The Dunciad Questions and Answers
The Dunciad
Discuss The Dunciad as a mock-heroic epic and a satire.
The Dunciad is a mock-heroic epic and a satire that mimics the structure of classical epics to trivialize its subject. It features Dulness, who crowns Theobald as her hero, and includes epic...
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How are the quoted lines from Alexander Pope's The Dunciad a parody of John Milton's account of Creation in Paradise...
Pope's lines parody Milton's Paradise Lost by depicting Dulness's chaotic creation of inept writers and literature. While Milton describes God's creation of order and beauty from chaos, Pope...
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How is science portrayed in The Dunciad? How would Pope's thinking apply today?
In "The Dunciad," science is depicted as a victim of dullness, symbolized by its position beneath the footstool of the new monarch, chained and powerless. Logic is gagged, wit banished, and rhetoric...