Known for her beauty, she was the belle of the London society in the early 18th century. It was with this view that I wrote the Rape of the Lock.” (1).īorn into the upper-class, Arabella Fermor was the daughter of Henry Fermor. A common acquaintance and well-wisher to both, desired me to write a poem to make a jest of it, and laugh them together again. “The stealing of Miss Belle Fermor’s hair, was taken too seriously, and caused an estrangement between the two families, though they had lived so long in great friendship before. In order to make light of the situation, Pope wrote The Rape of the Lock. Ever since the incident, the families had been feuding. Caryll explained that his friend, Lord Petre, had cut off a lock of Arabella Fermor’s hair. Pope wrote The Rape of the Lock in response to a request made my his friend John Caryll, a prominent Roman Catholic of the time. The poem follows the events of the night, leading up to Belinda’s “horrific” loss.
In the Rape of the Lock, Pope uses Belinda and the Baron to mock two of his acquaintances, Arabella Fermor, and Lord Petre. Although trivial to most, Belinda is outraged that her lock of hair has been cut by the Baron. The poem is a mock-epic that satirizes the upper-class in London at the time.The story focuses on the central character, Belinda, whose lock of hair is cut off at a social gathering. The Rape of the Lock was written by Alexander Pope and first published in 1712, then reworked and published again in 1714.
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