintelligent and unfocused in his mock-epic poem, The Rape of the Lock. In the first place, Pope believes that women are disorganized and assumes that women do not know what they want or what they are thinking about. Before Belinda goes off to the party

Pope treats women as disorganized, hypocritical, all about beauty, and unintelligent and unfocused in his mock-epic poem, The Rape of the Lock. He tries to use Belinda as a representative for all the women, Women have defects just as men have them too, but are they based on one human being. The way one looks at someone gives people the benefit of creating an image of them. The truth is that one does not know about someone until they get the sufficient time to actually know them inside and out. People sometimes show something or appear some way, when it is completely the total opposite. Pope’s beliefs about women are his opinions, just like each person has their