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For what purposes does Pope include the machinery and say how far you think they influence character and events. Pope’s protagonist is protected and guided by tiny fragile sylphs, who are portrayed throughout the poem
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For what purposes does Pope include the machinery and say how far you think they influence character and events. Pope's protagonist is protected and guided by tiny fragile sylphs, who are portrayed throughout the poem as powerless creatures. Instantly we recognise the poem as a mock epic by the use of such delicate machinery who are supposed to take the role of the gods presented in epic texts, protecting and guiding the hero or in this case the heroine. The sylphs' incapacity to seize or gain power demonstrates their inability to protect Belinda's honour; nevertheless, we notice the importance of the sylphs as they demonstrate a major role in Belinda's life. It is also significant that Pope did not include the sylphs in his original text of rape of the lock, but in fact the sylphs were only introduced in his second making of his poem; evidently, Pope acknowledge the need...
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