The satire used by Pope very closely matches today's same issues. In the story, everyone started freaking out over a single messed up haircut. That closely reflects today's society and how many people over react to small nuisances that happen to them. Pope was very sarcastic and funny about the situation. Making the characters be so over concerned with their beauty and pride they didn't realize how small what happened actually was. Instead the two families went to war all over a piece of hair. This is very much like today's society because people are very uptight and concerned about their public identity and how everyone sees them. The most ironic part about the comparison between the society 300 years ago and today's current society is the
