We studied the poem, The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope, in which a man cuts off a lock of hair from a woman's head and they have a big fight over it, and, in the end, the hair is immortalized in the stars by the Muse. The theme of this poem is what mighty contests rise from trivial things, and Pope is attacking the shallow values and misplaced priorites of the upper classes in his mock epic. Well-off people spend far too much time worrying about insignificant things and spend too much money on items that they don't neccessarily need, but purchase them just because they want them, such as Ipods, cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices. They spend money to redecorate and update their already lavishly furnished homes with expensive items that they won't actually use but are "just for show". People, both nowadays and in previous times, spend too much time and money worrying about all the wrong things; they should really be worrying about all the poverty-stricken and homeless and sick people, rather than the little lock of hair that was cut from their head that will, in time, grow back, or the cell phone that's twice as much money as any other but this one "looks nicer".
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