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    Belinda is portrayed as the representative of fashionable ladies in 18th century England. She is idle, sleeping late and interested in pets, fashion, and marrying wealthy men. Belinda is depicted as vain, focusing excessively on her appearance through cosmetics and fashion. She is superficial in her religious beliefs, more devoted to beauty than faith. Pope uses Belinda to mock and satirize the manners and values of aristocratic women during Queen Anne's time.

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    Belinda is portrayed as the representative of fashionable ladies in 18th century England. She is idle, sleeping late and interested in pets, fashion, and marrying wealthy men. Belinda is depicted as vain, focusing excessively on her appearance through cosmetics and fashion. She is superficial in her religious beliefs, more devoted to beauty than faith. Pope uses Belinda to mock and satirize the manners and values of aristocratic women during Queen Anne's time.

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    Sketch the Character of Belinda

    Character of Belinda

    Alexander Pope has designed The Rape of the Lock as the


    representative works depicting Belinda as the model of the
    common fashionable ladies of his time. Belinda is the chief
    attraction and she becomes the heroine of it. She is the only
    leading character. Yet her screams and the flashes of
    lightening from her eyes are compared to those of an epic
    hero.
    There are several aspects of the personality of Belinda as
    portrayed by Pope in The Rape of the Lock. At the very outset
    of the poem, we see her as an idle and late-rising aristocratic
    lady who possesses keen interest in domestic pets. Her
    idleness is established when we see her sleeping unto twelve.
    Besides, they felt interested in the love letters of their so-called
    beloved. When Belinda at last got up from bed after having
    been licked by Shock, her eyes first opened on a love-letter.
    Therefore, she is full of vanities and loves gilded chariots and
    ombre. At the same time, she is ambitious to get married to
    peers and dukes or to other high officials. This is why she
    frequently visits the Hampton Court in the river Thames. She
    passes an aristocratic life and mixes with the Barons
    recklessly.
    Moreover, Belinda is the embodiment of the coquetry, the art,
    the artifice and the false pride. However, Ariel acquaints us
    with her flirtatious nature when exhorting his fellow spirits to
    remain vigilant. Ariel discovers surprisingly that in spite of all
    her pretence, she is amorously inclined towards a gallant.  
    Then, we get the picture of her shallow outlook about religious
    faiths and beliefs. She is a worshiper of beauty who prays to
    the goddess of beauty and offers all the items of cosmetics
    before her. She is a typical presentation of women’s excessive
    attention to self decoration and embellishment. She gathers all
    the fashionable items from all over the world-Indian glowing
    gems, Arabian perfumes, files of pins, puffs, powders, patches
    etc. In a satirical passage, Pope describes Belinda in a
    Confucius mood before her dressing table.
    Here files of pains extend their shining rows,
    Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
    Thus, assigned by her maid Betty, Belinda seeks to improve her
    bodily charms. However, she does not show any respect for
    the holly book, Bible.
    Therefore, the moral bankruptcy of these ladies is further
    ridiculed when Thalestris points out the need for sacrificing
    everything, even chastity, for reputation. They consider that
    virtue might be lost, but not a good name.
    To wind up we can say that The Rape of the Lock is a mockery
    of the manners of the tea-cup times of Queen Anne. Here, Pope
    seeks to throw light upon the fickle minded fashionable ladies
    of the 18th century England depicting Belinda as the
    representative character.

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