Male Gaze The male gaze is a concept coined by feminist film critic Laura Mulvey. It refers to the way visual arts are structured around a masculine viewer. It describes the tendency in visual culture to depict the world and women from a masculine point of view and in terms of men's attitudes.

Male Gaze: A How To Guide! Women's bodies are displayed as an art form in which they must allow men to inspect their bodies for their own sexual pleasures. Traditionally the woman looks away and avoids eye contact with her male spectator, while he controls a direct gaze upon her body.

‘Beau Monde’ the ​people in a ​particular ​society who are ​rich and ​fashionable In 'The Rape of the Lock' Alexander Pope (1688-1744) employs a mock-epic style to satirise the 'beau-monde' (fashionable world, society of the elite) of eighteenth century England. 

‘Beau Monde’ – How does it shape meaning in the poem? The richness of the poem, however, reveals more than a straightforward satirical attack. Alongside the criticism we can detect Pope's fascination with, and perhaps admiration for, Belinda and the society in which she moves.

‘Beau Monde’ – How does it shape meaning in the poem? Pope himself was not part of the 'beau-monde'. He knew the families on which the poem is based but his own parents, though probably comfortably off, were not so rich or of the class one would have to be in to move in Belinda's circle.

‘Beau Monde’ – How does it shape meaning in the poem? He associated with learned men and poets, and there can have been little common ground between the company he kept at Will's Coffee House and those who frequented Hampton Court.