Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
Correct answer: D. Pope's The Rape of the Lock
- A. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
- B. Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- C. Behn's Oroonoko
- D. Pope's The Rape of the Lock
Explanation
Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” satirises the vanity, trivial quarrels and artificial social manners of fashionable eighteenth-century London. Its mock-heroic style deliberately treats a minor social incident as if it were an epic conflict.
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