This week in class when we split into groups we discussed aspects of The Rape of the Lock. In my group there were lots of ideas thrown out there and there was one that kind of got over looked or we didn’t get a whole lot of response or something and I’m just curious what everyone thought about it.
In these cantos, Belinda starts off depicted as a girl who is loved by all, sweet spirited, quiet disposition – truly a beautiful person inside and out. When this crime of cutting off a lock of hair is committed against her, at first, she continues with this air of being loved and loving. As time goes on and the efforts to recover her stolen lock prove futile, this attitude begins to fade. She becomes harsh and so much to the point where the only thing that resembles the original girl is her outer beauty itself.
She has been on this quest to recover something that was lost. She goes through a process to reach an end. A point that was brought up in my group was how one can get so caught up in the fight and eventually lose sight of the original intent or see that the end wasn’t really worth everything that they gave up to get there. We put this also in terms of the enlightenment. If you set out on a journey to reach an end, and in the process you become so consumed with the process itself that you can never reach the end because all you want to do is the steps. If you become so consumed with questioning and doubting the things you think and believe, is it possible to be so used to not believing things that when you do find something you can stand on, that you pass it over because you are too used to questioning.
This to me seems to pose the question is it really worth putting everything on the line to systematically doubt when it is so risky to become a skeptic in the process?
Thoughts?
Kelsey Moorep.s. I commented on Samantha's post
As you said about how Belinda before her lock of hair got cut off, she was one loved by may. Everyone seemed to overlook any fault she may have had because of how beautiful she was. When she looses that lock of hair then she turns to be more mean and harsh. I think its interesting how so many people place such high thought and value on outside beauty, as if that is what makes a person a person. Beauty is deceitful, as it says in the Bible. so really, beauty is vain and not at all what makes a person an individual.
ReplyDeleteI think this view is still relevant today as well. In modern society we have put more value into outward appearance than inner qualties and personalities resulting in a society devoid of personal relationships. Instead of talking to a person we are content with their good looks, its sad and disappointing.
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