... views the absurdity of this aim and, in turn, the shallowness of the world. Yet I feel Pope recognises that the women are not conducting on the basis of abstract moral principles but are governed by the elaborate social mechanisms, such an elevated thinking would have been a result of his part exclusion from this world. He is further allowed critique of the situation ... the beginning of Canto two the language reflects a theme of entrapping-"detains, insnare, prey and slaves"-it is clear that the "fashionable absurdities" were not just restricted to the elite few but the whole of the fe...

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