Belinda has had a dream in which her guardian has told her that a disaster is coming but he says to her that hewill protect her with all his power and ability. When she wakes up, she prepares for her social activities of the day. She travels to Hampton court palace by crossing river Thames in order to throw a party. Everybody is playing cards and drinking coffee. In that place is where the baron is waiting for Belinda. He is deeply in love with her and with Clarissa's help, he steals a lock of her hair. Belinda gets really angry and looks for justice.
The reason of Alexander Pope to write this poem was to write a story about another real story about two people who belong to two aristocrat families. Arabella is the girl and Lord Petre is the boy. Lord Petre is in love with Arabella and he steals a lock of her hair making a big conflict between the two families.
This story reminds me a bit of Romeo and Juliet but in an opposite way because in Shakespeare's play the two families are set as odds and Romeo and Juliet by their death make that war between both families stop, meanwhile in the story of the rape of the lock, the two families are friends and they split up because of the baron and Belinda (Arabella and Lord Petre)
According to the discussion in class about Oroonoco from Aphra Benn I have been thinking about europeans and slaves, indians and africans and I have remembered a disney film: Pocahontas. M y question is, if the Lion King is a film based in the Shakespeare's play Hamlet, could Pocahontas be based on the arrival of english people to America in the restoration era? Well, I have been looking for some information about the tale of Pocahontas and I have found that this story is based in the XVII century.
Everything starts in 1607. James I is the king of England. English people travel to America to colonize the indians. The indian tribe headed by Pocahontas' father kidnap John Smith. When they are going to execute him, Pocahontas jumps over him to save his life. This is the way in which indians and europeans start a kind of friendship, but this friendship ends soon because the english people are extending over the country and indians feel threatened. Smith and some people returns to England and Pocahontas get married with a man called John Rolfe. He has got a tobacco field in Virginia. As many colonizers has left America, this man try to demonstrate that indians can be educated like he has done with Pocahontas.
Hello everyone,
This is my first post on my new blog. At first I thought to call it All for love because of John's Dryden's play but finally I have called it the way of the world because of William congreve's one. I think this tragedy explains in many different ways how they lived in that period. He explains the society of London ( remember that in the restoration many people move to the cities and London becomes an important place), the characters are more realistic and women take an important place in society.
According to the discussion in class about Oroonoco from Aphra Benn I have been thinking about europeans and slaves, indians and africans and I have remembered a disney film: Pocahontas. M y question is, if the Lion King is a film based in the Shakespeare's play Hamlet, could Pocahontas be based on the arrival of english people to America in the restoration era? Well, I have been looking for some information about the tale of Pocahontas and I have found that this story is based in the XVII century.
Smith and some people returns to England and Pocahontas get married with a man called John Rolfe. He has got a tobacco field in Virginia. As many colonizers has left America, this man try to demonstrate that indians can be educated like he has done with Pocahontas.