![]() ![]() Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal is a satirical narrative suggesting ways that impoverished Irish could solve their economic problems by selling their babies to the rich to be used as food. Belinda, the protagonist, has two locks of hair and one of her suitors, Baron, is determined to steal one (Pope), and this incident shapes the entire plotline of the satire. ![]() ![]() The poem borrows much from Greek mythology whereby the theft of a lock of hair mirrors the abduction of Helen of Troy or Sparta. SummaryĪlexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a satirical poem on a small incident in an attempt to merge social happenings with heroic tales of gods and goddesses. This paper compares two enlightenment satires – Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock and Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal. Writers sought to satirically highlight the many societal shortcomings by ridiculing the generally accepted standards of thought to expose hypocrisy. During this period, humor, and reason pervaded literature in different ways, especially in the form of Juvenalian and Horatian satires to debunk the moral corruption and perfunctory follies that characterized British society during the neoclassical era. Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock and Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal are witty satirical works written in the 18th-century-Britain to highlight various issues that were affecting society at the time. ![]()
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