... are often there for effect; the blushing of Belinda, the men-the baron especially-do not take on the gentleman attitude; cutting hair to romantically seduce. Thus pope's mock epic resembles a true epic in that central themes are serious and often moral, but the fact that approach must now be satirical opposed to earnest, which shows how far culture ... 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 female society. Pope'...

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