What is the theme of the r a p e of the lock? does this theme apply today? your answer should be at least 250 words.

This poem is a satirical poem in which a small incident is compared to the heroic world of gods, naturally in a satirical way. This poem is an example of a high Burlesque, and perhaps the most prominent example of a false epic. Poema highlights the vanity and idleness of English high society, a false moral society, of course, where it compares it with the epic world of gods, a society that unsuccessfully tries to reach the epic standards, dealing with minorities and stupidity. The small incident described in the poem is true, and refers to an attempt to turn a gesture that is not worthwhile, into something that is the subject of proving its own value at the expense of humiliation and restraint of others.

It is that, at a time in England, Catholics could not be in certain spheres of public and political life because of their Catholic determination, and therefore they had numerous limitations. Arabella Fermor and her suitor, Lord Petre, were both from aristocratic recusant Catholic families, at a time in England when, under such laws as the Test Act, all denominations except Anglicanism suffered legal restrictions and penalties. Arabella's suitor had cut off the lock of Arabella's hair without her permission, resulting in a break in relations between the two families. Although an insignificant incident, in order to promote a false epic, this incident has been inflated to a maximum. The very title of the poem does not refer to the familiar context, but at the root of the word that dates from the Latin language - rapere, which means to kidnap, to take away. Of course, for this purpose, the importance of the word is elevated to a negative context. The poet's writer wanted to merge two worlds, heroic and social, in a comical way.

For this poem it can be said that it is applicable today in those social circles and spheres that do not care about everyday existence, who do not care about global problems, but want to achieve self-reliance and the level of values ​​they consider to belong to them, of course not all.

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