... opposed to earnest, which shows how far culture has fallen. These "fashionable absurdities" to which Mack refers are shown through their "joy in glided chariots", where Pope's satirical style highlights an obsession with pomp and consequential superficiality. Their "Love of Ombre", suggests their frivolity. It was said that Pope was "ahead of his time" and the manner in which he almost pities the existence of the women, whom ... way. Within the beginning of Canto two the language reflects a theme of entrapping-"detains, insnare, prey and slaves"-it is clear that the "fashionable absurdi...

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